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| Prison crews keeping parks in shape |
| By starbeacon.com |
| Published: 09/02/2009 |
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CONNEAUT — Caretakers at two of Conneaut’s most popular parks heaped praise on inmate work crews from the Lake Erie Correctional Institution at the prison’s annual Media Day event Tuesday morning. Prison administrators, led by Warden Rich Gansheimer, devoted the program to the LaECI’s popular community service programs. The event was held at Township Park, one of the primary beneficiaries of the outdoor program. “You can see the benefits of the work (inmates) have done here,” said Dave Dickson, the park’s superintendent. Since 2001, the prison has been sending a small team of carefully-screened, closely monitored inmates outside the gate as free labor for non-profit organizations. The inmates provide free labor, handling jobs ranging from mowing to painting. The work crews also spend a lot of time at the Skippon Park ball fields, home to the Conneaut Local Youth Organization’s Skippon Park ball field complex on Center Street. Harry Church, maintenance coordinator for the CLYO, said the help provided by the inmate crew is invaluable. He recalled the time one crew member suggested — and then constructed — a drainage system to rid one field of standing water. “What a great help (the program) is,” Church said. “Without the inmates’ help, the park wouldn’t look like it does. We can do so much, but we can’t do it all.” Read More. |
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