cluded in that deployment were two tours of duty and four years as a drill instructor. I don’t know why, but it always makes me smile and laugh quietly to myself when I think of Ron and his high- pitched voice, getting up in the face of a thoroughly intimidated for a company of Marines, including a platoon of Information Tech- nology support specialists.
“I don’t care if I don’t get paid a dollar. I just like doing it for the kids and for the families.”
“I used to go around and see all the things that the company was do- ing, and the IT guys were always doing things that looked pretty cool,” said Ron. “So I bought a computer and began messing around with it.” ple of degrees, including a degree in information technology. He then went to work for the state in 2006. Along the way, Ron began to have thoughts about how he could give back and get back into the join the football booster club, where he volunteered to work on the football “chain gang,” running the down marker and chains on the sidelines of football games. media and videography. He said his wife, Sabrina, actually began
gang. Then they would go home, and Ron would edit the videos and put them out on YouTube. In 2015, he quit the chain gang and began shooting and editing video full-time.
“I found that there wasn’t a lot of historical video on the internet,
“So I thought, why not start recording these kids and putting the videos out on the internet?” in the meantime, after the 2017 regular season, he began following the Blair Oaks Falcons during the postseason. He produced videos of
football games and has added baseball, basketball, and now some Ron Haines is there, trusty cameras in hand. To date, he says he has produced 330 Blair Oaks videos. Most can be found on his YouTube page at BlairOaksFalconsfootball, all for free. Ron makes almost no money for all of the videos he shoots. When
he makes copies for fans and parents, he charges a minimal amount, “I don’t care if I don’t get paid a dollar. I just like doing it for the kids and for the families,” said Ron. “They put so much time and ginning at Blair Oaks.”
Ron is now certainly a member of the Blair Oaks community. The Blair Oaks family.
“The thing that stands out to me is the kids, the athletes them-
selves,” said Ron. “The kids are all respectful. They’re all smart and outstanding in their own ways. And now, getting to meet the par- ents and grandparents, I can see where that comes from.” Ron says working with and for the Blair Oaks community inspires him to always do the best he can.
“I put so much work into my videos because they put so much work into what they do,” said Ron. “They put 110 percent into what they do, so I’m not going to give you less than 110 percent into what I do.”
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