Vintage Valdez, 8, left, shoots her arrow while learning about archery Monday during a Y summer day camp at the former Mary Blair Elementary School in Loveland. (Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)
Mary Blair Elementary school closed at the end of the last school year, and in August its students will begin attending Peakview Academy at Conrad Ball, the Thompson School District’s new prekindergarten through eighth grade school nearby.
But the building isn’t going away, even if it no longer hosts students.
Instead, the school is being repurposed into Loveland’s first YMCA — and operations will begin this fall.
The Y has operated in Loveland schools over the summer for several years, so its summer programs have continued uninterrupted. Child care, much of it benefiting from Colorado’s new Universal Preschool program, will begin in August, and…
