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The Veteran
A WINNIPEG BASEBALL SEASON LASTS FOUR MONTHS AT BEST, BUT FACILITY
MANAGER DON FERGUSON KEEPS SHAW PARK UP AND RUNNING ALL-YEAR ROUND
by Tom Thiessen
he day after the Winnipeg Goldeyes won the 2016 “It would have been a real hoot to win it here,” says
American Association baseball championship, Ferguson, “but both times we’ve won it have been on the
Don Ferguson was back at work. road.
Winnipeg’s ballclub clinched their league’s best-of-five “I guess we saved ourselves from having to clean up
championship series – and the team’s second title in five champagne bottles, anyway,” he says with a smile.
years – in Wichita, Kansas. Players and coaches spent the In the world of facility management, Ferguson is a bit of
night celebrating, and the next morning set out on the 15- an outlier. Building operators and facility managers are
hour bus ride home.
generally “jack-of-all trades” types anyway, of course, but
Back in Winnipeg, Ferguson, the Goldeyes’ longtime the 64-year old Winnipegger is all that and then some.
Facility and Grounds Manager, was already preparing Given the high profile nature of events that the venue
Shaw Park for the winter ahead. holds in downtown Winnipeg each summer and the
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