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HomeMy WebLinkAboutWINGSHADOW, 1225 REDWOOD STREET - PDP/FDP - 30-02A - MEDIA -Future home enables Frontier to expand its youth programs By STACY NICK 11/1 1/6:]. cost another $500,000, StacyNick@coloradoan.com are expected to begin After years of talking this week as soon as the about moving Frontier group has the green light High School to a larger from the city of Fort location, the dream will Collins, said Annette soon become a reality. Zacharias -Piper, Wing - In early February, shadow development di- Wingshadow, a Fort rector. Funding for the Collins organization ded- school came from dona- icated to at -risk youths, tions and grants. is relocating the school, The 21,000-square- now housed at First foot site is perfect, Christian Church, 2700 Zacharias -Piper said. S. Lemay Ave., to the for- "It was affordable, but mer Diamond Crest As- it also has lots of poten- sisted Living Home, 1225 tial," she said. "The lay - Redwood St. out makes it a facility The facility was pur- where we can do it all — chased for $1 million, and the school, the shelter renovations, which will and the child-care center — on the same site but independent of each oth- er at same time." In addition to increas- ing the student capacity from 65 to 110, Frontier's child-care center will in- crease from 16 to 40 chil- dren and the new crisis center also will open. The center will act as a temporary shelter for teens who need help, something that has sore- ly been lacking in the community, said Steve Bolton, who co-founded Wingshadow with his wife, Shirley. See FRONTIER/Page B4 Frontier Continued from Page Bl SHARING CHORES: Frontier High School students, from left, Nicole Lombardo, 17, Kas- sandra Cano, 17, and Lindsey Carlson, 16, work in the kitchen at the school's future home at 1225 Redwood St. The school hopes to be completely moved in by February. "We have (homeless) facili- ties for families and adults but this will be the fast just for teens," he said. Youths will be able to stay at the shelter, which has beds for 12 boys and six girls, for as long as 90 days, Bolton said. "Some kids have an argument with parents and just need a place to stay overnight to cool off," he said. "Others have been put out by their parents." The shelter will be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week with an on -duty therapist and a consulting psychiatrist, Bolton said. The school, which has been bursting at the seams for years, also will add two grades — sev- enth and eighth — to its current ninth through 12th grade pro- iiftilesfta? To find out more about Frontier High School's new facility, the community is in- vited to attend weekly tours of the school. Each week for an indefinite period of time, Wingshadow will provide a tour of the new facility, locat- ed at 1225 Redwood St., at 8 a.m. Thursdays. Registration for the free tour is not necessary. For more information, call An- nette Zacharias -Piper at 419- 3252. gram. "It just amazes me to see this is happening," Bolton said. "The reason is because of the support we've had here and the people who work with us. It's much greater than anything Shirley or I could have done by ourselves:'