Several people in a small community in south central Ohio, where like many other communities who have been hit hard by the decline in the economy, have lost their jobs due to the closing of many of the factories in the area. In an effort to balance the budget, one of the first programs that the local government cut at the beginning of the year was the children’s youth leagues. In an effort to provide recreation for the children of the community, a committee was formed to undertake the task of running the youth leagues without the help or financial support of the local government. About the same time that this committee was being formed, another group nominated the local baseball park, Mitchell Field, for a contest that was being held by Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes. The Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes Plant A Seed contest started out with several thousand entrants, and the end result of the contest is that 30 sports fields across the nation will be renovated by the Kellogg’s company. Fortunately, Mitchell Field has made it to the final stage of the competition. The final stage consists of 100 nominees and will be narrowed down to the top 30 fields who will have their fields renovated by Kellogg’s. The renovation of the field is something that is desperately needed (the community hasn’t had the funds to update the fields & there is not a lot of recreation for the children in this small community - most are involved in the sports leagues). This years summer league sign-ups included over 400 children, which to some big cities may seem like a small amount, but to a rural community like this, it is a lot of children to be left with nothing to do during the summer months. Now the sports leagues are being run by volunteers with no financial support from the local government.
The winning fields will be chosen by a combination of amount of votes received, and by contest judges. Please help to get as many votes as possible for Mitchell Field so that it will be one of the top 30. This is a small community, not a big city like some of the other contenders (Indianapolis, IN for example) and needs the support of everyone. The voting for this final stage of the contest is for the entire month of May and ends the last day of May. Each person may vote once per day from an email address. Mitchell Field is currently holding it’s own now (staying between numbers 15 - 25 on the list of fields), but in order to stay competitive in the contest, more votes are needed. It would be a big boost to the local community to have this field renovated, not only from the perspective of much desperately needed updates to the fields but also for the moral boost that it would give a small community that hasn’t had much good luck lately.
You can help by voting for Mitchell Field in the Kellogg’s Plant A Seed contest.
Here is a direct link to vote for Mitchell Field:
http://www.frostedflakes.com/PLANT-A-SEED/FIELD/74571/FIELD.ASPX
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