School has raised over $700,000 to go
along with Packers $200,000 grant
A Green Bay Packers grant has helped pave the way to big improvements at the Logan High School football field.
The Packers announced Thursday they were awarding the high school with a $200,000 grant.
Logan Activities Director Steven Hole believes that, along with the $700,000 to $800,000 already raised, Logan’s Swanson Field will have new turf by next fall.
“For the last six years, or so, we’ve been working on fundraising,” Hole said Thursday at a press conference on the football field. “We’ve had several individuals step up and anonymously donate money to a project.”
The first priority is to upgrade the turf. With whatever money is left over, Hole hopes to resurface the track and either replace or improve on the bleachers and press box.
“These are all things on the wish list for Logan and, right now, with the dollars that we have, (it) wouldn’t cover all of those pieces,” Hole admitted. “So, the first thing we’re doing is working on this field.”
The next step is simple: planning.
“At this point, we’ve really been working on solid estimates,” Hole said, “but the next part of the plan is going to be – this winter and this spring – putting out some proposals for the actual work to be done.
Logan coach Casey Knoble is, of course excited for new turf, but not simply because of what happens on Friday nights.
“Our practice field is about three-fourths the width of an actual field,” Knoble said of the plot of grass adjacent to Swanson Field. “For us to get a real-life practice down there is very tough.
“I would say 90 percent of our practices would be on the game field, unless there’s another event happening.”