SHELBY, OH – Blue skies overlooked Shelby’s Copperweld Field on Friday, as area landscaping companies Flashover Maintenance and RiverRun Solutions fixed up Shelby’s five existing little league fields. RiverRun President Josh Horst talked about what went into the cleanup effort to get the field ready for the season.”We’re here reconditioning the baseball fields for the youth baseball program – baseball and softball,” said Horst. “Usually after a hard winter – and as baseball season ends [at] the fields, everybody gets done taking care of them. We always come in every year and get the fields reconditioned by raking them out. We bring guys in, we re-edge the baseball field, rake it out, pull all the weeds, clean out the dugouts, pick up trash, anything that’s overgrown in the last six months or so since the previous baseball season, we come in and just get it up to par for the community.”Each of the workers present at the field on Friday was a volunteer – the field maintenance was done for free, as many of the crew members spent their youth playing sports and fondly look back on it.”All of us came together and donated our time for the community,” Horst said. “We want to be able to give back to the youth in the community to make sure that they have a great place to play baseball and softball. Riverrun has about six guys here today, we joined up with [Flashover Maintenance].”Maintenance workers could be seen trimming the lawn, cleaning up dugouts, pulling weeds, re-edging the dirt on the field during the volunteer effort.”We always like to give back to our community. It doesn’t matter if it’s Shelby or Crestline,” said David Taylor, Vice-President of Operations at Flashover Maintenance. “We’re always about volunteering – for kids, especially.”The maintenance work wasn’t the only thing that was donated for free – Daniel King of the Change-Up Charity presented the little league coach with some new equipment to distribute to players who were unable to purchase their own gear.”The Change-Up Charity’s based [on] helping little kids who can’t really afford to play baseball or softball,” King said. “We just kind of take one for the team and help them out there. Our goal for this year will be to, help out as many kids as we can, who are can’t afford anything or do anything. So, I like to get out there as best we can.”
SHELBY, OH - Blue skies overlooked Shelby's Copperweld Field on Friday, as area landscaping companies Flashover Maintenance and RiverRun Solutions fixed up Shelby's five existing little league fields. RiverRun President Josh Horst talked about what went into the cleanup effort to get the field ready for the season. "We're here reconditioning the baseball fields for…