Walkerton’s soccer community want Brockton to provide them with a field of dreams.
The future of Walkerton’s most popular minor sports program may be in jeopardy.
Walkerton Minor Soccer President Andrea Barclay says by 2012 the town may lose a large portion of its soccer fields.
She says the Bluewater District School Board has announced that they will not commit their fields for use past this date.
The fields are located at Walkerton District Secondary School and Brant Central School.
That’s why a group of representatives from the soccer community have formed together to create a soccer field committee.
They want Brockton purchase 14 acres of land and create 4 regulation size and 4 mini size soccer fields.
This is expected to be a million dollar plus project.
Currently Walkerton utilizes the soccer fields at Walkerton District Secondary School, Brant Central, Sacred Heart High School and Mother Teresa School.
The only municipally owned fields are two smaller ones at Riverbend and Lobbies Park.
Barclay says soccer is the sport of choice in Walkerton — with over 450 children and youth enrolled in soccer as well as 70 adults,
Registration has jumped by 70 percent over the last five years.
Brockton has directed its Recreation Department to study the problem and investigate possible solutions.
Those include the creation of new municipal soccer fields, renting land and renegotiating an agreement with the Bluewater public school board.
