A local soccer club is literally recycling history-- building a new complex with parts form an old football stadium. Four months ago, bulldozers reduced the old Tiger Stadium to a pile of metal and concrete rubble. The things that could be salvaged, are now a part of the Sugar Creek Soccer Park in Bella Vista. "It would have been a shame to have seen them melted down for scrap metal or whatever the plan was for them. I'm glad that they can really be utilized in the community and put to good use," says NWA Lightening Tournament Director Jakob Nilsson. Parents can watch their children's games from the recycled bleachers as the old scoreboard keeps record of goals. The lights, concession stand and even the chain link fence all came from Tiger Stadium. And it was all donated. "We couldn't have done it, we couldn't have done it through fundraising, there's no way. I mean, this is probably a quarter of a million dollar facility or more that we've been able to put together for a fraction of that," Nilsson says. With so much of the past present on these fields, some parents have an emotional reaction when the see the park for the first time. "A lot of our parents have grown up in Bentonville and gone to the high school and they came out here after we'd refurbished it and they're like, 'gosh this looks like when I was a kid, I remember this, I used to play under those bleachers.' That's emotional."
