ADAMA Canada Donates $5,000 To Help Revive Eston’s Ball Diamond

ADAMA Canada, a global leader in crop protection, announced a donation of $5,000 to the Eston Recreation Committee to improve its local ball diamond last week. This donation is part of All In On Your Stomping Grounds, a new initiative to help fund community projects across the country.

The money will be used to help install an irrigation system on the ball diamond, which has been a project long in the making. For decades there has been no means to water the diamond, which has made upkeep challenging given the hot and dry climate in west-central Saskatchewan. Garrett Turner, Recreation Director for the Town of Eston, said this year there are 14 minor baseball teams using the field, which is more than the community has seen in years. The ball diamond wasn’t equipped for this much use, so it’s resulted in teams having to play games out of town.

“We’re very grateful for the donation and know this will help give our teams a home field advantage at a much greener ball diamond,” said Turner. “Installing a new irrigation system will be a necessary first step in making the ball diamond functional for the growing baseball community we’ve developed over the years. The kids deserve a diamond they can play in safely and this will help make that happen.”

The Eston ball diamond is one of 19 initiatives supported by ADAMA Canada’s All In On Your Stomping Grounds program, which issued a cross-country call for Canadians to share community space improvement projects, agricultural education projects or community food bank projects in their hometowns that needed funding earlier this year. The program donated up to $10,000 to each recipient and a total of $120,000 after receiving 60 applicants.

“We understand the pride of being from a small town and we could tell how important it was for ADAMA to support the Eston Recreation Committee on this project,” said Cornie Thiessen, General Manager for ADAMA Canada. “Initiatives that build community are the reason we wanted to create All In On Your Stomping Grounds, and we’re looking forward to using the fund to continue to help improve communities all over Canada.”