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Sports
St. James School kicks money
into Highway 8 soccer field
By Susan Hundertmark
Expositor Editor
After spending $4,000 on
six new soccer nets and
posts, a dozen new- shade
trees and some benches, the
St. James school council has
created more recreational
space for its junior and
senior students and two local
soccer leagues,
Principal Fran Craig said
the school council wanted to
give St. James students an
alternative to playing on the
blacktop on the school
ground and decided this year
to raise money towards the
large playing field owned by
the Huron Perth Catholic
District School Board on
Highway 8, a block away
from the school.
After a survey of the
students, the council was
told the students wanted
"soccer, soccer and more
soccer" on the field, which
has been empty for years.
Craig and former Huron
East recreation director
Graham Nesbitt had applied
for Trillium Foundation
funding more than a year
ago to launch a $20,000
project to dig up and level
the field for soccer but were
turned down.
While the fields still need
to be levelled, Craig said the
decision was made to go
ahead with the soccer nets.
"We did the best we
could," she said.
Parent volunteer Brian
Melady has done a lot of the
work researching and
installing the nets. As a .
member of the St. Columban
soccer league, he's also
secured the school board's
permission to allow minor
soccer in St. Columban and
Seaforth to use the fields.
"After school's out in
June, it would be a shame to
see the fields sit empty," he
said, adding that each league
will have access to the field
three nights a week.
Melady added that with
both leagues getting so big,
they were running out of
fields and nights to play. He
said close to 300 kids are
registered to play in the St.
Columban league alone.
And, before the nets were
installed older St. James
students had no grassed area
in which to play sports.
"Before the soccer nets
were there, the kids just ran
around in an empty field.
One of the simplest things
we could do was provide
nets," he said.
Melady said he'd like to
take a look at the Trillium
application and proceed with
a second grant request to
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Goalie Ben Van Dieten, Grade
stop a kick from classmate
revonated soccer field on Highw
improve the field.
"The field's not in great
shape - I think it used to
hold an old stockyard. And.
we didn't do a lot of
landscaping. It would be
nice to make it a more
manicured soccer field," he
said.
"They (Craig and Nesbitt)
did a lot of work on the first
grant request and it would be
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a shame to see all the work
on the first quote go down
the tube," said Melady.
In the meantime. St. James
has begun an intramural
soccer league for students at
lunchtime on the new field.
Two tetherhalls will also
he installed at the north end
of the field for students who
don't want to play soccer.
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Susan Hundertmark photos
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Above, Ben Shepherd, of Seaforth, races after the ball against
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ball and starts to maneuver it out of his end of the field in the
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