After years of dreaming, planning and fund-raising, Tallahassee’s Champions Ranch project has its formal ground breaking at 9 a.m. Monday, Dec. 1. The idea is to provide kids and their families positive experiences that would otherwise be unavailable.<\/p>\n
The 112-acre site south of Capital Circle between Tram Road and Woodville Highway is a blank canvas of sand and scrub brush now. But Tonja Ward, wife of FAMU Head Basketball Coach Charlie Ward and co-director of Champions Ranch, says all that’s about to change.<\/p>\n
“We have been working on this for so long. We still have a long way to go but we are celebrating every moment along the way and the $9 million mark meant that we can break ground on the first multi-sport field.”<\/p>\n
Eventually, she says, there will be many muti-sport fields along with facilities for all manner of fun and faith-based activities to enrich the lives of thousands of kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After years of dreaming, planning and fund-raising, Tallahassee’s Champions Ranch project has its formal ground breaking at 9…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-63928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}