Netball hopes
LEONGATHA’S Parrots netballers dream of playing on two new outside courts that will further make the town the sporting hub of South Gippsland.
The club’s grants officer Jeanne Dekker today urged South Gippsland Shire Council to support the Leongatha Football Netball Club’s proposal to build two new courts at the Leongatha Recreation Reserve.
The club’s preferred site is north of the existing clubrooms, between Woorayl Golf Club and the exhibit sheds.
Mrs Dekker told council the club was the only one in the Gippsland League to play matches indoors, at South Gippsland SPLASH leisure centre.
Those facilities are expensive for the Parrots to hire and present issues with entry.
The club sought council’s support to apply for $100,000 from the State Government’s Country Football Netball Program and has $10,000 already. Further funds will be raised.
The existing Leongatha and District Netball Association courts are fully used on Saturdays, and are too far from the football action on the main reserve.
More in next week’s Star.
From left, South Gippsland Shire Council’s recreation officer Ian Murphy, Leongatha Football Netball Club’s Jeanne Dekker, Michelle Harris of Hands On Community Solutions and netball club president Renae Littlejohn
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