Dixie Youth Director addresses Fair-Oak situation

If possible, Fair-Oak Youth Center would like to field baseball and softball teams this season, under the umbrella of Dixie Youth sports. But there’s a catch that Fair-Oak leaders hope to overcome, if not by this ball season, by the next season. To re-gain a Dixie Youth charter it once had, Fair-Oak must rely on Westminster and Townville recreation departments to surrende territory from which those recreation departments draws children. Dixie Youth State Director Darryl Jackson, in an email Friday last week,m said, “”After reviewing all the information, I find that in 2012 when Fair Oak chose not to renew their Dixie Softball Inc. franchise, Townville and Westminster claimed those boundaries. Therefore, per Dixie Softball Inc. rules and regulations, those boundary areas now belong to Townville and Westminster leagues. Also, I reviewed numbers for both Townville and Westminster separately and found the population numbers for each league to do not qualify for an overlay league to be awarded. Next year, the possible solution for Fair Oak is to ask the Townville and Westminster ;eagues if they would willing to give back these boundaries.” And that’s what Chairwoman Terry Swain of the Fair-Oak Youth Center would like to see. She said yesterday, “We’re asking right now that Westminster give up their boundary line, actually not give it up, give it back to us. And Townville also bring their boundary line in.”