After months of preparation, sorting through red tape, and raising money, we’ve finally broken ground on the construction of a new youth baseball field at the Hucherson YMCA in North Tulsa. LawnAmerica is paving the way to make this happen, with the goal of having a beautiful baseball field ready to play on by next spring. Building fields is not our businsess–we care for turf once it’s down on home and business lawns. But we do have a passion for helping kids, the communities we serve, and I love baseball!
Work begins at the Hutcherson YMCA youth baseball field in North Tulsa!
Both of my sons played baseball as kids, starting out in coach pitch (which this field will be used for). My oldest played on a state championship team at Owasso a few years ago, and is now using his eye-hand coordination skill in aiming for Taliban targets off a Marine hummer. My youngest son also played baseball as a kid, but moved into other sports later on. Young kids in North Tulsa do not have access to the nice baseball fields and opportunites to progress in baseball as in other areas of town. So we are just doing our little part to help change that.
We are needing about $45,000 in funds to build this field, complete with an irrigation system, sod, fencing, and bleachers. Whatever our customers and friends do not donate, LawnAmerica will pick up the slack on. So if anyone wants to get involved and help, just contact the folks at the Hutcherson YMCA and they will gladly accept your contribution.
The new sod should be ready to install soon, so I”ll post updates once that happens. And we’ll post the informtion on the first game played–sometime next spring. Who knows–there may be a future star incubated on the Hutcherson Field soon.
And on the lawncare side of things, fescue needs to be seeded over the next two weeks. We’ve started our late fall weed-control treatment, so our lawns will be spotless and clean next early spring.
