The goal of the park is to have a safe place for our youth to be able to play sports. Safe is the key word. We realize that with our end goal of having a concession stand and playground up here, children shouldn't need to worry about traffic. We decided to go a little nostalgic and rebuild the old Martins Motorcross roadway at the north of the property. This roadway will allow visitors to drive up and park in the soon to be built upper parking lot for the upper baseball games. We have closed the middle driveway and will put up a gate there to make that more permanent.  We will use that driveway to park food trucks and other vendors during events.  We think this will be amazing! We can't thank our Town of Moira Highway Department enough for the work they are doing for us there. We told them the vision and they are making it come true! 

The cold weather is finally behind us, and we’re thrilled to have made significant progress on the ballfields as soon as we could. However, this spring has brought an unexpected challenge with its persistent wet conditions, which made it difficult to accomplish much due to the softness of the ground. Despite these setbacks, we successfully installed temporary outfield fencing and tidied up the upper ballfield. This fencing not only gives the kids a sense of the field's dimensions but also adds to the excitement of the game—who wouldn’t love to see a HOME RUN?! We still had about half of the ballfield clay left to spread, and while it was a tough task, our team worked diligently to get it done. We had originally hoped to complete this last fall, but time slipped away from us. When spring arrived, the ground was so soft that it resembled wet concrete when we tried to work with it. We essentially poured the clay onto the field and raked it out to make it usable. After a few days of effort, we were able to drag and roll the clay to achieve a fantastic consistency. We even had the chance to lay down the first lines, giving us a glimpse of how the field will look. It’s truly exciting!

With so much work that had been done, we really wanted to get the soccer teams on the property if we could. Unfortunately, we were FAR from completing the location for the soccer fields on the left side of the driveway (South). We took the measuring tape out and found that we could squeeze a soccer field in between the two baseball/softball fields. You can tell from the view from above that we have very little grass to start with there, but we thought, you can't hurt it any more than it already is! Well, it was a dusty year for those kids! As they ran, you could see little clouds of dust forming from the pulverized dirt from all of the traffic. What an amazing feeling it was to see kids enjoying the fields like the vision we have all had for so many years. To see the cars all packing the tiny parking lot made our day!

When building the baseball fields, we really wanted this to be an extra special place for our youth to call home. We checked around to see what we could do for the infield to have less maintenance and a safer experience. We found that a company by the name Mar-co had available an infield ball mix that they name "Washington Ball mix".  Local fields in Massena use this same material for their little league fields with great success. This arrived in two tractor trailer loads from near Toronto. We cant wait to have you try it out!

When we mentioned concrete foundation for dugouts, we had no idea the blessing we were going to get. Without hesitation, we had an army of men that said, we will take care of it! Arnolds concrete in Malone Ny found out about the project and immediately said, we want to help as well. Arnolds donated MANY yards of concrete and sent it on a Saturday for us because they knew that's when our volunteers could do the job. Troy and Adam Martin took the lead with this project and boy did they have some help. Stephen and Bubbie Rabideau brought most of the tools over and they too helped out. Kasey and AJay Martin came up big again for us and put in some work!  Josh Barney and Al St.Hilare of BMYS along with Chad Niles and Justin Robinson from the Town of Moira supervised all the work :)