Turf Field Coming To Jonathan Alder?
March 22, 2019
Jonathan Alder’s community has raised over $500,000 to put turf in place on the high school’s main field. The final deadline to give donations is April 1st, 2019. If you want to donate, you can mail a donation to the JA Boosters P.O. box, (212, Plain City, OH 43064) or visit the the Jonathan Alder Turf Project website.
According the Alder Field Turf website, the athletic director, Tom Vargo, said, “This community is passionate about Jonathan Alder, they’re loyal to Jonathan Alder and they’re really dedicated to Jonathan Alder.” Athletic booster president Michelle Mancini said, “look at it from a concession/revenue standpoint. The more people we bring in, the more activities we bring in; we have the opportunity to make more money.” Overall it seems to be that Jonathan Alder’s athletic booster team and the community are very passionate about the school
and the sports involved with it.
Principal Mike Aurin said, “The biggest thing that [the turf brings to Jonathan Alder] is a resource that you can use year round, [it] leverages a resource for multiple sources year round.” Aurin also mentioned that the turf provides accessibility for all sports and people can use it year round.
On Monday March 11th, the Jonathan Alder school board accepted donations and planned to move forward on finalizing a contract for the turf field. However, they still needs donations to help get to the final goal.
Gary Bourquin • Mar 22, 2019 at 3:44 PM
JA still needs all sports individual records on display 2 years ago I took this on after approaching AD Vargo and the school board. Every other high school in America has this. I was able to collect info from nearly every sport except Football, Baseball, Boys Basketball and Boys Soccer. So all records are on file and ready to go except for those sports that have many coaches that can make this happen in their off seasons. I did the majority of it as 1 person with some help from coaches and parents and others. There were 2 coaches that were against individual school records and I would like to remind them that records belong to the student athletes and their great accomplishments not the individual coaches opinion. I would really like to see this happen as Jonathan Alder is not in tune with the times. Hopefully now with the turf coming people will realize we need to catch up with the other high schools in America and we will have the great history of JA individual sports achievements on display.