Poplar Bluff, Missouri - The public is invited to attend a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony to celebrate the completion of the FEMA safe room and science classroom addition at Poplar Bluff Junior High School, the first of several campus-wide expansion projects under the R-I district buildings plan made possible by the passage of the historic levy in April 2014.

Who: Poplar Bluff Board of Education, Long-Range Planning Committee, Citizens’ Advisory Council, Committee for Our Kids’ Future, Dille and Traxel Architects, Zoellner Construction, Poplar Bluff Chamber of Commerce

When: 9 a.m. Thursday, April 7

Where: Poplar Bluff Junior High FEMA Building, 550 N. Westwood Blvd., Poplar Bluff, MO 63901

Construction photo album: https://goo.gl/bOIXrH

FEMA grant: http://www.poplarbluffschools.net/admin/pbjhs-safe-room/

Groundbreaking: http://www.poplarbluffschools.net/admin/pbjhs-groundbreaking/

Article and photo submitted by Tim Krakowiak, Communications/Marketing Coordinator at Poplar Bluff Schools