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World Series Excitement Surrounds Lamar, Colorado
Workers laughed and played around the ball fields as they finished up the Valley National Bank field and concrete walkways Tuesday in Lamar, Colorado. “World Series 2009 WILL happen,” Warren Camp stated as he dredge floated the concrete one more time, assuring a smooth surface for foot traffic. Valley National Bank field will be the only field finished in time for the Cal Ripken 2009 World Series coming to Lamar in mid August. Concrete between the field headers was nearly complete, and forms were being run for sidewalks that would be poured through the coming week. =======ADVERTIZE======== PLACE YOUR AD HERE! ======================
Cal Ripken World Series 2009 – Lamar, Colorado
Slated for the 13 – 22 of August, the Cal Ripken World Series 2009 has heated up the community for most of the past three years. Excitement, enthusiasm, frustration and potential bankruptcy? The emotional outcry from the community still blasts the local paper forum almost daily.
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World Series – Fields of Green in Lamar, Colorado
“If you build them, they will come…” Kevin Costner’s famous haunting words kept him working late into the night to replace corn fields in the heart of Iowa. Here in southeastern Colorado, the corn fields are sunflowers and sage brush, but Recreational Director, Rick Akers, along with the worker bees of the City of Lamar are busting butt to build the World Series Fields of Green on the southern edge of Lamar, Colorado. Just a stone’s throw from the World Famous Sand & Sage Fair Rodeo Arena, the new World Series fields were named a week ago in a ceremony at City Council, Valley National Bank Field and Citizen’s Field. Two of the four desired fields may be finished in the nick of time, just three weeks away. Jillaine Hixon remembered her Grandfather, Ernest Eddleman donating the massive chunk of land to the County for use in Sports, Recreation, but mostly for Education. Lamar Community College is built on one section of that land, East of US Hwy 287. The Lamar City Sports Complex and Sand and Sage Fair and Rodeo Grounds are built on the section west of the highway and south of Savage Blvd. ==================================== ALCO STORES Visitors read more…