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Kingaroy Senior Soccer Club lighting project co-ordinator Mick North watches Ergon workers erect poles for the club’s new lighting system at Tom Alford Oval last week<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

November 25, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

The future is looking brighter for Kingaroy’s soccer players, thanks to a grant from the Gambling Community Benefit Fund and help from Ergon.<\/p>\n

In September,\u00a0 the club learned the Gambling Community Benefit Fund had approved its application for a $35,000 grant to upgrade the floodlights on the club’s two training fields.<\/p>\n

The grant has allowed the club to replace its old lighting system with energy-efficient LEDs, and extend lighting from its main grounds in Oliver Bond Street to two nearby training fields.<\/p>\n

The project has been assisted by Ergon Energy, who helped the club install two new light poles late last week and ensured all the electrics were up to specification.<\/p>\n

Project co-ordinator Mick North said the club couldn’t praise the Gambling Community Benefit Fund and Ergon enough.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Over many years the Fund has helped us with a number of improvement projects on our grounds,” Mick said.<\/p>\n

“When we started here 20 years ago the playing fields weren’t much more than a rough grass paddock.<\/p>\n

“So what people see here today is really a tribute to a lot of work by a lot of people over two decades, plus a lot of help from organisations like the Gambling Fund and Ergon which have helped pay for the facilities or get them installed.”<\/p>\n

Three Ergon staff and two specialised vehicles helped get the new lighting poles into position and tested as part of its own Community Support Program.<\/p>\n

Mick said the new lights will allow the club to expand the range of sporting options it can offer.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Some ideas the club is thinking about are an Over 35s competition and possibly a Mixed competition that could be run on weeknights,” Mick said.<\/p>\n

“We could also run six-a-side competitions during the week for juniors, seniors, males and females.”<\/p>\n

The club is also looking forward to opening an improved and expanded clubhouse before the end of the year.<\/p>\n

This is thanks to a separate grant from the Department of Sport and Recreation, which is paying to get new men’s and women’s change rooms built at the Tom Alford Oval clubhouse.<\/p>\n

Mick said that if everything goes to plan, the new change rooms are expected to be opened by Christmas.<\/p>\n

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Ergon Energy donated staff and special equipment as part of Ergon’s Community Support Program to help the club get two new light poles erected<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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