When a maintenance or improvement project needs doing at Trinity Episcopal Day School, its boosters rise to the occasion — and Saturday was no exception.

That morning, a group of boosters were busy running an electrical line from the baseball field’s scoreboard to a batting cage just south of it, a distance of 250 feet.

&uot;They’ve been using an extension cord, but that tends to burn your (pitching) machine out,&uot; said booster Barbara Kirby, pointing to the batting cage.

So volunteer Brian Priest spent the latter part of Saturday morning driving a trencher, making a groove just deep enough to bury an electrical line.

Mark Godfrey, a booster and building and grounds volunteer, followed, placing the line in the trench.

They and other volunteers would spend the rest of Saturday helping ready another of the school’s ball fields for the start of softball season.

That involves many of the same tasks volunteers just completed at the school’s baseball field.

Jobs to be done to prepare the field included removing grass and filling in dirt around the bases, fertilizing and reseeding the field and tying up any loose corners of the field’s nets.

Why do Trinity’s volunteers spend so many hours helping spruce up the school?

&uot;Well … we didn’t have anything else to do this morning, so we figured we just come out here,&uot;&160;Godfrey said.

Seriously, Kirby said, parents of children who play sports at Trinity are expected to pitch in — or in the case of Alton Roberts, who was also helping install the electrical line Saturday, grandparents.

&uot;And at a small private school, you’ve got to rely on your volunteers to help get things done,&uot; Kirby said.

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