Wish granted: Apple Bowl will be graduation location
Graduation will be taking place at the Apple Bowl, after deliberation by the Wenatchee School Board last night.
“We are planning on going full speed ahead with graduation at the Apple Bowl,” Assistant Superintendent Jon DeJong said.
However accommodations to the new turf field would have to be made. To protect the turf, an estimate of seven to $16,000 dollars would need to be spent to purchase a tarp that would cover the field, according to Wenatchee School Principal Eric Anderson. An additional $25,000 would also be spent on new “loop chairs” as another precaution.
“We want to make sure nothing is protruding into the turf,” senior class adviser Brandon Harle said.
A considerably large downside would include the restraint against high-heels on the turf, along with not being able to swarm the field and take photos with the newly graduates.
“There will be some restrictions on what girls can wear… that’s not only for the field, that’s for safety, period,” DeJong said. “We have contacts in districts who do this and are doing this. We are confident students will be cooperative and do what it takes to have the ceremony there.”
“There will be some restrictions on what girls can wear… that’s not only for the field, that’s for safety, period,” DeJong said. “We have contacts in districts who do this and are doing this. We are confident students will be cooperative and do what it takes to have the ceremony there.”
Harle said that the ceremony would take place at the Apple Bowl “rain or shine.”
Staff at Wenatchee High School conducted a survey to determine where the majority of seniors wanted to graduate.
“Approximately 90 percent of students decided they wanted to graduate at the Apple Bowl,” Harle said.
Tony Green • Nov 9, 2015 at 4:10 pm
Is this another example of the cost saving that comes with artificial turf? Since the turf will be nearly one-year-old by then, and as there have likely been some technological improvements in that time, let’s replace the current turf with purple turf with gold lines, while we’re at it. BTW, has there been any safety stats comparison regarding injuries on artificial turf this season verses natural turf?