RIPON — A base of new turf was rolled out Wednesday on Ripon High School’s Stouffer Field in a big step of the stadium’s renovation spearheaded by the Ripon Community Athletic Foundation (RCAF).The ultimate goal is to provide a regulation length all-weather track, improved football field, a home soccer field and trees to provide shade for athletes participating in competitions in Ripon’s summer heat. Cheerleaders, as well as football, soccer and baseball players and a few coaches were there to do their part from early in the day doing the grunt work by hand raking the already graded surface to getting down on their knees and picking up small pebbles that might otherwise work their way up through new the sod.Stephanie Hobbs – the sparkplug of the restoration effort – said the field will not be able to be used for a month to give the new lawn a chance to grow without the damaging effects of the cleats of practicing football players. Vince Hobbs added that everyday members of the community walked onto the field offering to help in whatever capacity they were needed.The call for volunteers for the program went out in September of last year with the removal of sheet rock from the walls of the field house.