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Hayden School District digs in for athletic gala fundraiser

— In some ways, the Nov. 19 Hayden School District Athletic Gala is about providing the necessities.

Uniforms, for example, will be high on the wishlist after the fundraiser, the first of what Hayden athletics director Tony Rosso said will be an annual event.

Football helmets and other important safety equipment also will be on the list.

“With the new laws that no helmet can be more than 10 years old, we lose 25 helmets right like that,” Rosso said. “We want to get back to having a rotation for new uniforms. Now, whoever’s (helmet) looks the most ragtag, we try to piece together the money.”

But if all goes as planned and the big-ticket items that will be available via auction are scooped up as expected, some of the money will be used in decidedly unique ways.

Metal Shop Gets Started...

I am a perpetual student. I've enrolled in a weekend blacksmithing introductory course in May. I've done some welding and after my 2nd year in college one summer I worked on an oil field construction crew in Odessa, Texas, heart of the Texas oil country. Part of that summer was spent as welder's helper, when I wasn't running a jackhammer that weighed as much as I did, or a shovel (ugh, I hate digging with a shovel!). I know what a good weld looks like and learned a lot about welding that summer. I wanted to enroll in a welding course, but it was a choice between spending almost $1000 for the course or building my own shop and buying the tools to go in it. So, I bought a book on welding and will try to learn by doing. Now back to the metal shop...Here are some of the tools that will go in it.