GB--can't follow your post--are you saying this is good or bad?  I thought it sounded ok.

GB is suggesting the correct method

Yes, it is a GOOD thing.

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ROTTERDAM JUNCTION
Challenger Baseball finally gets a home
BY JUSTIN MASON Gazette Reporter

    Richard Dickershaid watched two decades of work come to fruition when the Challengers took the field at Woestina Park this week.
    The longtime commissioner and one of the founders of the Challenger Tri-County Baseball League had been searching for a permanent home for his players ever since they split from the Rotterdam Little League during the late 1990s. He finally secured them one this winter, when the Little League agreed to share the little-used ballpark off Route 5S in Rotterdam Junction.
    “You’re looking at my dream,” he said, as young players slowly trickled onto the field during a mild Monday evening.
    With an agreement in place, Dickershaid and other volunteers with the Challengers went to work on the fields, which had fallen into disrepair after not being used for three years. Now, with roughly $50,000 invested into the field, Dickershaid and other league officials are confident his Challengers will have a home to call their own long into the future.
    Since March, worker and volunteers have been overhauling the three fields, renovating the concession stand and cleaning up the woodland areas surrounding the park. The Challengers invested almost $14,000 into materials for the field alone and even installed an in-ground sprinkler system to water the grass.
    “We put this park back on its feet,” Dickershaid said.
    The Challengers, a baseball league for developmentally disabled youths and adults, was started in 1987 as part of the Rotterdam Little League and had about two dozen players. Dickershaid, who was left handicapped after suffering tuberculosis of the spine, made the league a personal mission along with his wife, Margy.
    “I couldn’t have done it without her,” he confessed.
    After 11 years of affi liation together, the two leagues split. Dickershaid said the split was partially so the Challengers could begin accepting players over the age of 18. ....................>>>>................>>>>...................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r01300&AppName=1

Some said having the Challengers play there was worse and more unjust than selling the Little League fields to Larned. What a perverse point of view that was in the rear view mirror. Apparently something good came of it all without a cost to the taxpayers in any real sense. Now if we were to be that fortunate in the other instance...

The Challenger Leagues revitalization of the ballfields and facilities at Woestina is one of the success
stories of the TeamRotterdam approach to solving problems in our town.   It is this same approach
that will build a new general-use town park, a community recreation and activity center, and make
other improvements to our town's parks and recreation system.

So the Challenger Leaue revitalization of the fields at Woestina is due to Frank delGallo and the democrat team?

Quoted from GrahamBonnet

So the Challenger Leaue revitalization of the fields at Woestina is due to Frank delGallo and the democrat team?

The Challenger League revitalization of Woestina Park was due to a large group of volunteer laborers and
financial contributors who regardless of political affiliation or any other "tag" said  .. WE WANT TO WORK
TOGETHER TO BRING POSITIVE CHANGE/IMPROVEMENT to the town that we love.    

TEAMRotterdam is a non-partisan, grass roots approach to bring ANYONE who wants to make Rotterdam a
great place to live.      

Oh, because a few days ago in a post you attributed the Woestina Park fields turnaround to the new administration. I just want to be clear of what you were saying. Where did the money come from? Last fall when you went to the forum at the senior center you said it was "political" that the Challenger's finally had a field of their own at Woestina. Now you seem to be taking credit for it for your "team." Do you still mean that, because I have a DVD of it. Or do you want to retract that.

Quoted from GrahamBonnet

Oh, because a few days ago in a post you attributed the Woestina Park fields turnaround to the new administration. I just want to be clear of what you were saying. Where did the money come from? Last fall when you went to the forum at the senior center you said it was "political" that the Challenger's finally had a field of their own at Woestina. Now you seem to be taking credit for it for your "team." Do you still mean that, because I have a DVD of it. Or do you want to retract that.

I won't assume you are ignorant -- just acting ignorant --  so i will repeat what I actually posted:
The Challenger League revitalization of Woestina Park was due to a large group of volunteer laborers and financial contributors who regardless of political affiliation or any other "tag" said  .. WE WANT TO WORK TOGETHER TO BRING POSITIVE CHANGE/IMPROVEMENT to the town that we love.    

TEAMRotterdam is a non-partisan, grass roots approach to bring ANYONE who wants to make Rotterdam a great place to live.      

As for my remarks at the Senior Center last year -- I was speaking about the article in the Daily
Gazette right before the election -- trying to make a political issue out of the Challengers efforts
to get use of the Woestina ball fields.      
The fact is that I had supported the Challengers being able to use the Woestina ballfields from the
time their league president spoke with me about it in the summer of 2009.
If you are the bald former county legislator  -- you are just blowing more hot air out your back side.

Oh, that is not what you said here a few days ago. This was the "work of Del Gallo and all the progess blah blah blah."

Why don't you say specifically who made sure they got the fields, and who paid for them to be rehabbed after years of abuse and neglect. Or are you going to repost pablum and not be clear. Once again, like all democraps around here- you take all credit for the good, and the sh*t is laid squarely on the backs of the GOP. Just like Savage and the rest. You are so full of sh*t, no wonder you can never as long as you live get elected to sh*t-shoveller even though this is an overwhelmingly democrap enrollment-advantage town!

Quoted from GrahamBonnet

Oh, that is not what you said here a few days ago. This was the "work of Del Gallo and all the progess blah blah blah."

Why don't you say specifically who made sure they got the fields, and who paid for them to be rehabbed after years of abuse and neglect. Or are you going to repost pablum and not be clear. Once again, like all democraps around here- you take all credit for the good, and the sh*t is laid squarely on the backs of the GOP. Just like Savage and the rest. You are so full of sh*t, no wonder you can never as long as you live get elected to sh*t-shoveller even though this is an overwhelmingly democrap enrollment-advantage town!

You are the one full of sh*t ... you sound more and more like the bald former county legislator ...
and if you are him --- just a message .... the foul smell left the County Office Building when you left
it.

The only credit that I gave was to the Challenger league and all those who helped them out.

OK, fair enough. Because the CHALLENGERS did it, no one from the town or the Little League or any other in your political clique made that happen. THEY paid for it ALL and made the place incredibly nice, and your "gang" didn't have the balls to stand up for them even though the bullies were threatening them from the other league. Too bad moral courage is in short supply on your side of the aisle. Even though they all showed up on opening day to suck up.

Quoted from GrahamBonnet

OK, fair enough. Because the CHALLENGERS did it, no one from the town or the Little League or any other in your political clique made that happen. THEY paid for it ALL and made the place incredibly nice, and your "gang" didn't have the balls to stand up for them even though the bullies were threatening them from the other league. Too bad moral courage is in short supply on your side of the aisle. Even though they all showed up on opening day to suck up.

I can only speak for myself -- I stood up for the Challengers from the moment that I met their
league's president and learned that they were looking for a field.

I was a part of getting the 3 sides to come together and discuss/work out the issue.

and although you accuse me of doing things for political gain - you probably noticed that I did not go
out on the field on opening day  -- I was invited to by the league .. but I felt that it was THEIR DAY.
I was happy to watch from the bleachers

TEAM-Rotterdam is a philosophy NOT a specific person or group of persons.   The whole idea is that
residents come together to make their town better  ... and the "bright lights" can shine on the
whole town rather than just a few glory seekers.