Sentences with phrase «athletic fields»

The district needs to look for a new location for athletic fields because of plans to build a $ 10 million recreation center at the current site.

Her many responsibilities include reservation of athletic fields, park / picnic rentals, special events, partner and volunteer administration, and training of staff in youth sports.

It has no outdoor athletic fields or facilities on its campus, despite the fact that 65 percent of its student body participates in sports and competes at a highly competitive level.

Others worry that athletic fields run by the park district might not be available for school events.

Responding to the complaints, the legislature voted unanimously last week to allow nonprofit youth, senior and other charitable organizations to use county athletic fields without charge.

Then we stepped outside to a circular track set up on an adjacent athletic field.

The park board agreed the donated land should be suitable for athletic fields, a playground and parking.

It will allow the Park District to hold programs on athletic fields owned by the school district.

The number of athletic fields in New Lenox is «consistent with national and state standards,» Doede said, noting that the Park District has 7.5 acres of land per 1,000 residents, compared with the national average of 1 acre per 1,000.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS — State Rep. Suzanne Bassi (R - Palatine) this week announced a $ 50,000 legislative grant to the Arlington Heights Park District to improve grading and drainage of athletic fields at Rand - Berkley Park, Waverly Road and Brookwood Drive, in the north part of the village.

The Orland Park Recreation Department is building a neighborhood park with athletic fields and playground equipment, «right here within walking distance,» he said.

Homeowners surrounding the Kelley Park athletic field development are floating a proposal to cut the number of lighted fields from six to three.

In the last five years, JJR has built athletic fields for Northwestern University, the University of Illinois, the University of Michigan, the Village of Vernon Hills and the Glenview Park District.

The proposed complex would be nearly three times as large as the district «s current athletic field complex near Biesterfield Road and Wellington Avenue.

BOLTON LANDING An effort spanning two decades to establish a new athletic field for Bolton Central School — at times contentious — has now concluded.

BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES While the Town of Orangetown wrestles over how to make its two public golf courses profitable the Town Board decided last week to proceed with another recreational project — creating new soccer and other athletic fields on a portion of the vacant former Rockland Psychiatric Center campus -LSB-...]

A park district committee listened for more than an hour this week as members of the Plumwood Homeowners Association explained why they do n`t want the 10.5 - acre park, including lighted athletic fields, built at the southeast corner of Plum Grove Road and Thacker Street, near Conant High School.

A commission that recommends burying the Children's Museum in a sacrosanct locale such as Grant Park won't blink at putting one more athletic field on Lincoln Park land that lacks the same special legal protections.

At 10:30 a.m., the state Department of Agriculture and Markets joins Broome - Tioga BOCES to kick off the very first locally sourced NY Thursdays lunch program in upstate, Tioga Central School District Athletic Field, 27 Fifth Ave., Tioga Center.

The facility could include athletic fields, a recreation building, a skating rink, an outdoor pool, an equestrian center, a model farm and a nursery.

Managed all staff and oversaw all budgeting constraints, game day operations and completion of athletic field maintenance objectives.

The university this spring finished a pilot project testing the merits of sterilizing and releasing rabbits and, shortly afterward, decided to start killing rabbits (lethal injection) around athletic fields where their burrows pose a tripping hazard.

The potential relocation of Dozier Field to the present site of Treasure Mountain Junior High, where it could be joined by an indoor athletic field house, was also a thorny issue Tuesday.

Now the acquisition and demolition of the deteriorating property and the transformation of its 25 acres into athletic fields figure prominently in the $ 18.7 million in projects the Glen Ellyn Park District has decided to in the November election ask residents to finance through a tax - rate increase.

Additionally, homeowners proposed that remaining money left over from the original plan for six lighted fields be used to improve athletic field lights at Blackhawk Park.

Not High School where Danny traded things like athletic fields for his kids starting positions.

Carl Doerr, a Riverview resident and a former village manager, presented the petition to the park commissioners, asking them to take a closer look at a village ordinance that limits the use of athletic fields across from their homes.

Once construction is complete, the existing school will be demolished, and the space will be used for multi-use athletic field and an additional practice field.

For the work, Quevedo applied colored pieces of vinyl tape to the museum's atrium floor in the shapes of athletic field boundary lines.

The contribution is part of the Park District's «Take the Field» initiative, which seeks to build artificial turf athletic fields in «underserved and geographically diverse Chicago parks.»

This tool creates a perfect athletic field.

«This is an ideal location, with high visibility on a well - trafficked street, proximity to the area's key sports venues, situation in the heart of a market with many professional teams, and exposure to a community dotted with dozens of youth soccer, lacrosse, baseball, and other athletic fields regularly filled with our core young - family customers.

When the city expanded the school in 1941 onto what had once been a slag heap, a complex of athletic fields girdled by cottonwoods and elms bloomed in the floodplain of the Rio Grande.

The Park Board has agreed to ask for 8 or 9 acres, with the remainder in cash, to develop athletic fields, a playground and off - street parking space.

Besides two school buildings — one for primary grades and one for intermediate grades — the site will contain athletic fields and playgrounds.

Park District Director Bill McCollum said the site will be similar to those at Bentley and Tyler Schools, where the buildings border athletic fields.

The Elk Grove Village Park District is considering 23 acres of land near Arlington Heights Road and Devon Avenue in Du Page County as the site for a major athletic field complex.

It also would limit the Park District to one scoreboard per athletic field and bar advertising and sound devices on scoreboards.

Village planner Roberta Grill said the public hearing was called because of a rezoning request and a variance needed to allow 70 - foot light towers on the proposed athletic fields.

Owned by the River Forest Park District since April, the property is bounded by Priory Estates, a new subdivision of single - family homes; Concordia University; and existing athletic fields used by Fenwick High School in Oak Park.

He was also appointed to the board of the Safer Athletic Field Environments Foundation at the meeting.

It's also the source of state money recommended by Central New York lawmakers to help build youth athletic fields in DeWitt, fix water problems in Tully, save the ice rink at Meacham Park in Syracuse, build a better ice rink for the Syracuse Crunch, and make improvements to the Kallet Civic Center in Oneida.

In an interview with the Daily News on Tuesday, Mario Cuomo, 81, pointed out that the E. 91 St. site of the proposed waste transfer station is in a densely populated residential neighborhood and next to Asphalt Green, a popular athletic field.

While the playground and full - sized athletic field at East 96th Street and Second Avenue has traditionally been considered a playground under the jurisdiction of the city Education Department, the Cuomo administration, in doing research on the matter, found evidence that it was actually a park and should be governed by the city Parks Department.

Danforth Middle School - $ 18.5 million - Partial renovations include asbestos abatement, new electrical, mechanical and plumbing systems, Project Lead the Way spaces, gymnasium renovations, athletic field improvements, bathroom renovations, misc.

The opening of this field adds onto the number of athletic fields open to all residents of Westchester County and is a very welcome addition in particular to this southern area of the county that has too few fields and too little open space.»