For any of you who have used the facilities that Mandan High has for track & field or football, this should be good news. They’re going to build some locker rooms and sports medicine rooms at the facility and give it an overhaul.

The locker rooms in that field were…well, let’s leave it at that. It’s good to see the improvements on the way.

“Lefty” Faris was a long time Athletic Director for Mandan. I met him back when I was in high school, and he passed away my junior year. The field was named in his honor a short time later.

In 1987 the kids painted the Braves logo you see on the back of the facility. I resurrected a grainy picture:

It’ll be good to see the facility once it’s completed!