Donor to renovate Edgewood football field
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
An anonymous donor wants to give Edgewood Middle School football a facelift.
And the Warsaw Community High School homecoming football game Sept. 16 will be celebrated with fireworks.
Tuesday, during a special Warsaw Community School Corp. Board of Trustees meeting, the board accepted the anonymous donor's gifts for the EMS football project. The actual dollar figure will be approved after the project is complete.
The donor plans to pay the contractors directly for the work, which is slated to include new goal posts, scoreboard, bleachers, a press box, concession stand, irrigation system and plumbing for the concession stand and irrigation system.
After the school board meeting, Board President Ron Yeiter said the school corporation was only made aware the donor wanted to make the gift in the past two to three weeks. No timeline is set, but Yeiter said the donor seemed eager to get the work going quickly, which was why the donor wants to pay the contractors directly.
WCHS Student Council sponsor Jim LeMasters requested the board's permission to have the fireworks at the high school after the Sept. 16 homecoming game and for the board to approve the contract with Mad Bomber Fireworks Productions.
LeMasters said the school used to have fireworks but stopped because the football team kept losing and people complained Warsaw was celebrating the other teams' victories.
But now, WCHS wants to have the fireworks back. LeMasters said it will be nice to have the fireworks, too, since it's the first year of football at the new Tigers Athletic Complex.
Mad Bomber, LeMasters said, is the same company that handled the fireworks for Plymouth's Blueberry Festival and for the July 4 holiday over Winona Lake.
The cost is $2,500 for 200 to 250 shells and the student council is paying for the fireworks. However, LeMasters said the students also are hoping to secure funds from other outside sources to help pay for the fireworks.
LeMasters said he met with Warsaw Fire Chief Matt Warren, who wants to meet with the fireworks company before he approves the exhibition. LeMasters also acknowledged some neighbors already have complained about the noise from Warsaw's home football games.
Board members for Warsaw Schools are Yeiter, Wiggins, Cathy Folk, Gene England, Tammy Dalton, Dan Robinson and Chuck Sauders. Their next regular meeting is Sept. 19 at 7 p.m. [[In-content Ad]]
An anonymous donor wants to give Edgewood Middle School football a facelift.
And the Warsaw Community High School homecoming football game Sept. 16 will be celebrated with fireworks.
Tuesday, during a special Warsaw Community School Corp. Board of Trustees meeting, the board accepted the anonymous donor's gifts for the EMS football project. The actual dollar figure will be approved after the project is complete.
The donor plans to pay the contractors directly for the work, which is slated to include new goal posts, scoreboard, bleachers, a press box, concession stand, irrigation system and plumbing for the concession stand and irrigation system.
After the school board meeting, Board President Ron Yeiter said the school corporation was only made aware the donor wanted to make the gift in the past two to three weeks. No timeline is set, but Yeiter said the donor seemed eager to get the work going quickly, which was why the donor wants to pay the contractors directly.
WCHS Student Council sponsor Jim LeMasters requested the board's permission to have the fireworks at the high school after the Sept. 16 homecoming game and for the board to approve the contract with Mad Bomber Fireworks Productions.
LeMasters said the school used to have fireworks but stopped because the football team kept losing and people complained Warsaw was celebrating the other teams' victories.
But now, WCHS wants to have the fireworks back. LeMasters said it will be nice to have the fireworks, too, since it's the first year of football at the new Tigers Athletic Complex.
Mad Bomber, LeMasters said, is the same company that handled the fireworks for Plymouth's Blueberry Festival and for the July 4 holiday over Winona Lake.
The cost is $2,500 for 200 to 250 shells and the student council is paying for the fireworks. However, LeMasters said the students also are hoping to secure funds from other outside sources to help pay for the fireworks.
LeMasters said he met with Warsaw Fire Chief Matt Warren, who wants to meet with the fireworks company before he approves the exhibition. LeMasters also acknowledged some neighbors already have complained about the noise from Warsaw's home football games.
Board members for Warsaw Schools are Yeiter, Wiggins, Cathy Folk, Gene England, Tammy Dalton, Dan Robinson and Chuck Sauders. Their next regular meeting is Sept. 19 at 7 p.m. [[In-content Ad]]