Enough talk, they said. It's time to get serious and devise an open space strategy to include badly needed playing areas in Wakefield. Just about all other committees in town have long range plans, and we should too.
Someone has to be willing to do a concrete plan and move it forward.
Pennell later added that representatives from the open space support groups and various youth and adult sports groups in town could form a Friends of Recreation that will advocate and backbone the push to get land developed. The town's running out of room to play. According to Maloney, another piece of property is desperately needed so the worst of the current fields can be repaired and rested. That procedure would be repeated on a rotating basis until the condition of all fields in Wakefield is addressed satisfactorily. In October, the Recreational Needs Committee will present long-term goals for the town's recreational areas.