Steve GannBarnaby's Junkyard?
May 13th 2011 03:25
Next year will be the twentieth anniversary of the achievement. Can we still be as proud of it today as we were on that glorious spring day in 1992? I took a few pictures to illustrate that the answer to my question is heartbreaking.
I wrote a story two years ago about a small town in Ohio that lost their manufacturer that employed seventy percent of the town. Facing devastation the town came together to make sure that the little league could play ball that year. They were able to raise 15,000 to ensure that they had the minimum amount of balls, gloves, and bats to last a season. A man two states away in Illinois read the article and thought that if a player hit a homerun they should get to keep the ball, so he donated twelve dozen balls to the town.
I know this is a caring community full of people who would do whatever they could to help a neighbor. That attituide has been shown recently in the tremendous response to the victims of the recent storms. We can not only fix up Barnaby's but can make it even better. I would love to see nets for the soccer goals, a sandbox for the younger children, and splash pads for kids of all ages.
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