Louis B. Ruediger | Tribune-Review
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Dozens of Leechburg High School students and parents, decked out in Blue Devils gear, crowded outside a borough council meeting Tuesday. They huddled on the steps and crammed into the doorway of the overflowing gallery, there to support a proposal by the school district to upgrade stormwater management at Veterans Field Sports Complex.
“I don’t want to go out there, ready to play a game, worried I’m going to get hurt or my teammates are going to get hurt,” said Thomas Burke, a Leechburg junior, who went to the meeting to advocate for the field improvements. “Every kid out there loves to play sports. They love to go out and do what they do.