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Michelle Pinon News Advertiser It was standing room only as students, parents, families and community members gathered for the official grand opening of Holden Rural Academy. An estimated 300 people attended the grand opening celebration which included tours, supper, speeches and silent auction. There was plenty of laughter and tears during the history making event. Dignitaries and elected officials were among the many faces in the crowd. Holden Rural Academy, (HRA) Superintendent Wes Oginski welcomed everyone before introducing Justin Ewasiuk, Chair of the Board of Directors. Ewasiuk had many people to thank and introduced board members who
were in attendance and acknowledged everybody who has contributed to the success of HRA. “The amount of work and dedication that has been put in by so many people has been incredible to get the school to where it is today. I think I can speak for the entire board when I say that when this started we didn’t realize how big a task this was going to be to get this project up and running. Seemingly endless paperwork and phone calls and meetings made it feel as though it would never happen. Yet we pressed on. I don’t know how many times me and Karla (Janzen) talked on the phone hoping all this work was not for nothing. Karla and Gail, (Alger) put in countless hours talking to the minister’s offices and filling out paperwork. We’d climb
over every little hurdle till we finally got our go ahead. The only issue was that it was in the middle of July and we still didn’t own the building or have any staff hired. The excitement was then quickly replaced by the realization that we had mere weeks to hire an entire staff and to finally secure the building. With 72 hours to spare before the first day of school was to start we had hired the rest of our staff and received the keys. There’s a lot of guests in this crowd tonight who came together on that weekend to help with the school clean and as ready for the students as could be in such a short time, and for all of you that did that I’d like to give you a
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