In the summer of 1996 grade nine students Danny Bjerke, Gerry Bjerke, Matthew McHugh, CJ Jaworsky and Cory McNabb, built a baseball field in Miner’s Park. It took them a year to complete. They called the park Parker’s Field (park-or-field). Danny Bjerke came in to talk to grade 2-6 students at Coalhurst Elementary on November, 20, 2012. All of the students were excited because it was Sydney Bjerke’s dad and she is part of our history project.  The mayor at the time told the boys that they could fix up the field which is in Miners’ Park.   They made money from bottle drives, sold food and drinks. It cost about $3000. Danny and his friends got some supplies from the hardware store and got to work. First they put some grass on the old hard ground to make it soft. Then they did more things to make it even softer like taking most of all the rocks off the grass and mowing it. They put shale to mark the path where they would run the bases. Danny’s dad Gerry made a shed. Then the field was done and the boys were happy for all their hard work.