One hot summer afternoon will I was
watching my little sister play a softball game, me and my brothers began
talking about Eagle Scout Projects that we were looking for. Before that day we
had visited numerous organizations including the City Hall, Fish and Wildlife,
museums, etc… with no luck we just went through the same thing writing our names and numbers on a piece of paper for them to look at later. That’s when it
hit me! I began thinking about the boys` baseball fields over at City Park.
They were nice, accessible, had plenty of shade, and could hold a multitude of
people. The girls’ softball fields on the other hand were very ghetto,
desolate, and did not stop the weather at all. It could rain, blow, or just
blaze hot around you, but you would still have little protection there. Then as
I looked around I also noticed the field my sister was playing on didn’t even
have a scoreboard. It didn’t stop there, in between the first and second fields
there was a very run down partial fence around a playground with some dead trees.
I knew what my project would be
immediately. When I explained to my parents the project they didn’t think I
would be able to do it, let alone start with a few thousand dollars needed. I
convinced them after a conversation about donations they agreed. We immediately
left to go find people to donate. We went around to twelve people from our unit and collected $3,000. After that I went to lumber store to get bids, Bloedorn Lumber was the best for a new six foot chain-link fence. We were able to buy it using the
donations and some of my own money as well.
