Chris Hanners Quotations

With the lease we're negotiating, it gives us the opportunity for the Paints to step up. When people come out here and see this, they'll see the turf first. But you're also going to see a lot of improvements that I think our area is going to be very surprised at.

This is heaven-sent for the Paints, but it is also going to make a lot of kids proud to work hard and come out here and play. The Paints are only going to use this a very small percentage of the time, and when the high schools or the Little League teams come out here to play, it's going to be very nice for them.

I'm excited about that. I'm excited about all this from the selfish standpoint of the Paints, but I'm equally excited that it helps from Tee Ball to high schools to colleges in all sports, and it helps the community.

I'm excited to meet with Dr. Ross, and I think it's good for our area if we can entice him to play more tournaments out here. We want to start moving on this right now. I think we have the ability to get things organized, to help different organizations come out and enjoy their experience here.

The county is securing a lease from the federal government, and they in turn are leasing it to me for 25 years. It lets us invest privately into something like this when we have the ability to play for a while here.