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Mercer County approves facilities upgrade
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The Mercer County School Board approved a facilities upgrade on Monday night that will feature renovations to George Pratt Memorial Field. Included in the privately funded project are a new all-weather eight-lane track, scoreboard, expanded press box, fence around the perimeter of the facility and shed on the west side. All projects will be completed before the start of the 2013-14 school year. "It upgrades our facilities to mirror the quality of programs who use it," Mercer County athletic director and football coach Nat Zunkel said. "I'm kind of giddy about it." Behind the project is Mercer County music director Rusty Ruggles, who spearheaded the "Golden Eagles Take Flight" fundraising campaign that covered the cost of the upgrades. Already completed in the project are new lights. "He's done a terrific job," Zunkel said of Ruggles, an Aledo graduate who was a member of the Green Dragons' 1988 Class 2A state runner-up football team. The project, according to Zunkel, cost about $1.5 million. The final phase are new bleachers, which Zunkel said should be completed in the next two years. -- By Daniel Makarewicz, danmak@qconline.com -- By Daniel Makarewicz, danmak@qconline.com 
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Today is Tuesday, May 21, the 141st day of 2013. There are 224 days left in the year.
1863 -- 150 years ago: On Monday the 11th inst. on Center Ridge in Mercer County,some citizens got out their cannon to celebrate the taking of Richmond. The gun wasoverloaded and burst. No one was injured, but one 30-pound piece went though thesecond story of a house.
1888 -- 125 years ago: The old folks concert at the Harper Theater last night to benefit St.Luke's Cottage Hospital, attracted a large audience.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Unless depredation by vandals in Rock Island parks is halted,special policemen will be assigned to night duty to protect the flowers and other property.
1938 -- 75 years ago: Station WHBF has received a special citation from Washington forits participation in Air Mail Week, which was observed this week throughout the nation.
1963 -- 50 years ago: A 10-year high in employment in the Quad-City area was reachedat the end of the last quarter, according to an industrial employment barometer releasedtoday.
1988 -- 25 years ago: Pee Wee teams will be able to play baseball and softball as usualon Diamond Three at Dorrance Park this summer, but after that, the ball field is doomed.County crews have put the diamond back in shape after heavy trucks marred the playingfield earlier this spring. Illinois Department of Transportation crews drove onto it to makeborings for the relocation of the junction of Illinois 84 and the Port Byron-Hillsdale road.
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