Two visitors to the Haddonfield Commissioners meetings last week certainly brightened the future for the Haddonfield Soccer Program, as Freeholder Director Lou Capelli and Freeholder Scot McCray presented the borough with a $25,000 check for improvements to two soccer fields at the Crows Woods athletic complex.
The Freeholders presented the Borough Commissioners and representatives from the soccer program with the check last week. The $25,000 grant will go towards upgrading the two fields drainage systems, which as anybody knows that has played on the fields, is in need of improvement.
This was the second $25,000 grant the Haddonfield Soccer Program has successfully applied for and received in the past few months. The first $25,000 grant was awarded for improvements to the municipal complex’s lighting system.
In June, soccer program board member Jim Dugan said the grants were obtained through the work of then President Dave Capelli. Duggan pointed to Capelli and the board successfully acquiring the open space grants from the county for Crows Woods.
Without these grants, Duggan said Crows Woods would not have its current lighting system and improved drainage capacity. Right now the board is also currently awaiting judgment on a third open space grant for $25,000 from the county as well.
Capelli and McCray also informed the commissioners that the Potter and Ellis Street construction project is about three months ahead of schedule.
“I want to thank the mayor and commissioners for their cooperation and efforts with this project,” Capelli said.
Commissioner Ed Borden said this project will greatly improve the safety of the intersection, which he said was the location of numerous “T-bone accidents” each year.
The project was funded by 100 percent of a state grant the county received for road construction, Borden said.
