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ANTIOCH - The Village of Antioch and Antioch Township had a lot of celebrate April 19, and it was all in the name of Tim Osmond.

Residents, as well as village and township officials, gathered for the

dedication and opening ceremony of the Tim Osmond Sports Complex, an 80-acre park.

, The sports complex, which Is oil Depot Street, recently completed phase one of the four-phase project, and everyone seemed thrilled about it at the ceremony.

“The dedication was wonderful,”

Antioch Village President Dorothy Larson said. “There were so many people from the community that are just family people that are thrilled that we’re going to have these type of athletic field for the kids to play sports in."

The complex is named after late State Rep. Timothy H. Osmond, who

died in 2002.

"It is a great name for the park,” Larson said.

■ According to a release for the village, the township and village have been working on this project for the past five years.

See OSMOND, page 2A

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