Things are looking up on the slowpitch front, with 17 teams participating in this year’s league play. Last Wednesday evening, when The Leader visited the slowpitch diamonds on Caribou Trail, eight teams were in action and the mood seemed buoyant.
There was some grumbling evident, however, about the state of the grounds, on account of it being a construction zone. Plus, the parking lot was in its usual early spring state of looking more like the surface of the lake on a windy day than a patch of gravel.
A call to the Town of Slave Lake turned up a few details on the shape of the facility. Karl Hill of the town says the Job Corps is in the process of building new dugouts and should be finished this week. Last year’s dugouts were destroyed by vandalism – not the first time it’s happened. The new ones are ‘beefier’, Hill says.
As for the parking lot, Hill says the nearby sewer construction project was using it as ‘a staging area’, which inhibited any efforts that might have been made to grade it. That grading will now happen (perhaps already has), Hill promises.
As for the state of the fields, Hill says the town will continue to work with the slowpitch association to improve the situation.
Annellen Eiserman, slowpitch association president, says the turnout is encouraging and looks forward to a good season.
There’s a clean-up bee scheduled for the first Monday in June (postponed from earlier due to rain) and she says a good turnout there would go a long way to improving the condition of the grounds.

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