From the Daily Progress:
By Scott Ratcliffe Daily Progress correspondentPublished: January 19, 2009
Roddy Kibler moved to Greene County over 30 years ago with a Master’s degree in school psychology, and has served in the county’s school system ever since. On Thursday night, Kibler, now the President and Chairman of the Greene County Athletic Foundation, unveiled the group’s plan to revitalize the school’s athletic and fine arts facilities, and has brought in some heavy help to get the ball rolling.Senators Ed Robb and Russ Potts joined the movement about a year ago, and are ready to embark on a multi-million dollar campaign that will help William Monroe High School and Greene County take extra pride in the area’s high school sports and arts.“A lot of us looked at our athletic facilities over time and hoped that we could offer our young people and our coaches a lot more,” said Kibler, who sent four kids of his own through Greene County public schools.The goals for the campaign consist of the following; constructing restrooms, new dugouts and a press box for the softball and baseball fields, resurfacing a new polyurethane track around the football field, installing tennis courts with lighting (Greene County currently has no public tennis courts), improving the existing bleachers, concession stand and restrooms for the football field and soccer stadium, and completing construction of both the Adam Fargo Memorial Field House — named in honor of a former William Monroe All-district soccer player who was killed in Iraq a few years ago — and the Raymond C. Dingledine Performing Arts Center.The estimated cost for the project is $2.3 million, and the foundation hopes to have everything completed and in use by 2011. The board is comprised of Kibler, Victor Schaff, Rob Lynch, Ray Dingledine, Carroll Deane and Frank Luth.
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