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<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
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<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
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<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-
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