Gilford meadows fields progressing. Harlem Wizards to peform at a fundraiser - 261

GILFORD — Gilford Meadows Committee Chair Sue Allen and Superintendent Kent Hemingway said last week that the work on the second field is progressing.

He said the newest practice field has been tilled and seeded and should be ready for use next spring.

"The new field had a continental divide," quipped Hemingway and the recent selectman's meeting in referring to the old corn rows that lie under the grass. He said the old corn ridges made it unsafe.

The playing fields at the meadows is an all-volunteer effort with a considerable amount in-kind work being done by various local companies and vendors.

The Meadow's Committee has been working for about 11 years to develop the property that was donated to the Gilford School District by Raymond and Barbara Carye in 2000. The original plan called for a new high school on that site but voters rejected that plan.

Over the past 11 years, the actual football and lacrosse field has been constructed and Gilford Football plays it home games there including tomorrow's homecoming game.

Hemingway said the irrigation system donated by Gilford Well is working "spectacularly" and the newest practice field was tilled with the assistance of Beans and Green owner Andy Howe.

Allen said that an upcoming fundraiser will bring the Harlem Wizards to the High School gymnasium on November 17. The Wizards are a charity comedy basketball team that perform throughout the world entertaining audiences with the basketball antics and raising money mostly for local schools and charities.