FULLERTON : Rosary High Plans Groundbreaking
Rosary High School plans a ground-breaking ceremony at 1:30 p.m. Sunday for a $1.5-million gymnasium and multipurpose room on the east side of its school grounds.
The gymnasium will allow the Catholic girls school to move basketball and other sports indoors and provide space for all of the school’s 546 students to attend assemblies and rallies at once.
Previously, the school had to hold two assemblies for every event because its largest building couldn’t hold all the students.
The City Council voted last October to approve the 14,000-square-foot gymnasium, despite hearing complaints from about 12 residents who said the building would make traffic and parking problems in the neighborhood even worse.
Money for the gymnasium was raised by means of a $500,000 grant from the Diocese of Orange, a “substantial” donation from fast-food magnate Carl N. Karcher and donations by parents of current and former students, said Carol Krebs, the school’s development director.
The groundbreaking ceremony will be attended by Bishop Norman P. McFarland and other church and school officials, Krebs said. Construction is scheduled to begin in June and be completed in December, she said.
Rosary High School is at Acacia Avenue and Memory Lane.
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