L-P celebrates official opening of Eureka Savings Bank Agriculture Center

La Salle-Peru Township High School officially celebrated its new agriculture center Thursday evening, marking a building students have been learning in since August and a program that has grown from roughly 30 students to 102 in less than a year.The grand opening of the Eureka Savings Bank Agriculture Center drew donors, school leaders and community members for student-led tours, speeches and the presentation of wooden tokens of appreciation to the donors whose names now mark spaces throughout the two-story building.“We are just over three months into using this building, and we intentionally held off on this formal opening, because we recognize the potential that represents student learning and leadership,” L-P Superintendent Clayton Theisinger said.Theisinger pointed to what students have already done with the space, including designing and 3D-printing brackets to fix computers mounted behind the building’s TVs, and speaking at a La Salle City Council meeting in support of the specia