Wednesday, October 28, 2015

[UPDATE] Want to do your part to help save the historic Boynton Beach High School?

[Note The Palm Beach Post is experiencing technical difficulties with their website and it's difficult to find articles online. The reporter Alexandra Seltzer has a new article today in the print edition (10/28) with the latest: the structure is too dangerous to let volunteers in to help clean up the inside of the building. Their is no mention of the effort to move structures from Riviera Beach but possibly we'll get more information on that later.]

The clock is ticking to save the historic Boynton Beach High School from demolition. Those who support saving the structure were given four months to come up with a solution to save the building and how to fund the effort. By my calculation, Wednesday, December 16th (49 days from today, 10/28) is that deadline. It was discovered recently that the foundation of the structure is in worse shape than first thought; that makes the hill a little steeper to climb and all of our thoughts are with them and wish them the best.

It's interesting to note that no one is using the 'newly-renovated' Lake Worth Casino as an example any longer on how to 'save' a historic structure. The word got out: the former Casino building wasn't saved—it was 94% demolished.

Here is the latest news [previous article from 9/22] from Alexandra Seltzer about the high school. A group started a Go Fund Me account to help save the structure from demolition but they're not doing so well in the money-raising effort. Their last donation was well over a month ago:
The GoFundMe account is now up to $2,617.
If you would like to help here is the contact information for Save Boynton High School:
561-313-5185