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Makeover of Field
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Imagine this. The year is 2005 and the Glendale Community College football team doesn’t have to take a bus to play home games at Glendale High anymore. A standing room only crowd greets the Vaqueros as they sprint onto the field for the first home game on campus in the school’s history. A band plays, the public address announcer asks everyone to stand for the national anthem, and the brand new $100,000 scoreboard spells out “Go Vaqueros’’ on its message board on the northwest side of the field. Resplendent with cardinal and gold lights, the scoreboard is also used for the men’s and women’s soccer games in the fall as well as for track and field meets in the spring. Re-winding to present day 2004, the scenario for this vision is not so hard to imagine now that construction has begun in earnest on the athletic field. Work has already begun on the field, starting with the installation of a state-of-the-art lighting system, and will conclude before graduation in June of 2005 with the installation of a renovated synthetic turf playing surface and all-weather track. The bleacher area will also be renovated but not expanded at this time. The funding for the field renovation came from the $98 million Measure G bond initiative that was passed by Glendale voters in 2002. Funding must be raised privately for the $100,000 scoreboard and a planned $250,000 athletic endowment, which will support maintenance and supplies for the field and other needs of the athletic department. Plans will be announced shortly about the capital campaign that is being developed to raise funds for these projects, and there will be major announcements regarding the naming of the field and major donors connected to this project. Please call the Foundation at ext. 5199 if you have any questions. & |
