2009 Park Improvements Begin

Halloween day was chosen as the first volunteer work day for the 2009 park improvements. With of lots of promised volunteer labor, donated material and services, and a $7700 PenMet Parks Grant, we're putting a concrete border around the entire sand area and adding netting on the west and north sides so that balls don't get away from us so much. As Dave said today, we won't be holding back on the hard spikes any more.

Today was focused on moving sand out of the way so that our favorite dirt guy Bill Winchester can excavate this coming Tuesday before Ron Miller puts in the concrete. Both are great guys we've worked with before and who are donating some of their labor to our cause.

Moving sand away from the borders are Renae and Gregg, Scott and Tim, Kenny, Stephan, JohnV and George.







Chris, Eric, Dave, George, and Jeff Cochran took on the biggest job...digging deep to find the corner of the existing drain pipe so we could insert a T-coupler to which we'll tie in all the drain pipe we'll be adding outside the concrete wall.


The City asked us to put up some caution tape to keep the public aware that the courts are under construction for the next several weeks, and we found that it served another purpose as a make-shift net. Here are some pictures of us pretending to play a game in our work clothes after finishing all the digging. Names withheld to protect the innocent.