Peoples Park

[Sky Pilot]

Sean,

I met with our Park Department contact the other day and he said "There is no update on People's Park.

Sorry,

Sky Pilot
SDGA President


PS - Are you the same Sean that painted the benches?

[SeanT00]

Nope, not me. But I have considered carrying a can of brown paint around with me to cover up the NORTE 4 markings.

[Timber]

Speaking of paint...to whoever painted the big green "16" on the trunk of the ponderosa pine next to Hole 16's tee, don't do that. That's exactly the sort of thing enemies of PPDGC can use to convince the City not to approve the course.

[Stimpi]

Originally Posted by Timber

Speaking of paint...to whoever painted the big green "16" on the trunk of the ponderosa pine next to Hole 16's tee, don't do that. That's exactly the sort of thing enemies of PPDGC can use to convince the City not to approve the course.

cover it with the brown paint.

[Burge]

It's been a month since the last pester (although, not by me) and I'm sure others are curious...
Is there any change in the status of PPDGC? As in, to dig or not to dig. [I know, I know..."If there was, it would be posted by now."]

I've been playing the course and liking it more and more (there's even been seemingly less FN around with the buckets). I would not only love to see real baskets and teepads, I would also love to show up and lend a hand with the installation. Plus, I think once we got in there and leveled out a teepad and put in a real basket on #7, the 'tent campers' will get the clue to MOVE OUT!!

...sorry

[Sky Pilot]

Originally Posted by SeanT00

Howdy again! Have we heard any news from the Parks Department regarding the People's Park course? It's been a little over a month now and I'm excited to hear what the word is. I can't imagine why it takes the damn bureaucrats so long to make a decision that to me seems so simple.

Everyone's wondering...

I recently had a meeting with our Park Department contact and asked him if there was any news - as in can we move forward with the project. He merely said, "No."
At our last meeting at the Peaceful Valley Community Center we were told that they would be applying for a permit to dig in the federally protected acreage that we know as People's Park. He indicated that this process will probably take a long time. They also know that we've been considering ways around digging...I hope that is a decision about this proposed course soon. I'll be gently lobbying for progress so that we can move ahead with it.
I'll pass on anything that I hear.

Sky Pilot
Sign Planter

[Burge]

Originally Posted by Sky Pilot

ways around digging...

ways? As in, more than one? And what, pray tell, would that look like? Real baskets? On..concrete blocks?...steel plates?...trained elephants?

[Sky Pilot]

Originally Posted by Burge

ways? As in, more than one? And what, pray tell, would that look like? Real baskets? On..concrete blocks?...steel plates?...trained elephants?

whatever works

[Burge]

Originally Posted by Sky Pilot

whatever works

So.....definitely, trained elephants.

[Sky Pilot]

Originally Posted by Burge

So.....definitely, trained elephants.

Can you arrange it?

[Burge]

Originally Posted by Sky Pilot

Can you arrange it?

Oh wait...that wouldn't work because all the mice/gophers/prairie dogs/ marmits would scare the elephants away.

Hey, I said trained elephants...not well-trained elephants.

[Timber]

So...is anyone actually playing PP? My last ten rounds or so I have not seen a single other golfer down there.

[Burge]

Originally Posted by Timber

So...is anyone actually playing PP? My last ten rounds or so I have not seen a single other golfer down there.

No doubt. I've been usually going early in the morning, so I usually don't expect to see any one then, but the few times I have gone later in the day, it still seems like a ghost town. I think once parks-n-rec stop dragging their feet and give the club the word to dig or not, so we can get real baskets up in this joint! (Hey, to whomever may be waiting to put together work parties, when it's go time, I'll be there. I've got a really nice post-hole digger, a mattock and a pinch iron/tamp rod if any of those are needed.)

As the summer marches on, and the powers that be continue to stagnate the project, it makes me wonder if maybe efforts would have been better spent at Sekani. But one can never predict how the wheels of bureaucracy may turn. Of course, it would stand to reason that getting PPDGC up and running is the greater benefit to the community and will do more to grow the sport in Spokane, but now the summer is waining and it is beginning to look like neither will be closer to being fleshed out, much less finished.

[Sky Pilot]

I was down at Highbridge and J. Shreck and I did some important work. Check it out next time you're down there.
Tomorrow evening at 6:30PM J. and I plan to meet to install and paint some of the new Tee Box signs that Gordy made.
Join us if you would like to work.

Sky Pilot
Bench Mover

[Burge]

Originally Posted by Sky Pilot

I was down at Highbridge and J. Shreck and I did some important work. Check it out next time you're down there.
Tomorrow evening at 6:30PM J. and I plan to meet to install and paint some of the new Tee Box signs that Gordy made.
Join us if you would like to work.

Sky Pilot
Bench Mover

Sorry this is post-activity, and thanks for the invite, but I wasn't available because I just got back from taking the wife and kids camping up at Lake Ellen over the weekend.

Still up for working on PP (when the time comes--and Sekani for that matter), but I should be on the email list by now (right, Bob?) and will keep my eyes open for work party announcements, or PM me--but bear in mind, as I mentioned before, I do have a family (and full-time school) that demand a lot of my time. Still, I will do my best to be there and help out. Our courses will only look as good as the energy and effort that are put into them.