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Progress Report
11/23/07
Ordered fence for Dalton backstop
11/20/07
Worked on installing block on new Dalton Monument
11/15/07
Continued working on bleacher pads, backstop and drainage area on Dalton
11/11/07
Stripped roof forms on Polo Grounds and cleaned up.
 
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City Rec Dept. tilled all the infields
11/5/07
Continued building caps on Dalton Backstop plus Batting Cage and bleacher pads and new monument footer.
  
11/1/07
Poured convrete roofs. This is how you get more than a ton of concrete up eleven feet quick enough to do the job. . .
 
Thanks to Maiden & Jenkins for pulling their crane & bucket off another job to get that done.
10/22/07
Installed rebar on 1st base dugout and finished rebar on 3rd base dugout. Drag Dalton field improved area as well as seeded and laid down straw.
 
10/12/07
Formed and poured concrete caps to Dalton backstop. Removed and stored outfield signs for winter.
10/8/07
Continue building Dalton backstop. Install fence poles. Continue framing roofs on Polo Grounds. Install rebar on
3rd base side dugout.
  
9/30/07 Build new block backstop on Dalton Field. Continue framing roofs on Polo Grounds for concrete.
 
9/20/07 Weeded monuments
9/17/07 Built frame for concrete pour of roof on Polo Grounds dugout (3rd base side)
9/16/07 Built frame for concrete pour of roof on Polo Grounds dugout (1st base side)
9/14/07 Spread out block for blocklayers
9/12/07 Poured footers for backstop
9/10/07 City dug footers for Dalton Backstop
9/9/07 Tore down backstop and dugout fencing on Dalton.9/17/07 Built frame for concrete pour of roof on Polo Grounds dugout (3rd base side)
8/12/07 - Cleaned out concession stand; began organizing returned equipment.
7/12/07 THUNDER IN THE VALLEY SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT PREPARATION
6/22/07 THROWDOWN IN A-TOWN BASEBALL TOURNAMENT PREPARATION
6/20/07
Inform tournament teams of schedules. Weeded Fenway track. Trimmed bushes and weeded shrub area. Cleaned and swept Fenway dugouts. Watered and repaired mound. Moved 250 feet of fence on Crosley field for tournament play. Answer questions from participating teams. Updated website.
6/19/07
Coaches meeting for all teams participating in tournament this weekend. Draw and set play schedule for 24 teams on six fields. Make brackets for all three divisions. Raked and redistrubted gravel in Fenway saftey cages. Distributed rules. Finalize paid umpires for games. Answer questions from participating teams.
6/18/07
Replaced clay on Fenway and watered. Shopped and resupplied goods for concession stand. Find and confirm paid umpires for games. Answer questions from participating teams. Updated website.
6/17/07
Filled Fenway Monument in and cleaned up excess dirt, cleaned up excess block on Jaycee Monument and main monument and filled in dirt on Jaycee Monument. Planted flowers in two monuments. Watered and tamped Fenway mound. Answer questions from participating teams. Ordered tournament shirts.
6/16/07
Repainted foul lines in grass areas on several of the fields. Ordered goods for the concession stand. Ordered trophies/medals for tournament teams. Designed t-shirt for tournament. Answer questions from participating teams. Watered plants in monuments. Watered Wrigley mound. Updated website.
5/21/07-6/7/07
Keith Bolin finished out a monument for the Athens Jaycees redidication plaque commemorating the 40th year anniversary of the group building the two original softball fields when the "park" was a field of corn. The placque will be installed later this summer. The Athens Jaycees created the original two softball fields when the area was just a corn field. The Athens Sandlot Board felt that same community spirit could live on with their field renovation/creation project started in 2004.
Keith Bolin helps create a main monument area for the park.
5/20/07 - Started plantings in monuments.
5/17/07 - Set field markers on top of block monuments
 
5/15/07 - Set block for seventh and eights monument.
5/14/07 - Set block for fifth and sixth monument
5/12/07 - Set block for third and fourth monument
5/11/07 - The First Pickle Sale!
5/10/07 - Set Block for first and second monument.
 
