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Clear Creek Courant
Dozens of brand new tennis and racquetball rackets, athletic socks, baseball gloves, hockey gear and every kind of ball for every sport started to go quickly March 29 when the “gear drive” opened the doors at the Clear Creek Metropolitan Recreation Center in Idaho Springs.
Residents made a $10 donation for rec center programs and events and had their choice of anything scattered across the floor and tables.
“Just kind of a good moment for the community and hopefully help some people who need it,” Youth Sports Director Cameron Pehrson said.
Pehrson was hired at the rec center just a few months ago after moving to Idaho Springs from Arizona where he played college baseball for several years, he said.
Pehrson said the job fits like a glove for him and gives him an opportunity to give kids what he always needed as a kid himself.
“I think about the times playing sports and so-and-so had their jersey number messed up,” he said. “You know all these little things that went wrong that shouldn’t and make parents more stressed, so they don’t sign their kid up and that kid isn’t playing a sport that season.”
Most of the items up for grabs had been given to the rec center or were left at the end of a season, Pherson said. He also said a lot of the brand new gear had been donated by area sports stores that stepped up when he called them.
Area residents arrived as the doors opened at 1 p.m. and the items were snatched up by parents or their children whose wide eyes scanned the room looking for one more item. There was no limit on the number of items with the $10 donation Pehrson said.
Idaho Springs resident Joey Sullivan walked in to give his $10 and announced that the next kid who walked in could take whatever they wanted for free by using his donation.
“I just thought it would be the right thing to do, I have two bikes so I’m pretty fortunate… I know it’s only $10, but I try to give back what I can,” Joey Sullivan said.
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