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Menomonie (WQOW) – A major league baseball team is going to bat
for a local community.
The City of Menomonie was recently
awarded a $10,000 grant from the Minnesota Twins. The money will be used to make improvements
to a baseball diamond at Lake Wakanda Park. Right now, the field can only be used for practice, but the city hopes
to make the field usable for games by adding dugouts and a backstop
and fence.
"The demand for a community of our size of 16,000 we have
seen a need to have an additional game-ready field. This would allow us to schedule more games
for league play as well as hosting of tournaments," says Gary Barnett, Menomonie
Parks and Recreation director.
On Monday, the city council will decide
whether or not to accept the grant at it's meeting. The city would still need to raise the
matching funds and pay for any additional costs attached to the project.
