Morton community pitching in for athletics facility update

MORTON Parents, alumni and school personnel have joined forces to help District 709 pay for a $4.7 million renovation of Morton High School’s outdoor athletic facilities that began this month.Build4Community is composed of representatives from the high school’s athletic boosters and band boosters, Club Sooie football alumni organization and Morton Lacrosse Club.High school athletic director Greg Prichard, marching band director Jeff Neavor and football coach Eric Lyons also are lending a hand.Neavor said the group is focusing its efforts on raising money to install and maintain artificial turf at Carper Field because so many students will benefit from the turf.”This is a united effort among organizations that don’t usually work together,” he said.Lyons agreed.”We’re all on the same team,” he said. “We enhance each other.”Tax-deductible donations can be made to the group through a fund overseen by the Morton Community Foundation.The group’s will have a fundraiser, Drive 4UR School, from 9 a.m. Saturday in the high school parking lot.Licensed drivers age 18 and older (one per household) can take a free test drive in vehicles provided by Mike Murphy Ford in Morton.Ford Motor Company will donate $20 for each test drive, up to a maximum of $6,000. Follow him on Twitter @SpartanSteve.If you goWhat: Drive 4UR School fundraiser hosted by the new Build4Community group in Morton.When: 9 a.m. Saturday.Page 2 of 2 – Where: Morton High School parking lot.Activities: Vehicle test drives; student-run car wash; grilled food in the Club Sooie Hog Trough; raffle tickets and Potter gear on sale; bouncy house for kids.Information: www.build4community.weebly.com/event. mainImageContainerInnerHTML_sm += ”+mainImageData_credit+”; mainImageContainerInnerHTML_sm += ”+htmlencode(mainImageData_caption)+”; $(‘#art-main-image-credit-container_sm’).css(‘width’,smimgwidth).css(‘padding’,’3px ‘+(mainImageData_leftPadding – 3)+’px 0 0’); $(‘#art-main-image-caption-container_sm’).css(‘width’,sm_img.width).css(‘padding’,’5px 0 0 ‘+(mainImageData_leftPadding + 3)+’px’); $(‘#zoom-handle’).css(‘padding-left’,(mainImageData_leftPadding + 3)+’px’); $(‘#art-main-image-caption-container’).css(‘width’,img.width).css(‘padding’,’5px 0 0 ‘+mainImageData_leftPadding+’px’); $(‘#art-main-image-credit-container’).css(‘width’,img.width).css(‘padding’,’5px ‘+(mainImageData_leftPadding)+’px 0 0’);



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