Mr. Gene Stock’s recent, for lack of a better word, presentation to the township board on December 2, 2008 got me thinking … what are some of my favorite memories of Bedford. Now, I do not fully believe that one of Mr. Stock’s favorite memories is when Francis Foods was built here in town he did spin an interesting tale.
My family moved to Bedford in November of 1987 so obviously my memories are limited in scope; I was only 8 years old at the time and was not too thrilled about starting at a new school and getting reacquainted to the new surroundings.
Now obviously I have great personal memories from my youth growing up here – most of which revolve around 3B baseball and my father. Many afternoons and evenings were spent at White Park playing baseball, practicing baseball, watching baseball, eventually even umpiring baseball. I was fortunate enough to play on many championship teams in the 3B league and on some of the summer travel teams associated with the league. My dad was always involved in coaching the teams and that makes the memories that much more special. His involvement in coaching the teams lead me to take over the Senior Knothole team for a year .. mostly because I wanted to coach against my good friend Ryan Robinson and his Wizards team.
But thinking of great community involvement projects where one has a great sense of community pride I think of the Heart of Hope Telethons for Matt Stacy and Chris Comstock or I think of how the community came together to help build the new Community Stadium.
So what are some of your favorite Bedford memories that maybe have some sense of community pride? Or what are just some of your favorite memories growing up here? We have a great community that we live in so let us share some good stories with one another during this season of cheer.