Community Drive Pushes Towards $1 Million Grant to Upgrade Elings Park Ballfields

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - If the community can complete a $200-thousand fundraising drive, Elings Park in Santa Barbara is going to get a $1-million grant for an improvement project.

Specifically it will go to badly needed repairs and reconstruction at three ballfields.

Those playing on the fields say they have seen a deterioration with gopher holes and some slumping of the outfields.

Teams play regularly every week in leagues that include men, women and co-eds.

They know the fields well, and because the park was built on an old city dump, the soil is irregular in many areas.

The drive to raise money ends this month. The donor has not been named who has the funds available.

For more information go to: Elings Park

(More details, photos and video will be available later today.)