Morning Journal file/Patti Schaeffer The South Range football stadium in 2018.

BEAVER TOWNSHIP — A capital fund raising committee will be reorganized this month to launch the final phase of the stadium campaign.

Superintendent Dennis Dunham has announced a meeting has been scheduled for Jan. 16 to reorganize the committee tasked with raising funds for the athletics stadium project at the Rominger Sports Complex. The committee will launch the fourth and final phase of the project which includes restrooms, concessions, entrance plaza, ticket booths, fencing and parking improvements.

Dunham said campaign giving details will be revealed when ready.

The stadium is being completed at no cost to the district. Previous phases have been completed through a 300 Club, private donations from businesses, individuals and community organizations, and naming right agreements.

As each phase has been completed the boosters have donated the portion of the facility to the school board. Once finished, the entire facility will be donated to the school board.

The district began hosting night varsity football games in the fall of 2017.

“The project has been absolutely successful and essential in terms of providing top notch facilities for our student athletes at all levels,” Dunham said. “The community should be very proud of their generosity/support over the past five years. Finishing the project will make the project/stadium a great place for the South Range Community to enjoy for many years to come.”

Dunham noted the South Range athletic and music boosters have been instrumental in securing funds for the project. Previous phases provided funds for a turf competition field for soccer and football, a band shell, team locker rooms (home and visitors), home and away grandstands, a pressbox, a digital video scoreboard, a flag pole, fencing, LED lighting, a sound system and more.

The athletic boosters began the campaign in December of 2015 in order to build a stadium for athletics at the K-12 campus. Home football games were previously being played at Memorial Stadium behind the former high school in North Lima.

Donald DeChellis, chairperson for the stadium project at the time, noted when the campaign started that the team and district were in a poor situation playing at the former stadium.

“South Range (football) has not played a home game in six years,” he said at the time. “By that I mean every time they play a home game, they still have to pack up gear and transport the team and band.”

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