‘Sweet Home Decatur’
Posted on Thursday, August 28, 2008
DECATUR - Fans will sing "Sweet Home Decatur"at Decatur football games this year.
At a Monday night meeting, the Decatur Booster Club began planning its activities for the year. Club president Lenny Meeks told parents local musician Mike Duncan will revise the Lynyrd Skynyrd classic "Sweet Home Alabama"for the town and sing it publicly for the first time at tonight's athletics cookout.
Plans have been made to display the words on a screen so fans can join in the chorus at home games.
Students, parents and community members are invited to tonight's cookout. Coaches and players will be introduced. Hamburgers and chips will be sold for $ 5, and athletics season passes for adults and students will be sold for $ 25 and $ 10.
"Every dime that's made goes back to your kids," parent Becky Arnold said.
Raffle tickets will continue to be sold at the event to support the school district.
Coach Stanley Ellis suggested community members bring towels, bar soap and VHS and VHS-C tapes to the cookout for the team to use throughout the season.
Meeks already has the paint to paint the end zones blue and yellow and to paint a Bulldog logo at midfield. Rick Hickson volunteered to donate cardboard for stencils for the Bulldog logo and for letters to spell out Decatur in the end zones.
A workday was planned for Sept. 6 to repaint the bleachers at the football field. Volunteers are needed to help out and are encouraged to bring paint brushes or paint sprayers.
The Booster Club plans to pay for the diesel fuel for the team to travel to away games. Transportation secretary Patsy Wilkins estimates the buses will travel about 1, 700 miles. The total cost for fuel will be around $ 700.
Meeks said the Booster Club brings in about $ 800 from sales at concession stands at each home game, so there should be enough money to pay for fuel.
Coach Bill Brockert also volunteered to pay for fuel. Brockert said his wife will provide lunches for the players at one game, and club members wondered if local churches would be willing to pitch in and provide food for other games.
"As a club, we're going to have to commit to volunteering more," Arnold said.
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