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Rehab
work at Sibrie Park commences
Coach eager
for improvements to be completed at park that once served as the heart
of local Little League
By
Allison Jean Eaton
Bulletin
Editor
COMPTON—It
might be fenced off and currently closed to the youth who regularly
frequent it, but once rehab work is completed at Sibrie Park, it will
again be bustling with activity.
That’s what Little League coach Luther Keith Jr. said last week as
he walked along the perimeter of the fence surrounding the park where he
years ago practiced and played baseball in the city’s Little League
program and shared with The Bulletin the slated improvements and his plans
once the park is reopened.
Keith said the city was supposed to begin replacing a water well
in the northwestern section of the park on Monday. Keith said the city
told him the replacement alone would take about a month to six weeks, and
he’s been told the park won’t be open to the public until sometime
in February or March of next year.
That’s thrown a monkey wrench of sorts into a group of residents’ efforts
to breathe new life into the city’s formerly defunct Little League,
which was officially resurrected in the spring of 2009.
Keith said that the Little League teams from Sibrie Park are currently
using Raymond Street Park and nearby Willowbrook Middle School while the
park is shut down.
Once the water well installation is complete, city workers will start
on the Little League field, Keith said. Installed will be a higher fence
surrounding the diamond, stadium lights, a miniature snack bar and a new
restroom. The park will also receive new playground equipment similar to
that seen at several of the city’s parks that have already been rehabilitated,
including Wilson Park in downtown Compton.
“I cannot wait,” he said. “We cannot wait. This is gonna
be a nice little park.”
He speculated that next spring, when Compton Little League holds
signups, 200 to 300 kids from the surrounding area would turn out.
Keith said he and the other men and women who have played major roles
in reviving Little League will also offer activities like softball for
girls, flag football and basketball at the park.
In the interim, while Sibrie Park is shut down, he and other Little
League proponents plan to offer winter baseball for kids who don’t
sign up for Pop Warner football in the fall. Practices for the winter league
will be held at Willowbrook Middle School, he said.
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