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March 10, 2008
The Summer of George
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| Image: The first throw at the grand opening of the
Sherwood Forest disc golf course. From Seinfeld [George reads a letter] George: Severance package...The Yankees are giving me three months full pay for doing nothing. Jerry: They did it for three years. What's another few months. George: I'm really going to do something with these three months. Jerry: Like what? George: I'm gonna read a book. From beginning to end. In that order. Jerry: I've always wanted to do that... George: I'm gonna play frolf. Jerry: You mean golf? George: Frolf, frisbee golf Jerry. Golf with a frisbee. This is gonna be my time. Time to taste the fruits and let the juices drip down my chin. I proclaim this: The Summer of George! The summer of George got a little easier to have here in Chico. About 300 people showed up for the opening ceremony of the Sherwood Forest kids' disc golf course. We ran out of discs for kids right about the time they stopped arriving. So with the exception of some late arrivals most kids got a free commemorative disc. It was a great turn out and some local officials took the time to come by. CARD Board of Directors Jan Sneed, Mike Leitner, and Ed Seagle were there. So were City Councilors Scott Gruendl, Larry Wahl, and Tom Nickell and Park Commissioners Steve Lucas and Jim Walker. The Chico Police Officers' Association president Terry Moore came to the event and brought a number of Chico officers to hand out the free discs to the kids. It is always nice to see local officials show up for the opening of a local project. It was also nice to see readers from this blog show up and celebrate the opening day. I think the picture of the two councilors and myself was taken when Scott and I were laughing at an old lady that fell down, and Tom was inquiring about the enormous wax build up in my ear. Not sure though. The best part of the day was seeing the course full of families and kids. This was a great event for disc golf and a great day for those of us working for years supporting it. During the "first throw" (photo above) a couple of kids actually hit the basket target that is located to the left (outside of the picture). I'm not sure who they were but apparently there were some sandbaggers in the crowd. This course was proposed about a year ago. It was approved by CARD's Board 5 months ago. The property is leased to CARD from the city on a long term basis, so the project had to be approved by the Bidwell Park and Playground Commission. That occurred on December 17th. Environmental studies were paid for by CARD at a rough cost of $9,000 and CARD bought the 10 targets at a cost of $434 each. The remainder of the course components were funded privately (about $6,500). The project was built by volunteer labor. All fundraising and construction occurred during a 60 day period. See all of our sponsors and photos of the volunteer effort here. |
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| Spotlight: What Green Line? The county will look at a proposal to expand a state park west of Chico. This doesn't really have anything to do with Chico's Greenline, and the County can't stop the project. The proposal would expand a state park by taking 360 acres of prime agricultural land and converting it to riparian habitat and recreation use. I would like to see the park expanded, but the destruction of orchards to do that should spark interesting conversation. Johann Gutenburg Not Green? This story from the UK says that the Vatican has revised its 7 deadly sins to include not recycling. The mass production of the bible was accomplished by Gutenburg in Mainz, Germany (I lived there for a couple of years). What followed were centuries of paper products never recycled including the bible. Poor Gutenburg... who knew that the mass production of the bible was the devil's work. |
CI Challenge: Can you guess what it is? Winner: Steve B. who was much too quick in recognizing the Jason Alexander boudoir photo. See comments below for the answer. |
Posted by Lon at March 10, 2008 09:25 AM
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CIC George's leg when he is doing a risky picture/pose.
The Black Butte lake project is proposed to open Memorial Day.What better way to celebrate than camping,BBQing, fishing,and throwing some plastic around a picturesque course.We are now raiseing funds for the project.Time and money are the only constraints right now.
Great job Lon and Gregg. K2 now has a disc signed by the two of you, hanging on his wall. A disc celebrating the first official disc golf course in Chico.Thank you everyone involved on this wonderful project. Time to go throw with him now. see ya later.
Posted by: Steve B at March 10, 2008 10:11 AM
Steve,
Thanks, and good luck with Black Butte Lake, that should be a cool site. I heard Willows may consider a small course.
I think we need to start a kids league.
Lon
Posted by: Lon at March 10, 2008 12:35 PM
Hey Lon,
Thanks for the work on the course! It is awesome. And thanks for grabbing some discs for my kids out of the truck... You saved my kids from complete meltdown and the destruction of my entire weekend...
We are heading over to play this evening...My oldest has been practicing in the yard by trying to land his disc in the back of his dump truck.
Brian
Posted by: brian at March 10, 2008 12:58 PM
Hey Brian,
No problem, I'm glad you and your kids made it out to the opening. I'm also glad we had a few discs available for them.
We had produced 200 discs, 150 were in the boxes that were to be handed to kids, I gave some to volunteers, holes sponsors, and major sponsors. The ones I had left for your kids came of that bunch.
Have fun this afternoon, I might see you out there.
Lon
Posted by: Lon at March 10, 2008 01:46 PM
Just came back from the course. Had a great time after a little DG we went down to the creek to throw rocks into the water. I think that is a fun way to spend the day.
Just a thought, but Gregg should think about doing a project like the the one over by manzinita under the freeway. There is a great surface with all kinds of graffiti on it at hole #8 it is a dam/ bridge. Keep the robin hood theme going hummmm....
Posted by: Steve B at March 10, 2008 04:43 PM
We had a blast last night also... here are some pics..
http://soleckifamily.blogspot.com/2008/03/visiting-forest.html
Posted by: Brian at March 11, 2008 01:13 PM
Brian,
Great pictures. Now that I've seen your kids playing I'm even more happy I was able to rustle up a couple of discs. I'd hate to see them out there tossing ferral Bidwell Park cats at the baskets.
Lon
Posted by: Lon at March 11, 2008 02:19 PM