March Updates (3/25/10)
The soccer field has been tested and proven true by several games of the King Tournament a few weeks ago. That NDA has opened the field first to the tournament is due to an agreement with Town and Country Sports and Health Club of Wilder. They allowed our soccer team to use their field for practice for several years, so an opportunity to repay their generosity was welcomed. Our students have begun to practice lacrosse, giving us a chance to find out what the game is all about.
The field itself? Temporary fencing is still at each end, however, the D zones have been seeded, and a tall fence skirts the track at the east end above the steep slope to yards on St. Joseph Lane. Other signs of progress: aluminum bleachers are positioned on either side of the field, and portable toilets are now available. The next big step will be a field house that will have rest rooms (won’t that be nice!) as well as concessions.
All of the surrounding slopes have been seeded. It is to be noted for those who don’t get to actually see the field that it is not at parking lot level. It lies about nine or ten feet below that, and is, therefore, surrounded on three sides by sloping land. Only the east end of the site slopes downward away from the field, giving evidence of how much dirt had to be packed into the gulley. Very impressive. Blogger was told that thousands of tons of dirt were transported to the site back in the spring and summer of 2008. She has on her computer desktop a photo taken from the floor of the gully in early March of that year. In the early years after the school’s construction, the gully had a rugged loveliness that was cherished by the nature lovers among us. Now just a memory. But today’s progress dictates other values for the school. The loveliness once possessed by the gully will, in future years, be enjoyed in the wetlands still under development.
