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PINE GROVE — Borough residents and local sports coaches want to get the ball rolling on a project to turn 67 acres of unused land into a multi-field recreation park.
Lynne Umbenhauer, councilwoman and member of the Sports and Fitness Committee, said Monday 20 to 25 people attended a special meeting March 27 to discuss to project.
The committee was formed in March to head the park on the borough-owned land along Route 443 in Pleasant Valley.
“We got great response and we found that there is a dire need of extra fields for games, for practices,” Umbenhauer said. “There’s more kids now than ever.”
Volunteers will start by creating parking space so people can access one softball field already on the land, she said, adding that volunteers will clear brush to make the spaces.
“They want to start using it again as soon as possible but they have to address the parking,” Umbenhauer said. “That one field that is there now will be tied into everything else.”
The existing field fell out of use because of the parking situation, she said, adding people parked along Route 443 and created an unsafe condition.
Cleanup work also needs to be done at the site, she said.
County President Timothy Peters announced at the March 13 meeting the creation of the Sports and Fitness Committee to create a recreation area using grants, community help and business help. He said there was enough room on the land to make three to eight soccer or football fields, four softball fields, a baseball field, a possible community center, a playground and a possible miniature golf area.
Umbenhauer said since the March 27 meeting produced a favorable community response, the borough will discuss at the April 10 meeting hiring a project engineer to draw up a plan for the land.
“You always have the ones that say, ‘Don’t you think we have enough?’ Or ‘Where’s the money gong to come from?’ But it’s not going to come from tax dollars,” she said.
Umbenhauer reiterated Peters’ March 13 comment that the project would be completed through volunteerism and grants.
Peters did not return phone calls Tuesday for comment.
“It’s going to be mainly on the volunteers’ head,” Umbenhauer said. “If they really want this, if they feel there’s need, then they’re going to have to help ... It’s going to take a long time to get it done and it’s going to be done in phases.”
http://www.republicanherald.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19444897&BRD=2626&PAG=461&dept_id=532624&rfi=6
Thought I Knew everything :P
I am Not aware of this Field
If it is along 443 as stated.
Anyone from The Pine Grove area Fill me In ?
Lynne Umbenhauer, councilwoman and member of the Sports and Fitness Committee, said Monday 20 to 25 people attended a special meeting March 27 to discuss to project.
The committee was formed in March to head the park on the borough-owned land along Route 443 in Pleasant Valley.
“We got great response and we found that there is a dire need of extra fields for games, for practices,” Umbenhauer said. “There’s more kids now than ever.”
Volunteers will start by creating parking space so people can access one softball field already on the land, she said, adding that volunteers will clear brush to make the spaces.
“They want to start using it again as soon as possible but they have to address the parking,” Umbenhauer said. “That one field that is there now will be tied into everything else.”
The existing field fell out of use because of the parking situation, she said, adding people parked along Route 443 and created an unsafe condition.
Cleanup work also needs to be done at the site, she said.
County President Timothy Peters announced at the March 13 meeting the creation of the Sports and Fitness Committee to create a recreation area using grants, community help and business help. He said there was enough room on the land to make three to eight soccer or football fields, four softball fields, a baseball field, a possible community center, a playground and a possible miniature golf area.
Umbenhauer said since the March 27 meeting produced a favorable community response, the borough will discuss at the April 10 meeting hiring a project engineer to draw up a plan for the land.
“You always have the ones that say, ‘Don’t you think we have enough?’ Or ‘Where’s the money gong to come from?’ But it’s not going to come from tax dollars,” she said.
Umbenhauer reiterated Peters’ March 13 comment that the project would be completed through volunteerism and grants.
Peters did not return phone calls Tuesday for comment.
“It’s going to be mainly on the volunteers’ head,” Umbenhauer said. “If they really want this, if they feel there’s need, then they’re going to have to help ... It’s going to take a long time to get it done and it’s going to be done in phases.”
http://www.republicanherald.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19444897&BRD=2626&PAG=461&dept_id=532624&rfi=6
Thought I Knew everything :P
I am Not aware of this Field
If it is along 443 as stated.
Anyone from The Pine Grove area Fill me In ?
? Jeff...you didn't know about this...in your own back yard
