On the left, that’s me with Percy. It’s part of my ever expanding corporate mascot photography catalog. Percy is the mascot of the Primrose School. Eden Prairie doesn’t currently have a Primrose School, but we will have one, with luck and good weather, in early January 2007. The Primrose School is a new nursery school/childcare center being developed by Ben and Lisa Adams.
That’s Ben with the giant novelty check in the photo on the right. Behind Ben is the construction site that will soon be the Primrose School. It’s near the intersection of Highway 5 and County Road 4, right behind the Super America. At the podium is Ben’s mother, Betsy Adams. In addition to being chair of the City’s Heritage Preservation Commission, Betsy is also leading the charge of those concerned with saving the Anderson School. The Anderson School is one of the one room schoolhouses that served Eden Prairie kids 100 years ago. There is a community initiative right now to restore the Anderson School and then give it to the Eden Prairie School District to serve as an educational facility to acquaint the kids of the future with how education has evolved in this community. Betsy is shown behind the podium in this photo because she is accepting a check (of the large novelty variety) for $2,000 contribution from her son for the Anderson School Fund. A very nice gesture for a son to make for his mom.
Betsy is working very hard on this quest to restore the Anderson School. She and her fellow committee members are going to raise almost $200,000 for this project. She has also been working hard at navigating the City and the School District organizations to help make sure that once restored the school could be used for the intended purpose. It’s a noble effort. I think that it will be a success.
