FORT MYERS, Fla. — Franklin Park Elementary is full of history, and since I’ve been your Fort Myers Community Correspondent, I’ve learned this school means a lot to our neighbors.
So I was there as folks from various companies cheered and then rolled up their sleeves to install all the equipment as we prepared for the first day of school in the brand-new building.
WATCH the work volunteers put in to help get a new Franklin Park Elementary ready for the new school year:
GET READY: Volunteers roll up sleeves to prepare new Ft Myers school for first day
Some of them thought about all their memories of this historic school, which has been in the neighborhood since 1958.
“There were two schools that African Americans could attend,” says Greta Stebbins Campbell. “None of the other schools, could they attend.”
Stebbins-Campbell went to Dunbar Elementary, but her family has ties …