Clean Up and Buildings at Rugby Complex Site
The foundation is happy to announce that Bob Cunningham of Cunningham Excavating has donated 4 class room modulars for the rugby complex at Mather Regional Park. These class rooms were in use at Sierra College until Dec 20,07. The class rooms are 24X40 and with the Men's/women's bathrooms total 3400 square feet.They include heating and air conditioning with drop ceilings. The foundation paid $21,000 to move the modulars to the site.The buildings have a conservative value of $200,000.
In preparation for recieving the buildings, a volunteer group gathered Dec 16 to clean up the site.
The Clean up day was very successful with 16 rugby volunteers and friends that showed up at 9:00am and worked at cleaning up tires,home water heaters,concrete and tree debris for 4 hours. Charlie Ansbach, our campaign fundraising manager, took control of the lawn mower and proceeded to groom our future site for the temporary classrooms and restrooms.At the half mark, Board member Bill Bisharat took over the controls of the mower and finished the job with a try by the entrance road. The first rugby whistle was blown by referee, JC Von Straden. The whistle went due to an unusual up and under into the 30 yard container which was filled to the brim, as was the concrete container. Both containers were provided by the County of Sacramento Parks and Recreation asst. director, Jill Ritzman. Chainsaws were screaming provided by Steve Heberle and son and Jerry Ahlin cutting up and piling the dead tree limbs for future chipping.
Those in strong support for this FIRST DAY at the Rugby Fields were: Matt Eason, Sam Reagle, Steve Dormann, Craig Leoni, Jerry Wood, Steve Heberle, Mitchell Heberle, Tony Sainz, Dan Rose, Jeff Albrecht and Dylan Turner. A backhoe and front end loader was provided by board member, Pete Deterding and his operator handled the backhoe like a surgeon with a scapel. He made that machine work. High School Commissioner and board member, Ray Thompson supported all positions and maintained constant recycling of the work effort.
The site looks great and we now have three buildings 24x40 and one restroom 12x40 in the parking lot waiting for permits to be placed and hooked up to services and readied for use. This is the beginning of more good news about our future rugby site for rugby in Northern California.