NORTHVIEW DEVELOPMENTAL SERV history

A widespread flood in 1903 changed the Big Blue River channel to form a loop further east.

Northview Park, with a swimming pool, picnic shelter and baseball field, was constructed in 1956.

Northview Elementary School next door was finished in 1957 and has expanded several times since.

By 1976, two years after the government passed the Developmental Services Act, Ontario operated 16 institutions, or facilities as they came to be called.

The first residential group home also opened in 1979 and transportation programs within the Roaring Fork Valley were initiated.

Northview Elementary School next door was finished in 1957 and has expanded several times since. It was designated a National Blue Ribbon School in 1987-88, the first in Manhattan to achieve that honor.

Another expansion occurred n 1989, when residential and vocational services were expanded to the Eagle/Vail area.

By 1990, the State Department of Education mandated that all children between the ages of 3 – 5 receive preschool services through the public school.

In 1993 widespread flooding forced Tuttle Creek Dam engineers to open its Spillway gates, which caused the Big Blue River to overrun our southeast neighborhoods for several months, and many homes were damaged.

Then in 1998 a team of Northview residents began to lobby the city to help with the lack of parks for our many children.