IOLA, Texas — Iola ISD is looking to expand but this past May, a bond failed that would support new development for the schools in the area.
All Solar Texas LLC and Lone Star Roof Systems are both local businesses here in the Brazos Valley supporting the district’s mission to make upgrades as the school year continues.
“With Iola, we’ve seen a lot of influx, new people coming in, new students, new families, and so the school just needs to expand,” said All Solar Texas LLC owner Will Arvance. “It needs to grow and support the new student body that’s going to be coming in as College Station kind of grows and Iola gets some of that overflow.”
Arvance has a solar company here in College Station and his family lives in Iola.
“We’re all taxpayers locally, but we thought, since we’re local small businesses, our kids go to Iola, our families live in Iola, what better opportunity for us to give back to the community that supports us than to throw in with that,” said Arvance.
Arvance said this was a way for him and Lone Star Roof Systems to give back to the community that supports them.
“Our goal is to be able to give back 50 thousand dollars,” said Luke Bradicich, owner of Lone Star Roof Systems. “The school is going to be able to use it for any necessary kind of upgrades or services that they deem necessary just to help our kids and better our education with the kids.”
Iola ISD superintendent Jeff Dyer said the funds raised can help with security-based items.
“We are a district that’s all on one city block and it’s very open,” said Dyer. “We would like to upgrade things like cameras. We would like to have a keyless entry.
Dyer said having the two local businesses come together and support the school district means the most.
“They’re local companies,” said Dyer. “They care about our schools, and they want to give back. I think in our society, giving back now is a big deal because a lot of the time, we have a ‘me’ society and I like to see people say ‘education benefited me. I’m going to give back to education.”
Dyer looks at it as ‘paying it forward.’
“I like to say it as ‘pay it forward’ because when we vote on it, kids don’t benefit from that vote until three to four years later,” said Dyer. “You kind of pay it forward every year or every bond because you don’t see immediate results.”
If you are interested in supporting Iola ISD and its development projects, you can learn more here:
Lone Star Roof Systems:
Roofing Contractors in College Station, TX (lonestarroofsystems.com)
All Solar Texas, LLC:
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