As the sun peaks into view, lighting and warming the air, school buses pull to a stop behind concrete barriers stationed between a section of Cottom Drive and the Dillon School District #10 campus.
Schoolchildren get off the buses and head through a new opening in the fence by the sidewalk in front of the SD #10 campus, and then toward their respective schools.
On the other side of the concrete Jersey barriers, traffic flows with motorists, most of them parents dropping their kids off for school. Many smile and wave.