After over a year in the planning stages, it finally happened!
What an amazing coming together of: people with the vision and determination; people with skills or at least a willing spirit; people with food and drink; people with sand and soil — and the trucks to haul it; and people with the necessary tools and machinery.
Thanks to all who helped — and a special thanks to Kevin Chisholm for his outstanding leadership and commitment on this project.
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The deep tine aerating and reseeding was done by a contractor, FarmTek of Langley on Friday, July 10. (Moist soil was a problem earlier in the week.)
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Date(s): June 26-27, 2009. Album by Barry Stewart. Photos by Barry Stewart. 1 - 118 of 118 Total. 919 Visits.
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76265136 Chris Trayer, delivering one of 22 truckloads of donated sand from Fred Green's Tum Tum pit in Silver Creek.
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76265144 Barry, checking for a hidden sprinkler head. "Brad! Turn it on, so I can find it!"
76265146 Kevin marks a low spot, for pre-filling with soil.
76265148 The District of Hope, donating topsoil.
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76265152 Arne and a little overspray.
76265153 Garry chats with fellow-employee, Mack Barber.
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76265156 Arne chats with equipment operators, Kurt Weidenbacher (l) and Fred Talarico (r).
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76265161 Turf wars. Fred and Kurt fight to pick up a clod of grass.
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76265163 Four loads came in from the District truck and one went away with peeled-off scraps from the high spots.
76265165 Robin, Zach (top) and Rod Mudie remove the nets, so the frame can be repaired.
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76265169 The Mudies: Rod, Heather, Zachary and Robin. They came at 9:00 and stayed till 4:00!
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76265174 Picking stones out.
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76265181 Les McAllister delivers donated soil and sand from Hope Redi-Mix.
76265182 And the firefighters arrive....
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76265185 "And over here is the Promised Land!"
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76265190 Rebecca Arrowsmith.
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76265194 Kevin gets the "high-vis" vest from Al Berry.
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76265197 Garry, Daniel and Rebecca Arrowsmith.
76265199 Judith Arrowsmith, with goodies.
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76265210 Arne and Brad Bourel (of School District #78.).
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76265213 Bruce Becker.
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76265218 "We're missing somebody...."
76265226 Field Committee members. Front: Barry Stewart, Kevin Chisholm, Arne Zabell. Back: Al Berry, Bruce Becker, Brad Bourel, Garry Arrowsmith.
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76265239 Outgoing school superintendent, Wes Neumeier, incoming superintendent, Karen Nelson, and "field superintendent", Kevin Chisholm.
76265242 More to come, from Saturday...
76275243 Pat Anderson brought along a loader from Universal Contracting and made short work of the stockpiled sand.
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76275246 Pat Anderson, soccer dad.
76275247 Brad spreading out the highs and lows.
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76275249 Fred Talarico gave a lift to Don Garrett and his Bobcat.
76275251 This was the day for Hope Minor Soccer players and their parents... perhaps as many as 30, figures Bruce.
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77105321 July 10, deep tine aerating punched holes 7-8 inches into the soil.
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77105324 Carl, of FarmTek, did the work.
77105328 12 big spikes, driven by the tractor's PTO.
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77105335 "Drill" seeder, top view.
77105336 Seeds drop down from hopper (next).
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77105339 Bottom view. Disks come together to cut a small furrow, which seeds are set in.
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77105343 Seed bags.
77105344 Before seeding, a chain was dragged to do a final leveling and knock the sand into the holes.
77105345 Old base plate? Dug up by spikes.
77105348 Drop-in soccer players helped clean up the area where the portables had been, especially the crushed gravel. (Wednesday).
77105349 Now Grow! Field SHOULD be playable by September. The biggest concern will be a strong-enough root structure in the sandy areas.
77165559grass Grass is riz, after only 6 days!
77165560grass July 16.
77205711 20th of July. Fertilizer is spread.
77245714 Barry and Steve Wilson of Emil Anderson, scoping out the CE Barry field for level. Equipment borrowed from Hope Machine Shop.
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78055780 Coquihalla, with 2x 15 minutes per zone per week. CE Barry fared better, though. Better soil, thinks Brad.
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79117219 Damage by joy riders in early September. The District of Hope supplied a crew and rolling machine to flatten things down.
