Rigby High to get new Field House thanks to donation
RIGBY, Idaho (KIFI) – Jefferson School District 251 announced a new Field House will be built for Rigby High School. thanks to a generous donation from the Broulim family.
The school district made the announcement in a news release on Wednesday morning.
"Well, any opportunity for kids to be involved is important. And it doesn't matter if it's sports, if it's music, if it's debate, whatever it is. Kids need to be connected. And this is just one more way we can help kids be connected and in a positive environment and in a great facility," said Chad Martin Superintendent for Jefferson School District 251.
A price value was not given for the new facility or what would be included in the field house.
The announcement said the facility would be an incredible asset to Rigby High School’s sports program and the entire Rigby community.
Broulim's came up with the idea for a new field house at Rigby High School.
They contacted the school district and have been working out the plans for their complex for the last few months.
Broulims is one of the district's main contributors and this is their biggest donation yet.
“Rigby holds a special place in our hearts,” Dick Broulim said in the release. “Our whole family grew up here and graduated from Rigby High School, and we dearly love this community. Main Street Rigby was the location of the first Broulim’s grocery store, opened by my mom and dad over 102 years ago. We want to give back to the community that has supported us for so long. It is our hope that this donation will benefit this current generation and many generations to come.”
The new facility will help with spring sports.
Especially when there is still snow on the ground and freezing temperatures.
Superintendent Chad Martin says this will be a big help.
"We're just excited to provide more opportunities for kids. We're excited to be able to have more space for P.E. classes. We're excited to be able to have our baseball team and our track team and our tennis team have a facility they can use rather than trying to use a gym that's very small. And we have, you know, hundreds of kids trying to use it. They have a facility that meets their needs and to just keep them involved, the more we can keep kids involved, the more successful they're going to be," said Martin.
The name of the new sports complex is still being worked on.
The new field house will be located south of the district office.
Construction will begin in the coming months they said.
Last week we reported Jefferson School District 251 canceled school due to an attack on its computer network.
Students have returned to school but they are still having some issues with their cybersecurity.
The superintendent gave us the following update.
"It's not something that fixes overnight, but we're learning a lot and at this point we can find no evidence of any student or staff data that's been taken. It just locked at this point. So we're working through it, but we are making progress. We're starting to get some people back up and online, so we're excited about that, " said Martin.
The school district is working with national cybersecurity consultants to help resolve the attack.
