ParkSeedDayOne

Briceville Community Ball Park Restoration

In the fall of 2003, volunteers did the final grading, cleared the ground of large rocks and sticks, seeded, fertilized and mulched to assist in restoring the old ball park. After each work day, the Coal Creek church ladies fed the volunteers a delicious home cooked meal. Check out the photos below of some of the work and a description of the park in its heyday.

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Final product after lots of effort:

Nice, new picnic shelter ready for the community and friends to put to good use. Pictured is Rick Cox, whose construction company built the shelter.

Thanks for additional contributions for the shelter:

	Phillips and Jordan donated their $8,000 fee for their clearing and excavating services to the Coal Creek Scholars Program
	Windrock ATV Club rented a bulldozer for the initial weekend of clearing
	Premium Coal Company furnished a road grader to level the site
	Harrison Construction Co., Alcoa, TN, cut the price of the concrete
	Tennessee Aggregate, Caryville, TN donated one load of stone
	Duanes Trucking, Clinton, TN delivered the stone from Tennessee Aggregate at no charge

Brief summary of reviving the park:

First work day October 2002 The late Robert Glenn Poore (center) was a great community volunteer. On our first work day, Glenn was out there with his saw and weedeater helping to clear the park that he used to play ball on in the 1940s. He was a leader of the Briceville Volunteer Fire Department. He passed away during the tornado of November 2002.	The son of the late Robert Glenn Poore, Larry (second from left) and grand daughters Selicia and Amber Poore. Carl Leinart (left) and Owen Bailey (right) used to play ball at Briceville Park back in the 1940s and 1950s.
Windrock ATV Club and Volunteer Riders Club members worked on the park all weekend long at the beginning of the restoration project.
R.A. Lukar and Craig Smith, PE with Phillips and Jordan, Inc. before the clearing and grading. Phillips and Jordan donated the fee for their services to the Coal Creek Scholars Program.	Professional engineers Barry Thacker and Craig Smith discuss grading and drainage for park.

Roger Hooks provided a Bobcat to help with the work.		Bob Swisher, President of Premium Coal Company, provided and operated his road grader in the final preparation of the ball field
Former ball players Owen Bailey (left) and Carl Leinart (right) with reporter Kiernan Leonard of the Clinton Courier News, discussing the good ol' days at the ball park during its heyday.
Picking up stones, sticks, seeding, fertilizing and mulching:
	Carl Leinart who played ball at the park during its heyday.



Barry fills up the seed spreaders for the kids to help out.
	Some of the volunteers after the first seeding day.		Mrs. Mildred Simpson Curnutt is generously allowing her property to be used as the "Simpson Memorial Ball Park" in honor of her family.
A few of the fabulous cooks who always feed the Coal Creek Watershed volunteers.
VOLUNTEERS: Adams, Bobby Bailey, Zenith Bates, William Birchfield, Michelle Bolinger, Tammy Bray, Danny Bray, Jeremy Bray, Judy Brown, Steve Buffington, Buzz Childs, Jim Childs, Patty Daugherty, Della Daugherty, Roy Fritts, Debbie Fritts, Herb Geiger, Dick Hatmaker, Michelle Hayes, Winfrey Haymon, Ryan Hooks, Roger Hudgins, Larry Jackson, Willie Jenkins, Bob Jenkins, Mary Lamons, Ryan		Leinart, Carl Leinart, Chris Leinart, Jeremiah Leinart, Joe Leinart, Mary Lickliter, David Marathe, Andy Marlow, Donny Moore, Carol Poore, Amber Poore, Larry Poore, Selicia Powers, A.J. Rhea, Mary Russell, Timothy Seidner, Shane Strunk, Brian Swisher, Bob Thacker, Barry Thomas, Jeffrey Tinker, Brenda Waugh, Elaine Weaver, Lyndon Welch, Kaleasha Wilson, Ann Wilson, James Wilson, Tyler