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Article: Eagle Mountain to build, improve city parks
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- September 19, 2008
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EAGLE MOUNTAIN -- A huge new park that will allow for a growing
sports program has soccer dad and coach Darren Twede optimistic.
"It's about time," he said after the City Council approved
funding this week to begin construction of the 60-acre Mid-Valley
Regional Park, improvements for Eagle Point Park and a skate park
for Pony Express Memorial Park.
"This is a very young area. We have lots of kids out here," he
said.
With only one major park in the town of 22,000, Nolan Park hosts
from 500 to 700 youthful soccer players in the fall. Then add some
200 budding football players and the park fills to capacity.
"There's no room to practice," he said.
The park is striped for soccer so football ...