Now is the time you’ve all been waiting for.  The exciting, magnificent, interesting facts are here.  Let’s get our wheels rolling!  Have you ever seen the yellow pole right in the middle of the bike trail?  That is for keeping cars and other large vehicles off the trails.  Did you know they are going to continue the dead ends on the bike trails?  When they were first starting the trails they had archaeologists check the land for any historical artifacts.  Archeologists had to take soil samples of the land to see if it was stable.  They did not find any important Indian artifacts.  The entire cost of the bike trails was about $125,000.00.  Wasn’t that interesting?
           Put on your brakes, it’s the end of the ride.  We’ve seen how it all started, the rules and interesting facts.  See yah!

     The baseball fields are found at Route 83 and 76th Ave.  There are six fields there.  They are having problems with the new police parking lot by the north field.  Kids are hitting homeruns and breaking expensive equipment.  The Palos Baseball Association belongs to a member of pony Baseball age groups.  The Public Works department takes care of some of the land, but the majority of the work is done by the Palos Baseball Association.  There are tournaments held all the time. 
     The fields are approximately 28 years old.  The fields were opened in the early 1970’s.  There was nothing there on the property, but it was owned by NI Gas.  It was going to be used as a corporate headquarters for NI Gas, but the city hall bought the land and built the fields instead.  The night lights were bought so the men’s Softball League can play at night.  The league ran until 1994.  Then the baseball association took it over and it became the men’s and women’s and co-ed softball leagues. 
     The original baseball field owned by Palos Heights was on Harlem Ave.  where Palos Bank and Trust is now.  When someone hit a homerun it would be a safety hazard hitting the ball into traffic.  In the early 70’s they left the location and went to Community Park.  They put the fields at Community Park because a lot of kids wanted to play baseball and they needed to expand the number of fields they had.  The only open area in town was that land so they created a deal to build baseball fields.  Three of the fields are owned by Commonwealth Edison.  The recreation department borrowed the property to start a league.  The power lines were there when they built the fields. 
     PBO charges $125.00 to join plus fees.  The fields get between 700 to 800 kids a year.  The PBO puts the money that they receive into improving and maintaining the fields.