Blue Jays make massive donation to build baseball park in Almaguin Highlands
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The Toronto Blue along with the Jays Care Foundation donated $50,000 to Almaguin Highlands to help build an incredible baseball field for the town.
The work on the baseball park has officially begun as the field plans on being fully ready for the 2025 spring baseball season after the Blue Jays donated $50,000 while the municipality covered the remaining $75,000 for the project.
The Toronto Blue Jays donated $50,000 to the Village of Burk's Falls under its Jays Care program, the Field of Dreams.
The municipality is taking money from its reserves to pay for the remainder of the $75,000 project. -Frangione
The municipality is taking money from its reserves to pay for the remainder of the $75,000 project. -Frangione
Councilman Ryan Baptiste stated that the advertising revenue from the baseball park will be able to to re-fill the reserve fund for the municipality which is where their money for the field came from within it's first season.
Coun. Ryan Baptiste says the reserve fund will be replenished with advertising revenue during the ball season.
Baptiste says work includes replacing the old backstop with one that is higher. -Frangione
Baptiste says work includes replacing the old backstop with one that is higher. -Frangione
A ton of work is going into this new ballpark as they will be changing the old fence around the park as well as putting in a new and better back stop. The benches in both dugouts will be getting switched to aluminum while the bleachers will also get changed as they will be also adding touches to the foul polls.
Arenes Construction co-owner Scottie Scholten says the old fence has also been removed and Muskoka Fence has been subcontracted to install the new fence.
Scholten says the four-foot fences in front of both dugouts are being replaced with six-foot high fences «to better protect the kids».
The players in both dugouts are getting backless aluminum benches.
The fans can sit on two new bleachers.
Other work includes straightening out the grass line from the foul post to the infield, adding new aggregate for the infield as well some topsoil to level out the holes and divots in the outfield. -Frangione
Scholten says the four-foot fences in front of both dugouts are being replaced with six-foot high fences «to better protect the kids».
The players in both dugouts are getting backless aluminum benches.
The fans can sit on two new bleachers.
Other work includes straightening out the grass line from the foul post to the infield, adding new aggregate for the infield as well some topsoil to level out the holes and divots in the outfield. -Frangione
The entire project is expected to be fully done by the end of October so hopefully means in a few weeks as the municipality gets ready to enjoy their new baseball park after the long Canadian winter.
Source: North Bay Nipissing
WHAT GOING ON HERE: Toronto Blue Jays help fund new ball field in Almaguin Highlands
WHAT GOING ON HERE: Toronto Blue Jays help fund new ball field in Almaguin Highlands
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