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School Set to Rebuild Quake-Damaged Gym

Times staff and wire reports

More than seven years after the Northridge earthquake badly damaged the gymnasium at Kennedy High School, the Granada Hills campus will finally get a new $7-million gym paid for by the federal government, but it will not be ready for another 10 months.

Hundreds of students joined teachers, parents and district officials in a groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday on the dirt field that will eventually be occupied by the state-of-the-art gym.

The Granada Hills campus was among Los Angeles Unified’s hardest hit schools in the 1994 earthquake. A destroyed three-story structure that housed administrative offices and classrooms was replaced with two buildings in 1998 at a cost of $7 million to the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

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