Bates Athletics Host L/A Community Day

Hello All,

I am pleased to announce that as a result of funds raised at our first-ever L/A Community Day, the Department of Athletics is able to present a check for $600 to the Atlantic Global Aid group that is coordinating the local famine relief effort targeting the drought that is affecting Somalia and the Horn of Africa.

L/A Community Day featured several free youth instructional sport clinics run by Bates coaches; three Lewiston & Auburn youth football games that were hosted on Garcelon Field prior to the Bates Football game and at halftime; campus tours; local vendors who provided giveaways, pumpkin decorating and face-painting; Bates contests in Field Hockey, Women's Soccer, Football and Men's Soccer; a live broadcast from Garcelon Field by WOXO radio station; and of course the famine relief fund-raising effort where the Athletic Department donated the proceeds from its sale of concessions, merchandise, and game programs.

The spirit of the day was captured in the following email received from a local resident:

"I was very impressed at the way my son's youth team was treated at the Bates community day Saturday afternoon. Coach Capone gave us a great deal of his time and made the kids feel like gold. Ryan Weston was well spoken and a true gentleman with the players. Ryan sent a great message to the kids and it meant a lot to them. I know the message sunk in because later Saturday when my 4th grader was asked to do something it shocked his mom that he did it without a fight. When she asked if he was okay Storm said that the Bates coaches and player says he needs to listen to his parents if he wants to play Football. I can assure you I will certainly pass along how much class that we were shown by the Bates Football program. Thank you very much and please pass this along to Ryan."

As well as the following email from Dick Gleason, the Mayor of Auburn:

"Hi Kevin, Congratulations and thanks from the community for Saturday's outstanding events. Proof, that Bates is not an island."


Thanks again to all who helped make L/A Community Day such a success and to all of you who came out to the events,

Kevin