Volunteer Day at Capital City Paintball - Potterville, MI

[ClockworkSoldier]

Hey everyone! Completely forgot to share this here sooner, so sorry for the short notice. But we are organizing a volunteer work event next weekend, the 12th and 13th, at Capital City Paintball, just Southwest of Lansing. The major goals are clearing junk/debris/paths in order to get a portion of the woods reopened for general play, repairing some of the dilapidated buildings on our village field, and also making preparations for our upcoming zombie hunt event. I personally plan to arrive around 9am both days and, once more volunteers arrive, will organize a walkthrough of the field to give everyone an idea of the tasks we hope to complete.

Rewards:
Free food and drinks will be available to all volunteers. For each day of volunteer work, individuals will receive one field fee and paint (one case) voucher, which can be redeemed at any time.

What everyone should bring:
- Long pants
- Sturdy shoes/boots
- Work golves
- Eye/hearing protection

Extras to bring:
- Additional trucks for hauling materials, junk, and debris (we will have one truck available, and may rent a U-Haul if necessary)
- Building tools (if you'd like to help with village repairs, a limited amount will be available at the field)
- Chainsaws (we have one gas chainsaw at the field, and may be doing a large amount of cutting, depending on how many tasks we can accomplish, or how many volunteers we have)

If you are interested in volunteering, please comment below, shoot me a message, or feel free to simply show up! And if you know of anyone else that may be interested in helping out, please let them know!

*As of writing this post, we currently have 12+ volunteers signed up, an extra 14ft trailer to utilize, and multiple sets of power tools being supplied.

[Cross-Country]

How is this going? Wasn't able to make it out as I'm preparing for a flight, but hope it's productive. Gotta try your field soon!

[ClockworkSoldier]

It went great! We ended up focusing the majority of our efforts on the woods, as it needed the most work by far, and we want to open it back up for play as soon as possible. We had a ton of old, rotted, wood to get rid of, from old bunkers and buildings that the previous owners just randomly tossed in piles all through the woods. We also uncovered a large portion of the old net in the back of the woods, that had come down during a big wind storm a number of years ago, and had 8+ trees laying across it. New paths were cut through the woods, and we also cleared the main section for our small road that will pass through as well.

There's lots more to do though, and I'll be organizing more volunteer days going forward. We still have two big piles of old materials that need to be removed from the woods, more work to make our new paths/road permanent, putting up new posts and raising the net that we uncovered, and lots of work to repair and update the village. Once we've completed basic repairs on the village, we also have plans to start work on a complete revamp, to change the village into a more realistic setting, instead of a smattering of basic plywood buildings.

That being said, once the last two piles of old junk in the woods are removed, a large portion of that field will finally be playable again.

[Cross-Country]

That's awesome! I'm so glad to hear you're getting the woods in play. Woodsball is my true love, having more places to play it is more than welcome. Glad to hear your plans for the village, too. Hopefully I can join you on one or more of these future work days.