OREANDA-NEWS. The turf was a brilliant shade of green, cut sharply by the brown and white lines of the infield on the morning of the dedication of the William Clay Ford Field. When student athletes – including the local team, the Woodbridge Eagles – and the students from Fisher Magnet Upper Academy filed into the outfield, dancing along to the Martin Luther King Jr. Senior High School marching band, it was easy to imagine what the new \$1.8 million field would mean to the community of the west side of Detroit when the bleachers were filled with families there to cheer on their children.

UAW-Ford Director of Community Relations Angelique Peterson-Mayberry led the organization of the ribbon-cutting ceremony on Monday, June 15, 2015, and she said she was excited to see the culmination of a year’s worth of work.

“The people who came out today to see this opening prove that it’s important to the community,” Peterson-Mayberry said. “And it’s important for Ford to show that they do more than build cars, they build communities. It’s a way to pay homage to the those people who have bought Ford cars for so many years, by putting dollars back into the community.”