RJV Soccer Park Open for Business

Emily Mailhot Reporter – Vegreville News Advertiser After much anticipation, the RJV soccer park is up and running for the 2019 outdoor soccer season.

Vegreville Minor Soccer Association registrar and Vice President Shelley Berry says that the idea of an all-in-one soccer park has been in the works for nearly a decade. “Allan Bohrson, president of Vegreville Minor Soccer, had a dream for close to ten years to build a facility for the youth of Vegreville and the surrounding communities to participate in an organized soccer program on safe and regulation-sized soccer pitches. This dream is now a reality and will provide growth of our sport in the Vegreville community.”

Over the past years, all soccer games and practices have been scattered throughout Vegreville at any location that could accommodate them. Thanks to the good timing of the soccer park’s completion, all minor soccer games, practices, and activities will be held at the RJV fields this year. In addition to the full regulation-sized pitches, the younger age categories will be able to play widthwise on the field, and a separate fenced-in area has been set up around four small fields to the north of the park for the U5 soccer players.

The park is located on the west side of Maple Street, across from....

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