{"id":11031,"date":"2019-06-11T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=11031"},"modified":"2019-06-10T00:08:26","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T05:08:26","slug":"elma-school-to-be-demolished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/06\/elma-school-to-be-demolished\/","title":{"rendered":"Elma school to be demolished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Third of three blog posts related to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iowadnr.gov\/About-DNR\/DNR-News-Releases\/ArticleID\/2462\/DNR-Derelict-Building-Grant-Program-makes-awards-to-13-rural-communities\">May 23 DNR press release.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11032\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/elmaschool3.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/elmaschool3.jpg 550w, https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/elmaschool3-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>August 4, 2015:<\/strong> The former Elma Elementary School.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Five years ago the Howard-Winneshiek School District voted to <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/06\/bonus-e-is-for-elma\/\">close its attendance center in Elma<\/a>, the second of three sites outside of Cresco that were shuttered in a short span of time. The building was given to the city.<\/p>\n<p>The city has done what it can to make use of it, but ultimately decided that the best course of action was to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elmaia.com\/business-directory\/organizations\/elma-community-complex-project\">tear down the original two-story building<\/a> while keeping the gymnasium and day-care addition. The gym will become the town library and a multi-purpose room. A small clinic will be built nearby.<\/p>\n<p>Elma got a DNR grant for asbestos abatement (always the asbestos abatement) and &#8220;deconstruction&#8221; to renovate and build on the site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Third of three blog posts related to a May 23 DNR press release. August 4, 2015: The former Elma Elementary School. Five years ago the Howard-Winneshiek School District voted to close its attendance center in Elma, the second of three &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/06\/elma-school-to-be-demolished\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11033,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11031\/revisions\/11033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}