Amador County – Adam Dalton on Tuesday spoke about his dream to give back to Amador County by fixing the ball fields for the children.

The Jackson Rancheria Park & Field Restoration Project began with the Mollie Joyce Park baseball fields, where they had 90 people come out and volunteer to work. The outpouring of community support and volunteers inspired the family. Dalton said the county has given a lot to the Jackson Rancheria Band of Miwuk Indians and the Restoration Project has set out to fix the parks.

Dalton said people can come and volunteer, and get fed by the people of Volcano, or his brother, Dennis Dalton. Dennis brings his barbecue and cooks and feeds workers in Volcano Community Hall.

Volunteers have painted the public restrooms, Volcano Amphitheater, and the Volcano Post Office exterior. They will install new bathroom amenities, and have put in new park benches and will re-stripe the Post Office parking lot. Adam Dalton said Volcano is a park, and needed work. They put in wine barrel planters, and plan to have a chainsaw artist come and carve a bear from the burl of the tree on Main Street that was to be removed.

Dalton will also work on properties owned by Sharon Lungren, who was a partner in donating heavy equipment at Mollie Joyce. Dalton said they will work on renovating the interior of her Saint George Hotel and also build a rock garden patio behind the cafe at Main and Consolation streets.

Dennis Dalton talked about the project and invited volunteers and donors to Volcano to help. Adam Dalton said Tuesday that after completion of work at Volcano, and depending on volunteers and donations, the Jackson Rancheria Parks Restoration Project will next go to work with volunteers at Lions Park on Volcano-Sutter Creek Road. He hopes to put in some professional horseshoe pits, and refurbish it to be a place to hold weddings.

After that, also depending on volunteers and donations, the project will work in Plymouth. And after that, baseball season should be over, Adam Dalton said, and they plan to go to Jackson and Detert Park, his hometown, to refurbish the field. It all depends on volunteers and donations from those areas, he said, and as long as people support it, it will continue.

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