You saw teachers head into the Sevastopol School District building on Monday to prepare for the future school year, but you’re invited to honor its past beginning next Monday. The district is hosting a special Labor Day celebration from 1 to 3 p.m. in front of the school’s Ripp Road/Pioneer Way entrance in the student parking lot. While the free food and drinks might provide some incentive, the district will place a bigger emphasis on its past. In addition to a special retrospective video playing, National Honor Society students will provide tours of the building, and district officials are asking alumni to record their Sevastopol memories to be shared throughout the year. District Superintendent Kyle Luedtke has been at the helm for seven years and he says it was the conversations he had with alumni during the renovation project that gave him a greater appreciation for the building he works in daily.

Monday’s celebration will also feature comments from Luedtke, former superintendent Joe McMahon, and alumni Mike Madden and Heather Fellner-Spetz. Luedtke added that this will be the first of many events the district will put on to celebrate its centennial year.