Senior Night cancelled due to field conditions
Posted By bqschwartz
Date: November 7th, 2009
Category: New Field Effort
The Oct. 23, 2009 football game against Schuylkill Haven was moved from Jim Thorpe to Haven due to poor field conditions.
The field is essentially closed until studies can be conducted and a plan put in place to fix the drainage.
The real tragedy here is that the field had to become unplayable before anyone would pay attention to it and now the seniors won’t have Senior Night like every senior before them.
Apparently, there was an uproar from the town that prompted Jim Thorpe School District Superintendent Barbara Conway to write a letter to the TIMES-NEWS. Read that letter here.
We hope the district will invest the appropriate amount of time and money into properly fixing the field where drainage, according to Mrs. Conway, “has been a problem since the field was opened almost nine years ago.”
Why the drainage problems weren’t addressed nine years ago when there was probably a warranty on the work is a good question.
Let’s hope this time around the work is done right, good contracts are in place to ensure the work is done right, and the field is ready by next August.