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Jeff Prusator Athletic Complex Stadium renovations delayed · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Jeff Persader Athletic Complex Stadium renovations delayed. Written by Matthias Warner.
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  Speaker 1: This article is being read by an automated voice brought
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  Speaker 1: to you by Everlett. The new digs for Mendoda Trojan
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  Speaker 1: athletes will have to wait at least one more season.
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  Speaker 1: Mendota Township High School announced that the one point four
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  Speaker 1: million dollars renovation project at Jeff Crusader Athletic Complex Stadium
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  Speaker 1: will be delayed until after the fall athletic season. We
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  Speaker 1: must delay our new field, turf and track installation until
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  Speaker 1: the end of the fall football and soccer seasons, the
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  Speaker 1: school posted in a Facebook post. Supply chain issues push
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  Speaker 1: back the planned start date. Work will begin after the
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  Speaker 1: fall season's conclude. Thank you for your patients. The project
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  Speaker 1: was expected to start Monday, August third and be completed
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  Speaker 1: by Saturday, August twenty second. Before the delay. Mendota Township
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  Speaker 1: High School District two hundred and eighty Superintendent Denise Augaenbaugh
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  Speaker 1: said that depending on the resolution of the supply chain issues,
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  Speaker 1: the field turf replacement and track resurfacing could take place
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  Speaker 1: in late fall or be pushed to the spring. The
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  Speaker 1: stadium upgrades will be locally funded by the district, Augambaw said,
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  Speaker 1: with a portion of the work paid for by using
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  Speaker 1: reserve parking ticket sales revenue that has been generated in
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  Speaker 1: recent years. The current stadium synthetic turf dates back to
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  Speaker 1: twenty eleven and its fifteen year life, which outlived the
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  Speaker 1: normal eight ten year shelf life of artificial turf used
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  Speaker 1: for stadium fields, will get one more fall season under
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  Speaker 1: its belt before being replaced.