{"id":4883,"date":"2016-06-29T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T14:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=4883"},"modified":"2016-06-26T21:39:05","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T02:39:05","slug":"the-melrose-disc-golf-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=4883","title":{"rendered":"The Melrose Disc Golf Course"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A year and a half ago I wrote a couple of articles\u00a0about how the Melrose Boy Scout Troop had inspired the Melrose city officials to think about having a nine basket disc golf course installed in the main city park. A quickly planned but\u00a0simple service project activity during the city’s 2014 Night To Unite<\/em> evening started the ball rolling on something I would have liked to have seen in town two decades earlier. You can read these posts Here<\/a><\/strong> and Here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

It recently occurred to me that I did not write any follow up articles to let you all know how things turned out. As stated in one of the earlier posts, I thought the Boy Scouts would assist in helping the city staff assemble the course equipment and installing it in the park. Well, it did not quite happen that way. The city park staff assembled everything themselves during the winter months, and installed all the signs and baskets early in the spring while the Scouts were still in school. At least a couple of the Scouts, who happened to be working on their Citizenship in the Community merit badge, were able to assist in creating the tee signs for each hole.<\/p>\n

The Sauk River Park disc golf course was finished the first Monday of May in 2015. On a rainy night two weeks later, the Boy Scouts were present with various city and park officials for the official ribbon cutting. As the person who did a lot\u00a0of the planning and design work for the park, I was given a\u00a0scissors to cut the ribbon. Then the Scouts lined up for a picture throwing their discs at the basket for the local paper. The adults that were present also lined up for a similar picture. The newspaper did a great write up about the course.<\/p>\n

The disc golf course received a good amount of use during the year of 2015. The local teenagers started making use of the course immediately, and many families discovered it was an activity they could do together. Even the high school started using the course as\u00a0a Phys Ed activity since the course\u00a0is located across the street from the school. Both city officials and the park board were happy with the use the course was getting, which made me feel good after the time and effort I had poured into the project. Not many people get to say they brought something to their city which everyone can play and have fun doing.<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago we began a disc golf league in Melrose. There are about\u00a0fourteen people in the league, most of them teenagers, and four\u00a0of them Boy Scouts. There is even one Cub Scout and his father who play. Ages range from 9 years old to 55 years old. We have been having a great time playing and meeting the new members. I just wish I would have thrown\u00a0a bit better last week, but then, we all wish to do better than we usually do when we play.<\/p>\n

I sometimes still find it hard to believe that this course happened because of a little project in the park one night prepared by the Boy Scouts. It just goes to show, you never know…<\/p>\n

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