Dike announces plan for major sports complex

    DIKE —  A major project that has become Dike’s talk of the town will publicly kickoff next Wednesday. The Kruger-Hemmen Sports Complex, a nearly million-dollar outdoor recreational complex along Highway 20, will be discussed in detail at the Dike Community Center on Jan. 21 at 7 p.m.
    “We are excited to give residents more specifics about the design of the complex, the construction progress, our capital campaign plans and more,” said Justin Stockdale, leader of the steering committee.
    “We want to be totally transparent about this and allow our community members to know everything they want to know,” he said. “We’ll present our plans, and then this meeting will largely be a question-and-answer session.”
    Stockdale is also the president of Fields2Fields, a nonprofit organization established by the committee for grant applications and other funding opportunities.
    The project began in August, when Dennis Kruger and Kevin Hemmen presented a proposal to Dike’s city council for a complex that would include soccer fields, youth football fields, baseball/softball fields, a playground with shelter, a concession/restroom structure, parking for approximately 200 vehicles, just over a mile of fitness trails and other amenities.
  

For more of this story, see the Jan. 15 Grundy Register.