ABASA Asheville Buncombe Adult Soccer Association is at John B Lewis Soccer Complex.

2 days ago

Great to see over 100 volunteers on Easter Sunday cleaning JBL park! Many thanks to our friends ABYSA, HFC, @ashevillecitysc , and Asheville Ultimate for sharing your time with us. This community is an army! looking forward to our next mission....Max Out Memorial - see you all there!! #volunteers #community #soccerlife @ John B Lewis Soccer Complex ... See MoreSee Less

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3 days ago

Flooding not bad, minor set back, let’s go!Asheville Area Soccer Community:

ABASA, ABYSA and HFC are organizing a volunteer work day at JBL tomorrow, Sunday April 21st, from 12:00 noon until 4:00PM. Yes, we know it Easter, so just join us if you can.

Some things are beyond our control. Other things are within our control. Having looked at the setback from yesterday’s flood now that the waters have receded, we believe that actions we take now will speed up our return to play at JBL. We were so close, and given the much less severe scope of impact from this flood, we want to silence the nay-sayers that think JBL is unsustainable. We will play at JBL this spring and we can clean up floods much more quickly and inexpensively in the future with a proactive emergency action plan in place. Please see the details below if you are ready to take control of our destiny at JBL.

We can’t clean the turf. Astroturf is still under contract with the City, and as you will see tomorrow, they still/already have the equipment here to do that work. What we do need to do is remove debris from the rest of the park and take care of the general mess left behind by the flood. We need people to show up with the following tools:

· Flat shovels

· Wheel barrels

· Tarps

· Hard rakes

· Leaf rakes

· Pick-up or other truck that can haul debris to the overflow parking lot

· Need one fairly large chain saw that can cut a tree the size of a telephone pole

· Other gear that you think will help us with general clean-up of park landscape

Volunteers should show up at the field 1 parking lot at noon. We may need to park some people across the bridge at rec park. We can completely change what the park looks like after the flood with a great team effort tomorrow!

Thanks from the ABASA, ABYSA and HFC Leadership! ... See MoreSee Less

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