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Progress update on 5-year fields upgrade program
Recent NCLL Board efforts to upgrade Newton Central baseball programs:
Starting before the Spring 2007 season and continuing through the summer and fall 2007 seasons and the spring and summer 2008 seasons, we engaged a fields contractor to -
* pull boulders out of the Peirce outfield that were at the surface and hurt our players
* put better drainage around the Ward Upper field
* attempt to "flatten" out the infields and outfields
* clean up the base paths
* re-build mound and plate areas
* groom, mow and maintain the fields on a weekly basis
* re-seeded and re-sodded bare outfield areas
* aggressive efforts to dry out the fields after rains so that games can be played
* repairing and regularizing the irrigation of Cabot
* creating a 2d field at Burr (albeit temporary)
* other "invisible" fields maintenance to promote healthy grass and infield, plate and mound dirt
In addition to our fields upgrades, we started off-season baseball clinics, t-ball for NCLL and 3 summer travel baseball teams in the Suburban Youth Baseball League, in our continuing effort to improve your and your children's enjoyment of little league baseball. All of these efforts are costly and most are supported in whole or in part by donations.
Please help !
- Murray Sackman, Fields Coordinator
Friends of the Newton Central Little League Community,
The Board of Directors of Newton Central Little League (NCLL) asks for your support in our continuing commitment to upgrade our NCLL baseball programs. For example, we are 18 months into a 5-year plan to invest considerable resources and effort in upgrading our baseball fields at Cabot, Peirce and Ward.We are now embarking on the most ambitious phase of our program - to install a new infield and outfield at Cabot field in time for the fall baseball season (weather permitting). Our next phase will be to replace the Peirce infield, remove a few more boulders from the outfield (we removed several a year ago - a few were too large then) - and discuss outfield plans with Newton soccer. Then we will turn our attention back to Ward.
We have researched and considered the alternatives - replacing Cabot is the best way to provide our children with a playing field equivalent to other majors fields in other Newton little leagues. The outfield and infield areas have broken down and may become unsafe for fielders and base runners and the mound needs to be rebuilt. Too often, baseballs take odd bounces and players take odd tumbles in the infield and outfield.
The Cabot upgrade will cost approximately $50,000. We ask your help - donations of course are greatly appreciated and the most direct way to help - whether $10 or $100 or $1,000 or $10,000. Please send a check to:
Newton Central Little League
c/o David Levenfeld
11 Charles River Terrace
Newton, MA 02461-1912
You may also donate ON LINE by CLICKING HERE.
And most importantly, the NCLL board is completely volunteer - we have no paid staff - and we invite you to offer your help! Can you contact friends and businesses for donations and sponsorships? Can you host a fundraiser at your house? Can you arrange any special guests to invite to a fundraiser?
Please help!
Yours,
Roger Lehrberg, President
Alan Schlesinger, Secretary
David Levenfeld, Treasurer
Mitchell Klein, Chief Technology Officer / registrar / webmaster
info@NewtonCentral.org
Murray Sackman, Fields Coordinator
617-755-5100 (mobile)
Progress update on 5-year fields upgrade program
Recent NCLL Board efforts to upgrade Newton Central baseball programs:
Starting before the Spring 2007 season and continuing through the summer and fall 2007 seasons and the spring and summer 2008 seasons, we engaged a fields contractor to -
* pull boulders out of the Peirce outfield that were at the surface and hurt our players
* put better drainage around the Ward Upper field
* attempt to "flatten" out the infields and outfields
* clean up the base paths
* re-build mound and plate areas
* groom, mow and maintain the fields on a weekly basis
* re-seeded and re-sodded bare outfield areas
* aggressive efforts to dry out the fields after rains so that games can be played
* repairing and regularizing the irrigation of Cabot
* creating a 2d field at Burr (albeit temporary)
* other "invisible" fields maintenance to promote healthy grass and infield, plate and mound dirt
In addition to our fields upgrades, we started off-season baseball clinics, t-ball for NCLL and 3 summer travel baseball teams in the Suburban Youth Baseball League, in our continuing effort to improve your and your children's enjoyment of little league baseball. All of these efforts are costly and most are supported in whole or in part by donations.
Please help !
- Murray Sackman, Fields Coordinator
Friends of the Newton Central Little League Community,
The Board of Directors of Newton Central Little League (NCLL) asks for your support in our continuing commitment to upgrade our NCLL baseball programs. For example, we are 18 months into a 5-year plan to invest considerable resources and effort in upgrading our baseball fields at Cabot, Peirce and Ward.We are now embarking on the most ambitious phase of our program - to install a new infield and outfield at Cabot field in time for the fall baseball season (weather permitting). Our next phase will be to replace the Peirce infield, remove a few more boulders from the outfield (we removed several a year ago - a few were too large then) - and discuss outfield plans with Newton soccer. Then we will turn our attention back to Ward.
We have researched and considered the alternatives - replacing Cabot is the best way to provide our children with a playing field equivalent to other majors fields in other Newton little leagues. The outfield and infield areas have broken down and may become unsafe for fielders and base runners and the mound needs to be rebuilt. Too often, baseballs take odd bounces and players take odd tumbles in the infield and outfield.
The Cabot upgrade will cost approximately $50,000. We ask your help - donations of course are greatly appreciated and the most direct way to help - whether $10 or $100 or $1,000 or $10,000. Please send a check to:
Newton Central Little League
c/o David Levenfeld
11 Charles River Terrace
Newton, MA 02461-1912
You may also donate ON LINE by CLICKING HERE.
And most importantly, the NCLL board is completely volunteer - we have no paid staff - and we invite you to offer your help! Can you contact friends and businesses for donations and sponsorships? Can you host a fundraiser at your house? Can you arrange any special guests to invite to a fundraiser?
Please help!
Yours,
Roger Lehrberg, President
Alan Schlesinger, Secretary
David Levenfeld, Treasurer
Mitchell Klein, Chief Technology Officer / registrar / webmaster
info@NewtonCentral.org
Murray Sackman, Fields Coordinator
617-755-5100 (mobile)
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