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The
Outsiders Recreation Newsletter
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Ch,ch,ch,changes
Site Seeing
The weather is not the only
thing changing these days. The Outsiders have updated our
web site. Please visit the site and tell us what you think (www.chico-outsiders.com). We now have the
ability to accept memberships, sell fundraising items, and process
project sponsorships online.
Monthly
Members For people that
have a hard time coming up with $50 at one time, we've
introduced a method to pay for membership throughout the
year. You can now pay the membership fee in
5- $10 increments online. Learn more here.
Sky Blue
The Outsiders are replacing the long course targets and hope
to refurbish the targets on the short course.
The "Alien Eyes" targets have been in place for
about a decade, and have seen some great days. But they've earned
a much needed retirement.
Wet Works:
The Park Commission recently
adopted a new wet weather policy for disc golf and other areas of the
park. Closures will be based on rainfall amounts, and course
opening based on moisture, and other, on site testing. There
is a link on the Outsiders web page (right hand side of navbar). You can use that link to see the
course status.
Lon Glazner
President, Chico
Outsiders
lon@chico-outsiders.com
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Upcoming
Events
Halloween
Ace Race"A Benefit for Baskets" Oct
31st
The Chico Elks Lodge Haunted Ace Course | Starting at
9am until dark. Plus a beer garden, live music, snack
bar, special challenges and BBQ lunch!
Open format play- anyone can win it all! Green fee for each round is $5
dollars. Players encouraged to enter more than
once! Play rain or shine - largely covered course!
1st Place Hwy 32 Hole sponsor in your Honor
1st -3rd Place winners receive a special "Penny Basket"
trophy
First 75 contestants to arrive receive Outsiders mini-disc Proceeds go
to pay for baskets and hole construction on the Highway 32/UpperPark
course.
Read more here, or download the event flyer here.
For more additional
email Ben or Gregg.
Winter
Solstice Slam - Member Event
The 2nd annual Winter
Solstice Slam is set for Saturday, Jan. 2. The Winter Solstice Slam is
one of two annual, fairly noncompetitive tournaments where the main
objective is having fun, hitting the road and seeing some new
courses.
This year's tournament is a
Shasta Disasta. We'll leave Chico
at 7 a.m. and carpool up to Anderson River Park
about an hour north. We'll then eat lunch (probably a brown bag
affair), then head 10 miles west to a unique course called Horsetown on Clear Creek, where we'll scramble to
finish before dark.
Learn more about this event,
or get involved at this web page.
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Project
32
We've shifted from an early organization
building effort to a fundraising and planning effort for the
highway 32 disc golf facilities. We're naming the construction of
the disc golf courses "Project 32". We hope to begin
construction of Project 32 in the summer of 2010.
To help people keep tabs on where we're at in the process we will
maintain a web page with up to date information on our web
site. You can visit that page here.
To make this project a reality we need hole sponsors, people willing to
adopt-a-hole, and solid, hard working members. Please get invovled.
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Storm Clouds
Park Commissioner, and Vice President of the
Friends of Bidwell Park, Jane Turney
appears unhappy with the wet weather policy she recently voted
for. It took one rainy day for that to happen.
Ms. Turney wrote a letter to the City Council
yesterday suggesting that they shut down disc golf.
Here were her suggestions.
-removal of pins in highly sensitive areas, as suggested by EIR
-temporary fencing around threatened wildflower areas, identified in
EIR
-temporary fencing around vernal pools, chronic mud puddles, and/or
highly eroded areas
-temporary closure of long course during wet weather season
-avoidance of installing new benches and targets
During the discussion of the rain policy Ms. Turney
was obviously supportive of solutions that closed the
disc golf courses to the greatest extent.
Her suggestions above have little to do with wet
weather. For example, there are very few areas
suffering from actual erosion and no vernal pools at the site.
Wildflower areas are dormant, and she is suggesting placing fencing
around nothing.
It's unfortunate that while everyone else is working together on this
project opponents are still sniping at it.
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