Kootenai Valley Head Start reports improvements

In a Aug. 21 news release, Kootenai Valley Head Start Director Peggy L. Rayome reports this year she has been busy writing supplemental funding requests and making program changes to improve the Plummer facility. In a little over a year, she states, the school has been awarded over $170,000 for improvements to the playground, classrooms, bathrooms, kitchen and the parking lot.

Last week, the school learned it would receive over $130,000 to repair the drainage, fix the base failure and resurface the parking lot at Plummer Center. The latter project will be completed Jan. 31, 2018 — before the end of the school’s fiscal year — and coordinated by Libby Public Schools Superintendent Craig Barringer.

Funding was also provided to upgrade plumbing in the adult and children’s bathrooms, replacing sinks and adding hands-free faucets. In addition, hot water tanks were installed and sinks, faucets and partial countertops were replaced in classrooms, while playground borders were replaced, a new shed for play equipment was purchased, and a new commercial dishwasher for the kitchen was installed this week.