5/9/07 - Putting up Rotary's sign
5/7/07 - Dug dirt out of monument foundations so block could be set.
5/4/07 - Started setting out block for monuments to seven fields.
5/3/07 - Pourted concrete footers for field monuments.
5/2/07 - Moved concrete block by hand to seven fields for monuments.
5/1/07 - Dug footers for field monuments
4/28/07 - Laid out field monument locations
4/25/07 - Planted more trees
4/23/07 - Fixed Fenway Monster wind screen. Installed two more foul line post.
4/22/07 - In recognition of Earth Day, plant, mulch and water the remaining 10 trees. Bag 22 cans of trash from all the fields and concession stand.
4/21/07 - Set up for parade at 8:00. Line rest of fields. Open concession stand. Began Parade at 10:00. At the fields by 10:45. Organize teams for line ups and introductions. Organize color guard and flag ceremony. Dedication of Athens Rotary Club Polo Grounds. Recognition of The Plains VFW for donation of Flag poles. Play 1st round of games. Last team done at 11:30 p.m. Close and clean the concession stand.
4/20/07 - Coaches or representatives from each team came out and helped. Dragged, raked and lined most of the fields for Saturday play. Planted 10 more trees around the fields. Cleaned out the concession stand. Put fence topping on the Polo Grounds and finished Jacobs. Built shelves in new closets. Painted and installed additional foul line posts. Thanks to everyone who came out and helped!
4/19/07 - Coaches or representatives from each team came out and helped. Dug and prepared third flag pole base. Started building foul line poles for all the fields. Started painting them as well. Painted Fenway Backstop. Painted Three Rivers Backstop. Installed benches at Three Rivers. Filled in around bleacher pads on all the fields. Planted grass seed and spread hay at Polo Grounds. Removed excess dirt piles. Installed fence top on Crosley Field. Thanks to everyone who came out and helped!
4/18/07 - Plant, mulch and water 11 new trees around the fields. Watered pitchers mounds.
4/17/07 - Rolled fields to compact the playing surface and outfields. Fencing was begun on Polo Grounds. Closet doors hung on two fields. Equipment reallocated among new closets.
4/16/05 - Dave West from Athens Paint and Decorating painted the backstops on the Polo Grounds, Riverfront, Crosely, Jacobs as well as dugouts.
4/15/07 - Cleaned up all the piles of black top and some of the dirt piles. We also set the other 2 flag poles and set those bleachers on Polo Grounds. We picked up several truck loads of debris around the park into the compound. It was too wet to grade fields.
4/10/07 - Dug trench for fence on Polo Grounds.
4/7/07 - Bleachers placed on pads. Flagpole foundations made. Installed mound for 7th grade play. Coaches clinic held. Umpires clinic held.
4/5/07 - Framed and poured concrete pads - added gravel to some (in the snow).
4/4/07 - Inventoried and handout equipment.
4/3/07 - Installed portable fence on Crosley for 7th Grade play.
4/2/07 - Finished dugouts and setting reinforcement bars in dugouts. Practice starts for 12 and under groups.
4/1/07
Started setting reinforcement bars in dugouts. Started cleaing up old materials from new field construction. Set foul line and outfield fence posts on new field (Thanks to We Care Lawn Care (Hurston) for digging the holes and Brian for helping lay the lines). Also set new poles for Three Rivers 3rd base line. Marked out places for bleacher pads. Practice schedule set.
3/31/07
Blocklayers started building dugouts (Thanks Keith Bolin and Steve Bolin). Tendered block and cement for blocklayers. (Thanks to Hocking Valley Concrete for the block).
Prepare 7th & 8th grade fields for game play. 7th & 8th Grade games start.
Conducted evaluations (Thanks to all the coaches who helped with evaluation day). Organized player results, charted, and set teams for all age divisions.
3/30/07
Set up block for backstops and gatehred material for blocklayers
3/28/07 Surveyed dugouts on new field for concrete pour. Added eight tons of gravel and poured floor.
3/27/07 Brought in more dirt to Riverfront. Disked and leveled Riverfront. Leveled, added seed and straw for grass on Riverfront and around Three Rivers. Framed and poured dugout floors in Three Rivers. Continued backfilling dugouts and backstop on new field.
3/26/07 Backfilled new field backstop with dirt. Brought new dirt to Three Rivers and Riverfront.
3/25/07
On the new field, finished digging out out dugout floors for concrete pouring of the dugout floors. Continued back filling dugouts. Also completed adding fence topping to Three Rivers and Riverfront.
3/24/07
Started laying brick for new backstops. Dug out floors of backstops for pouring floors. Started backfilling backstop with dirt.
 
Left, intern Dan the Man supervises the progress. Right, Keith Bolin and Steve Bolin volunteered their time to build the dugouts.
 
Third base side
 
First base side
3/23/07
Moved over dugout block from parking lot to dugout area. Many of the blocks donated by Hocking Valley Concrete.
 
3/15/07
Forms set and concrete poured for third section of new backstop.
3/6/07
Tore down concrete forms and reinstalled for next part of backstop.
3/1/07
Finished instillation of backstop forms. Poured part of the backstop on the new field. Baseballs & Softballs ordered for season. Block, mortar and sand ordered for dugouts.
2/1/07-2/28/07
Weather delayed working on fields.
1/27/07
Installed fence top on Riverfront. No pictures. Not that exciting. . .
1/21/07
This is not a bad picture (left). It was snowing hard . . . so hard we had to sweep the snow off the plywood we just bought before it could be cut.
 
We finished out the secondary forms used to connect the primary forms together. Angela stuck it out both days.
1/20/07
This is the day before. With the help of Jay Maiden, we unloaded and set up primary metal forms which are used to hold the concrete of the backstop until it sets.
 
Thanks to Steve Mack, Al Shaffer, Dwayne Moon and Angela Maiden for helping. Looks like a nice sunny day doesn't it? It was about 25 degrees. . . .
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