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June 2006

RECREATION CORNER
Clean-up crew dodges April showers
By Denise Senosk

Members of the Brookfield Major Girls softball team with coach Brenda McElroy spreading stone dust on the girls’ field. Cole Sheffler lends his time and tractor. Dianna Senosk puts her four years of culinary arts experience to work.

Clean up day at the Lewis Field Recreation Area was April 22. As usual, the same group of people got together to prep the fields spreading stone dust, hanging signs, applying the fence guard, edging the fields, and the list goes on. We also were able to clean up the basketball area, snack shack and playground and finish painting the pavilion. Unfortunately we ran out of time before the rain and hail hit (never mind the fact the guys were "spent") to get the new swing set up. We will need manpower to get this up. We will look at another date very soon. I can't thank enough all of you who joined us on the dreary day to make the recreation area look so nice. A special thanks to our out-of-town helpers Dave and Deb McDonald for a great paint job. Also to Cole Sheffler for cutting our work practically in half with the use of his tractor. We would sincerely like to thank the Highway Department for taking away the huge amount of trash we had after cleanup day.

Baseball/Softball
One month into the season, and all is going well. We had one broken nose when a young boy misjudged the ball during warm-up before the game, but otherwise all has been great. Hopefully we will be able to finish the season on schedule with all the games we have to make up from our rainy days.

Welcome new members
We would like to welcome a few new upcoming members to the Recreation Committee. As a couple of our terms are coming to an end and rumor has it, they will not be staying on, we have three people anxious to join us. Mike Lucas, Jeff Edwards and Rob Rice are in line to come aboard. Thank you; fresh faces and new ideas are always welcome.

Read previous columns from the Recreation Corner.