With the 2014 Westside football season now underway, the pressure of completing the north entrance of the football field has now picked up as the first home football game is less than a week away. According to athletic director Tom Kerkman, the construction is only about 70 percent complete, but there will still be a game against Millard South Friday, Sept. 12. Kerkman said the school will have to use a makeshift entry and gate as well as bring in several portable bathrooms to accommodate the fans as well as having students enter on at the east entrance of the stadium.

Although there is still a fair amount of work to be done on the north entrance, there are several reasons contributing to the lengthy building process.

“We couldn’t get our building permits from the city,” Kerkman said. “We were ready to go, construction was ready to go, but we were still waiting for the city to approve all the building permits.”

Along with building permit complications, the construction took even longer when an unknown basement was found.

“They found that old cellar basement and they had to bring in dirt and re-tamp the ground and some of that kind of stuff,” Kerkman said. “That set things back a good week or two. Then with weather this last week, there are just some things when you do a construction project you just don’t foresee to happen.”

Luckily for Westside football fans, Kerkman thinks future is looking bright for the new entrance when Westside takes on Lincoln Northeast at home Sept. 19.

“Maybe by the 19^th the north entrance will be open so the concession stand will be done and the west part of the project will be done,” Kerkman said. “It’s just the entrance and the bathroom that will still need to be finished up.”