Wawa's sportsfield track will be replaced in the coming months.
Community Services and Tourism Director Alex Patterson explains the long-awaited project - the Municipality's been applying for funding for four or five years, finally resulting in $130,000 from the Ontario Trillium Fund - will see the degraded old track - which has become hard to maintain - replaced.
Patterson assures this'll be much better to run on - as parts of the current track are essentially mud - and notes discussion with the chosen contractor have given some flexibility for "value-added" work, like smoothing out the fields, further noting unrelated funding from ParticipACTION for recreation programming will facilitate some improvements to the baseball diamonds - like new bases - while staff will add material to the ball fields, fixing them after several years not being used.
While hopes were to get the track work done in the spring, the late melt - followed by the freeze/thaw and bookings on the field - it was decided to delay it to June/July so the field isn't "spongy" and the machinery doesn't destroy the field in the process.