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25 Fields for Oregon Exceptional athletes expands its scope By CRAIG MURPHY mation to people in the seed Of the Keizertimes and turf communities about It all started with the seem- what the project could mean. ingly simple idea of adding In addition, there have much-needed soccer fi elds. been conversations about the But the 25 fi elds for Or- site being the future home egon project has expanded for OSU Extension Service far beyond that. in Marion County. Carrie Cool, execu- “They’d like to be in tive director for the project Marion County where farm- launched in late 2012, had ers can more easily access it,” originally hoped to have 25 Cool said. “Partnering with soccer fi elds open by the start us, they can have the acre- of 2014 on 195 acres of land age they need for incubator along Chemawa and Portland farms and exhibits.” Roads, approximately across Having 25 fi elds would al- I-5 from Volcanoes Stadium. low researchers to try differ- “We’re still working on it,” ent techniques and see what Cool told the Keizertimes ear- the results of each would be. lier this month. “We will see “There isn’t anywhere in it through. It’s a whole pro- the world that there’s a liv- cess. It’s not easy.” ing laboratory for the study That’s because Cool and of impact on sports turf,” other 25 fi elds Cool said. project lead- “They don’t ers have been have anyone forming part- running on nerships with it before and members of after the rain, the agricul- they don’t tural com- — Carrie Cool have chemical munity, with research. With a focus on re- this, they search that can be done. That could do different blends has included conversations (of chemicals) to see how with people like Steve Reid, that would work. There are a researcher at Oregon-based all of these different aspects DLF Pickseed. now how we can join with “We talked about the im- the agricultural community, plications for chemical re- which is something we’ve search like fertilizers used on been looking at for a long all parks,” Cool said. “There time. It’s a win-win situation. are implications for using It has really started to gel.” better and less chemicals. We Different fi elds could have talked about machinery re- different seed blends, irriga- search. Then we talked about tion protocols or turf man- public education and more. agement techniques. Reid We talked about all of these has joined the 25 fi elds of potential uses for the fi elds. Oregon board to help. There’s nothing like it in the “We understand the sports world to have a living labora- club side of things, but to tory for a sports fi eld. (Reid) manage all of this scientifi c said it is like a researcher’s stuff would be another entire dream come true.” education for me,” Cool said. Cool has also had conver- “We’re bringing in people sations with offi cials at Or- that get this. They all seem egon State University regard- genuinely excited about our ing turf management. Two idea.” project members have made Based on earlier timelines trips to Washington, D.C. to coming and going, Cool is give public education infor- hesitant to give an estimate on when the fi elds might be open. Besides, she is wrapped up with the project’s growth at this point. “All along we’ve had to have strong relationships with JULY 17, 2015, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A11 “We will see it through. It’s a whole process.” Submitted Marion County Special Olympics took a contingent of more than 10 athletes to the Oregon State Games in Newberg July 11 and 12. Oregon stakeholders,” Cool said. “Did we realize there was this ripple effect and all of these positive things? We thought there must be some- thing, but we had no idea it was this big. To possibly give Marion County Extension a home, we didn’t realize that was possible or how impor- tant it could be. “We were looking for agricultural stakeholders ties, but we didn’t realize to what extent we could re- ally partner with them,” she added. “We didn’t grasp what the agricultural community needed. This is big and re- ally cool. We haven’t met a stakeholder yet that is nega- tive on it. We have a positive impact on everyone we’ve met with.” Cool is fi ne with the ex- panded scope of her project. “It’s going to be really re- warding to have this facility that started as a youth sports park and is now so much more,” she said. “It’s not just for Keizer, Salem or Marion County, it’s for the Oregon agricultural community.” Where history comes alive! The Great Oregon Steam-Up July 25 - 26 and August 1-2 Sponsored in part by Amtrak and Covanta Join us for this Educational and FUN event! ACTION! 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Trevor McGill pitched the eighth and ninth and got his fi rst save but not without al- lowing the Volcanoes their last run. Chris Shaw hit his second homer of the season over the right fi eld fence. Eric Sim pitched the eighth and EJ Encinosa the ninth for Salem-Keizer. “Sometimes your negatives cancel out your positives,” Vol- cano manager Kyle Haines said. “We’ve got to play a complete game.” “We’re defi nitely going to be punching back,” was Viz- caino’s observation. “We need to communicate more on de- fense.” Duggar, who has not let a hitting slump affect his fi elding, said, “We’ve just got to put this behind us, just keep trying to win the fi rst game of a series.” Two players and an umpire were knocked down by foul balls in the game, but they all stayed in. In the third, Hinojosa hit himself. Allen was hit by a foul off the bat of McCall in the fourth. A ball Francis hit in the sixth knocked plate umpire Drew Boatman to the ground. crossword SWEEP, continued from Page A10 Moss singled and went to third base on a double by Steven Duggar. Miguel Gomez drove both home with a single and went to second on a throw. CJ Hinojosa reached fi rst on an error with Gomez going to third. Hinojosa moved to second as Chase Compton walked, and Julio Pena singled both runners home. Vancouver’s Andrew Guil- lotte hit the only home run of the game with two out in the ninth, but that was as far as the Canadians got. Nick Gonzalez, who was the opening day starting pitcher for Salem-Keizer, con- tinued to have trouble and was relieved after one inning. Luis Pino, the second of four Volcano relievers, got the vic- tory. Vancouver starter Clinton Hollon took the loss.