1 Year Ago Today It All Began

(hedonia.seantimberlake.com)

One year ago today, September 21, 2010, the battle to save Roberts Stadium began with this blog. 13,734 viewers and 365 days later, we've made tremendous progress towards winning that battle.

I can't thank you the viewers of this blog enough for all of your support. Since this blog began, the overwhelming amount of opposition to building the ball fields at Wesselman Park has all but sealed their fate. Without this opposition, we would have been stuck with 8 boring and dull ball fields on the site of our historic and legendary Roberts Stadium.

I am extremely confident we will clear all remaining hurdles that are left in this battle. We have cleared the ball fields hurdle but still must clear the hurdle of getting a renovation plan adopted by city hall.

For this reason, it is extremely important that we put the right people in office for the next round of battles. On the right hand side of this blog, you will see the candidates who have given me a verbal commitment that they will give a good faith effort to save Roberts Stadium.

To see this project to the finish, I am going all in on both saving Roberts Stadium and building the ball fields at Kleymeyer Park. For too many years, our city has refused to take care of existing buildings, existing neighborhoods, and existing infrastructure while expanding with costly, inefficient, and dull buildings, neighborhoods, and infrastructure. We cannot keep this trend going. If our city residents cannot take a stand against these terrible practices this time around, they may never be able too.

With all of that being said, I ask you the supporters of Roberts Stadium to keep this momentum going. Keep emailing both councils, the ECVB, the mayor, the Parks Dept, the Building Authority, any candidate running for office, the Courier & Press, and anyone else you think will make a difference in this project.

One year ago today, the qwest to save Roberts Stadium began. Let's make sure that one year from now it's MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

(janjanadventure.blogspot.com)