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Ia <br />ptanneu ns course or acnon, urawmg <br />red lines tin school maps anng <br />notes while Peacock gave u <br />tour. <br />During winter break, maintenance <br />employees assembled aew turnimre <br />and moved supplies. Assembled fur- <br />niture is placed in almost all of the <br />rooms, which also contain construc- <br />tion rubbish -empty cardboard <br />boxes, wood shavings. dust and <br />unidentifiable bits and pieces. <br />By opening day Jan. 2t, the build- <br />ing will be ready for classes,. with <br />few exceptions, Peacock said. <br />`"They're really pushing hard." <br />said Peacock of rho consttuction <br />workers. "Icon,.; a:~ :•. 'ay, and <br />it's amazing the amount of progress <br />I see from day [o day." <br />Leadership student Kelly Deder- <br />ing, who visited the school with the <br />leadership class in November. <br />agreed <br />• "[t's gone really well;'she said. <br />'"I'he majority will be done by the <br />Climax <br />frone page 5 <br />used successfully 20 years ago to <br />reclaim the Urad mine neaz Empire. <br />"That was done more than 20 <br />yeah ago with bio-solids from a <br />metro waste water plant," Hegeman <br />said. "It was certainly the best exam- <br />ple ofhigh altitude mine reclamation <br />using bio-solids, and it was moni- <br />[oredfairly intensively- By far it was <br />the most extensive in die state, and, <br />it's my understanding, nationally as <br />Assault <br />frorrt page 4 <br />attempting to go ahead with their <br />lives and put the pieces back togeth- <br />er:' said Brett Heckman: defense <br />anomey. "Obviously his happy <br />with the judge's decision.' <br />However, the ordeal may not be <br />over for.Krcuch. While the felony <br />charge was dismissed, the District' <br />Attorney's Office could bring mole <br />chazges in the case. Diem said. Pete <br />Michaelson, Eagle County district <br />attorney, said Wednesday he is coo- <br />sidering bringing a misdemeanor, <br />third-degree sexual assault chazge <br />against Kmuch. <br />Michaelson did not indicate when <br />We new charge may be filed. Heck- <br />man said in court Tuesday the matter <br />originally should have been chazged <br />as a misdemeanor. <br />Doting the hearing, the teen-age <br />girl's mother testified Kreuch had <br />been a family friend for more than <br />five years. They met through the Vail <br />Valley's German community, court <br />records show, and the woman [esti- <br />fied rhrnn~h n rirrman Inn^~u^° <br />ouuamgs. <br />The main tntryway opens to an <br />uncatpeted halh cement al! the way <br />to the secondary entryway -one of <br />..the places chat has yet to get carpe[, <br />.along with the halls leading to [he <br />athletic lockers and practice gym. <br />..The floor was laid in the main gym. <br />one of the areas that won't be acces- <br />Bible to tour participants, though the <br />doors will be open for viewing. The <br />floor will take more than a. week to <br />dry, and is off limits to walking until <br />rhea .. <br />.. A skylight illuminates the main <br />hallway, leading to a commons area <br />with a seating ?it lined with bricks <br />purchased by membeis of the com- <br />munity. The center brick will be <br />placed amp a time capsule doting the <br />school's formal dedication. <br />The two academic wings are lined <br />with forest green lockets and clean, <br />grey and black carpet flecked with <br />blue acid purple. At the old building <br />all of the school's 630 students share <br />well:' <br />While the-plan has been held up <br />for a number of reasons including <br />perttti[ting, Margolis sees its imple- <br />mentation as inevitable. <br />"[ think i[ has to work out because <br />we're looking for long-term salu- <br />pons, and so is Climax," Margolis <br />said, "They have a huge area [o <br />revegetate, and bio-sohds is the sen- <br />sibleway to do this, We can produce <br />interpreter. <br />' Themother said between Decem- <br />ber 1995 and May 1996, Kreuch <br />would volunteer to watch the girl <br />after school for two hoots while the <br />mother was at work. After about six <br />visits with Kreuch, the girl began m <br />act distant and no longer wanted m <br />spend time with Kreuch, the modter <br />said <br />- After nearly six months of <br />allegedly being molested by Krcach, <br />Ne girt told her mother, "I am <br />ashamed." ACCOrd1A$ [O Cesnmony, <br />the gvl tetrtained clothed doting the <br />alleged fondling. <br />The teen-agcy mld her mother that <br />when she. was with Kreuch, he had <br />touched her on the breasts and on the <br />crotch. The girl also said Kreuch told <br />her not to tell her mother about [he <br />incidents. <br />"She was nervous (when she <br />talked about the allegcd assaults)," <br />[he mother said. "She cried a lot and <br />repeated. 'Mama. I can't understand <br />whir C-it) aid •.• <br />nu of me classrooms are set up <br />f - '7" televiston monitors which <br />linked ro the teacher's per- <br />sonal compu[er.Students will be able <br />[o witness what the teacher is doing <br />on the television moniror. <br />The rooms are also-wired with <br />sensors that detect when someone <br />enters the room and automatically <br />rums on heat and light. <br />"We're reched ou[:'said student <br />Josh Johnson. <br />The pool. designed according to <br />Colorado High School Activities <br />Association regulations, contains <br />water and tiles designating swimmer <br />.lanes. Though the locker moms <br />azen't fully tiled yet, Peacock said <br />they would probably be done by the <br />time school starts. <br />An estimated $28.7 million was <br />budgeted for construction of the <br />192,000 square-foot building. Voters <br />passed a SSS.S million bond issue in <br />1995 to pay for the new high school <br />and two new elementary schools. <br />about 10.000 cubic yazds-per year, <br />which could go to Climax forever <br />and ever." <br />The firs[ truckloads of Summit <br />County bio-solids should be dumped <br />a[ the Robinson Pond [his spring, <br />Romig said. By the summer of 1998 <br />those passing by the tailing ponds <br />should catch a glimpse of green, <br />rather than 320 acres of ms[. <br />The mother said when she con- <br />Em~ted Kreuch about [he allegations, <br />he admitted he touched the g'al's <br />breasts, but denied any other contact <br />the mother also said Kreuch hung <br />his head and cried and asked the fam- <br />ily norto take the maner to police. <br />Kreitch told an investigator he <br />had touched the girl's breasts on one <br />. occasion az his home to fend off the <br />girl's advances. The defendant said <br />the girt was infatuated with him and <br />grabbed his crotch, and he. pushed <br />her away by placing his hands on her <br />' beasts. Krcuch said this was the only <br />physical contact lie had with the <br />- teen-ages <br />"(Kteuch) did admit m me he <br />touched (the girl's) breasts, and he <br />did tell me he thought it was a crime. <br />When 1 asked him why, he said <br />because he-was in a position of <br />trust." testified investigator leffrcy <br />Huff. with [he Eagle Coun[v Sher- <br />... ~...__....-. - <br /> <br /> <br />PBE,_rL- <br />' .- <br />' p.9y-pF <br />Lit ~:: a <br />