Burros, Blue Demons to Share D159 Field Space
The two youth athletic teams now have a home at the Mokena Elementary fields, but some board members are unhappy about how the facilitation of the field agreement was handled.
The Mokena Burros and the Lincoln-Way Blue Demons have officially found a home at the fields at Mokena Elementary School. The Mokena School District 159 Board of Education unanimously approved an agreement granting field usage to the youth athletic organizations for the next two years at a meeting Wednesday evening. Both teams are in need of a place to compete. The Burros youth football team, which struggled to find play space last season, was recently ousted from its practice field, a vacant lot that will soon be the site of a new Meijer grocery store. “I’m asking for the support of the school board,” said Burros Vice President Dan LaValle. The Blue Demons baseball team has had a contract to play on the Mokena Elementary fields for the …
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Brian H
2:22 pm on Monday, February 11, 2013
@RAK: Is that speculation? I would think that the teachers that are already teaching the half-day kindergarten program at MES are already union teachers. more ›