Volunteers are the key in building the 3,000-seat facility

Kapaa High School will finally have a real home football game this year thanks to a huge volunteer effort, Kauai Mayor Bryan Baptiste has announced.

Calling the project “something the (Kapaa) district has wanted for years,” Baptiste said Friday that the new football and soccer stadium, with seating for 3,000, will be built using existing fields at the Kapaa New Town Park.

Work on the nearly $1.3 million facility is under way, with the funding coming from a bond sale and a grant from the county park trust fund.

Most of the work will be done by volunteers, and local irrigation, design and construction businesses are also donating their services.

“This is really a community project,” the mayor said. “If it weren’t for the volunteers, we wouldn’t be able to do it.”

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(Source: Honolulu Star-Bulletin)