Giving Back to the Plant City Dolphins Youth Organization
Our community made us who we are, it molded us to be the service-oriented people we are today. Plant City gave us our start in 2009 and believed that we could grow past this city’s borders and eventually become a household name for plumbing in Florida. That is why we chose to use our skills and experience to give back to this community. The youth are our future. Someday they will grow up to do extraordinary things, in their hometown and beyond. You can read more about how we got started on our about page, and meet the technicians who do this work on our team page.
If you have children in Plant City, you most likely have heard of the Dolphin Youth Football and Cheer Organization or have them participating in either department. Young boys and girls of all ages are able to cultivate essential skills that will help them later on in life such as hard work, determination, perseverance, and self-discipline. They learn, through the team, that a family dynamic can indeed exist outside of their home. The organization offers a variety of programs for children across the elementary and middle school age range, including the mighty mights, peewees, midgets, junior varsity, and varsity. It has been a staple of teamwork and positive recreation for local kids for decades.
All of the coaches are dedicated and passionate about keeping the youth motivated and on the right track. Most recreational teams are provided by the city, but this organization is being held together and independently run by a handful of volunteer Board of Directors. They also have multiple local sponsors that help fund the teams’ sports equipment and various activities. This shows you how much the people of Plant City care for one another.
Needless to say, when we learned that the kitchen sink of the sports complex where the Dolphins play had not been replaced in 25 years, we had to step in. In the fall, when the cheerleading and football teams kick off the season, the complex fills with fans, supporters, and parents. With that many people on site at once, a functioning sink is not optional. A concession stand and restroom block that busy is closer to a commercial system than a home, and our post on the signs commercial plumbing needs repair covers what fails first in buildings like it.
The coaches also want to be able to get water to the kids quickly. Old fixtures tend to deliver low water pressure, so the water comes out slower than it should. Sometimes that is a worn cartridge or a scaled aerator, which is a simple faucet repair. When it is happening at every tap in the building, the supply piping itself is usually the problem and the fix is repiping. A drain line that has been collecting grease for 25 years needs professional drain cleaning at the same time, and a slow sink is often the first warning, as we explain in our post on fixing a slow draining sink.
Nobody had checked the cabinet under that sink in years either. Long-running drips rot out a base without ever showing on the floor, which is what professional leak detection is for. Our post on reasons to keep your sinks maintained covers the routine that prevents it, and touchless fixtures are worth considering in a shared building, as we cover in our post on touchless bathroom faucets.
So our team of plumbers did what we do best. We replaced the Dolphins’ old kitchen sink with a brand new sink that could hold up to everything the organization asks of it, free of charge. Like we said earlier, our community made us who we are today. We wanted to show our appreciation to the members of this organization and to Plant City as a whole. True Plumbers & AC will always be involved in the community and do whatever we can to keep our city flourishing. If your home or business needs the same work done, we serve Lakeland and Winter Haven as well. Call (863) 667-6364.
