Erin’s House for Grieving Children plans to open The Wing – an expansion to include young adults – in November, the nonprofit’s executive director said at the groundbreaking ceremony Friday.
Pushing past a few complications inflicted by a week of sub-zero Iowa temperatures, work on the $3-million upper-level renovation to P.H. Kuyper Gymnasium is speeding towards an April completion. It’s the third piece of the $18-million Forever Dutch initiative for the building’s renovation and expansion.
According to Vice President for Advancement Sunny Eighmy, 2,712 Central alumni and friends provided support, the most donors ever for a college project. Major demolition work is completed with the exception of a couple more difficult areas to access, according to Director of Facilities Maintenance Craig Roose, who is helping oversee the renovation.