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Belconnen Soccer Club’s Hawker venue will close at the end of the month due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, although the club says it had been on the cards for more than a decade. Club chief executive Geoff Long said it would close for the forseeable future on October 31, but no further decisions had been made about its future. Mr Long said trade in Hawker had been slow for several years, and the issue of closing the site was raised repeatedly in the past 15 years. However, the COVID-19 pandemic had been the final straw which pushed the club to closure after it…