Sports donations confirm athletes faith

Published: Monday, 3/30/2015 - Updated: 58 minutes ago

BY BRIAN BUCKEY BLADE STAFF WRITER

Whether it is baseball, basketball, or hockey, Logan Tiell plays them all. Sports keep him busy, active, and out of trouble.

So when Logan, an eighth grader at St. Joseph School in Sylvania, considered service projects for his upcoming Confirmation, sports immediately came to mind.

I was thinking about Confirmation and thinking of a service project that I could do, Logan said. I thought, Why dont we collect sports equipment for people that dont have new sports equipment to use? A lot of people have used or outgrown sports equipment. I thought, Why dont we make a collection and donate that to people who dont get new sports equipment each year, like I am blessed to have?

Logan will be confirmed on April 19 in Toledos Rosary Cathedral. He and his grandmother Joyce Swin, who is also his sponsor, came up with a community service action plan.

After much discussion and planning, they decided on a one-day collection of sports equipment. The day before his confirmation, they will hold what they have dubbed a Sport Equipment Clean Up from 9 a.m. until noon at St. Josephs Church in Sylvania.

All items that are collected will be donated to Sylvania Area Family Services and the Farm Labor Organizing Committee.

We said wed like to keep it in the area to make it local, Ms. Swin said. But then wed also like to do something different and we considered the group of migrant workers because of the fact that they dont really have a home. Theyre here for a matter of weeks and we were wondering what the kids do. Logan said playing baseball or softball or Frisbee would be a good activity.

Eight of Logans classmates, also Confirmation candidates, are teammates on his baseball team and will join Logan in supporting the collection drive.

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Sports donations confirm athletes faith