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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How are we going to stop Hardy from taking it over? [/quote]

Hardy is one party asking to share the space.

But you know that. [/quote]

I think you are forgetting the children in the aftercare at Jelleff Rec Center. IMO they have an even greater need for and claim to the space. [/quote]

+1  Hardy is not the only public school which asked to use Jelleff, and yes, the aftercare kids would love to play on a field rather than concrete occasionally.
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For the past decade, the roughly 100 kids at the Boys and Girls Club’s after-school program have largely been unable to use the field. Except when Maret students aren’t practicing, the kids are confined indoors. By 6 p.m. in the spring and fall, when the field becomes available for public use, most of the kids have already been picked up and gone home, Stowers says. In the summer and winter, when Maret doesn’t have exclusive access, it’s often either too hot or too cold for the kids to play outside (“I don’t think our camp went out at all this summer because it’s just too hot,” he says.)

Kids on the BGC sports teams are generally unable to use the field to practice, Stowers says. They have to practice indoors in the gym or on fields further away.[/quote][/quote]

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