If Williams Lake can get enough votes, TSN will provide $25,000 to refresh the track at Williams Lake Secondary.

“I’d urge everybody in town to vote as many times as they can,” says WLSS teacher Morley Wilson, who nominated a project to refurbish the 30-year-old track to the The Kraft Celebration Tour as part of TSN’s 25th anniversary.

The project is one of 20 finalists which will go head to head, and 10 communities will win $25,000.

Williams Lake is up against Kaslo, and whichever community gets the most votes on July 13 in online voting wins.

Voting is from 9 a.m. to 8:59 p.m. July 13. You can vote at www.kraftcelebrationtour.tsn.ca/ during that day. Voting is unlimited.

That link will also be available at www.wltribune.com that day. The winner will be announced July 14.

Should Williams Lake win, there will be a presentation and live broadcast of Sportscentre with hosts Darren Dutchyshen and Jennifer Hedger on Aug. 22 at the track.

“Unfortunately, our track is in very poor, and unsafe condition,” Wilson says in his nomination submission.

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“The track at WLSS is gravel, at best. It is filled with potholes, and is generally not safe for running on.

“Often we’ll find broken glass and other dangerous and/or questionable materials in the gravel. All in all, it is not in an acceptable condition for our students, our athletes, or our community members.

“An active, outdoor lifestyle is a huge part of the Williams Lake community.

“If we were chosen for one of the Kraft Community Refresh prizes, we would use the funds to make our track a safe place to be active, by paving our 400-metre track with asphalt. Although it would not be ideal, it would provide our school and town with a safe running surface, which would add immensely to both our school and community.”

Kaslo is looking to improve its logger sports grounds.