WPCNR PRESS BOX. July 12, 2007: A stateof-the-art high school football & track artificial turf facility seating 3,000 persons on the site of Glen D. Loucks Field at White Plains High School was promised to be ready in time for the staging of the 2008 Loucks Games at the high school at groundbreaking ceremony today at the high school. Parker Stadium at the Highlands Middle School was promised to be ready for kickoff for the annual White Plains-Stepinac Turkey Bowl this fall. The ceremony featured dignataries all who had a hand in convincing the community to approve a $66.7 Million bond for capital projects in the district last November. According to the School District the renovation of the two fields will cost $6.1 Million.

Community Leaders celebrate start of Loucks Field renovation: Left to right, Councilmen Glen Hockley, Benjamin Boykin, Harry Jefferson of the White Plains Athletic Committee, Mayor Joseph Delfino, who reminisced about his days playing on dirt on Ferris Avenue when he went to White Plains High School, Donna McLaughlin, Board of Education, Rose Marie Eller, Board of Education; Dan Woodward, who first conceived of the project to modernize the stadium,  and far right,  Dr. Anthony Morano of the Athletic Committee.