New lights will shine on the soccer field in spring in the Findlay Township Recreation and Sports Complex.

Dick's Sporting Goods donated money for lights at the field, which opened this fall.

"Without the lights, we're running out of practice time," recreation coordinator Darlene Larson Howell said.

The lights probably will be installed in the Route 30 park for the spring soccer season, Manager Gary Klingman said.

Supervisors awarded a $171,700 contract Nov. 12 to I & Y Construction, of New Enterprise in South Central Pennsylvania, for the lights and related items, such as a computer system for controlling them remotely.

Dick's will fund most of the project, as part of $500,000 in donations the company plans to make over the next decade to help upgrade the township's athletics facilities.

Supervisors' Chairman Tom Gallant said the project would benefit local youth leagues. "Most importantly, it's being paid for with private funds and not taxpayer money."

This year, Dick's Sporting Goods made its first $50,000 donation, part of which Findlay used to purchase bleachers and improve the turf of a baseball field, Mr. Klingman said.

The sporting goods company has corporate offices near RIDC Park West, but plans to move into a five-story, 675,000-square-foot headquarters at Route 60 and Moon-Clinton Road.

Besides the soccer field, the complex also contains two baseball fields, basketball courts, a skate park and a dek hockey rink.