My son Nathan started baseball practice last week. Now that he’s old enough for the peewee league, he’s playing at our community’s new regional sports complex. The project was funded by Great Outdoors Colorado, which is supported by lottery money. It’s a beautiful facility and close enough to our home that we can walk to it.
However, many communities are sorely in need of help to maintain their ball fields and don’t have the funds or grants to do so. That’s why I’m helping get the word out about Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes Plant a Seed program.
Out of hundreds of fields submitted to www.frostedflakes.com, 30 have been chosen as finalists from across the country. Many fields are used heavily by their local communities, but the town or the school district doesn’t have funds to maintain them properly.
How you can help
Stop by www.frostedflakes.com and vote for a field – either one in your community or one by you. (I voted for one near my childhood home in New Jersey.) You can do this once a day until May 31, 2009.
You can also share about the voting on your own blog or on Twitter by tweeting “Vote on helping communities maintain their ball fields at http://www.frostedflakes.com #plant-a-seed.”
It’s sad that when we’re trying to encourage kids to get outdoors more and be physically active, our local ball fields aren’t up to the task. I’m glad that Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes Plant a Seed program is trying to help.
