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AT WORK — Working on the Santa house project are Jay Ritter, left, and Grant McGlothin. Photo provided by Rochester High School.
RHS students building Santa a new house By LEAH SANDER Staff Writer
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It’s still awhile before Santa will be coming to town in Fulton County. Yet when he does, it will be to a new house at the Fulton County Courthouse in Rochester. Rochester High School students in civil construction teacher Logan Young’s class started building the 10-foot by 12-foot building in September. Once finished, it will have a gingerbread house design with
two candy canes on either side of the front door. Young said students should be done with the house soon. Kids generally work on the house in the mornings on every school day. “Most of them are freshmen and sophomores,” he said of students in the class. Young said the project is “teaching (students) more or less how to build a barn, just giving them a general perspective.” “We’re going to do some electricity work in it, so we’ll get a crash course on that,” he added. “I’m wiring it for just a little heater and some lights.” Young said kids in his precision machining class would make the candy canes for the home out of metal. He said he tried to purchase materials locally, getting wood from Odell Lumber and Supply in Rochester and metal from Ramco Supply in Rochester. It’s Rochester Downtown Partnership that oversees Santa’s visits to Rochester. RDP Executive Director Julie
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SANTA’S NEW HOME — Rochester High School students in Logan Young’s civil construction class are building Santa a new home for kids to visit him at in Rochester at the Fulton County Courthouse. Shown working on the project recently is Owen Lett. Photo provided by Rochester High School.
FOR SANTA — Students helping build Santa’s new home include from left Jacob Ellinger, Max Good and Brevin Nicholson. Photo provided by Rochester High School. Shambarger said the students were “doing a great job” with the project, which she called a “good
project for the kids to invest in their community.” Shambarger said she hopes
the new Santa house “continues on the decades of holiday spirit” in the county.
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