First - I would like to offer a sincere apology if I ever came off
rude to anyone, especially when it comes to volunteers. We get a lot
of "constructive critism" from many different sources and sometimes my
jovial responses can be misconstrude. I have never intentionally been
rude and mean no disrespect. Forgive me.

Second - thanks to the responses that back the county, it can be very
easy to blame the guv'ment for all the problems. Locally, however,
this county government (at least the Natural Resources branch) is
truly trying to keep people and nature's best interests in mind and
offer appropriate opportunities for all our constiuents.

Third - with all the talk about volunteer opprotunities, I just wanted
to let you know about the upcoming volunteer work day...

SCP Disc Golf Volunteer Work Days:
Saturday, January 20, 10am
Sandy Creek Park Visitors Center
Join us the 3rd Saturday of each month to help finish the 27-hole
disc golf course, and earn hours towards a season pass and
commemorative disc! Projects include privet and brush clearing,
digging tee pad placements and post holes for signs, etc. Please wear
long pants and closed toe shoes, bring gloves if possible. All tools
are provided. Call 706-613-3615 x227 for questions or to sign up.

Thanks,
Carly Robinson
Volunteer Coordinator


--- In athensdiscgolf@yahoogroups.com, joe smith <endlinker@...> wrote:
>
> As far as I know, this was the first workday you have scheduled in
about 5 months. I wanted to come but prior engagements kept me from
being there. Maybe if you scheduled more work days it would offer
more flexibilty for potential volunteers. I believe this would
alleviate part of the problem. Also, whenever I have offered
constructive critisizm to Carly, the volunteer coordinator, she very
rudely replies with something like "well why dont you get out here and
do it". First of all, I have to pay to get in the park as well as an
extra dollar to play disc golf but I am expected to get out there and
complete the course. Where does that money go? Certainly not towards
completing the course. Secondly, how am I supposed to come out there
and volunteer my time and efforts if there are no workdays scheduled?
>
> My 2 cents
>
> Doug Porter <doug@...> wrote:
> Hey everybody,
>
> Most of you are aware that we're now installing 8 new holes in the
> woods. Winter's a great time to do this because all the underbrush is
> nice and tame. We've already cleared most of 3 holes and hope to have
> the rest done very soon.
>
> Thing is, here's the sum-total of people who have worked on these
> holes:
>
> Jamey & Susan Tinch, Rob McMaken, Jon Morgan.
>
> That's it.
>
> We have 40 people on the current athens disc golf mailing list. Some
> of those probably don't live in Athens, so let's say we have 25
> athenians on the list. If we have 1 work day a month and each of you
> comes to one work day every 4 months, that still gives us 6 or 7
> people at each work day.
>
> With 6 or 7 people we can get a hell of a lot done in 2 hours. And
> that's all we do, usually, is 2 or 3 hours. This is not back breaking
> labor.
>
> Thing is, there are far, far more than 25 people that play regularly
> at the park. One problem is that we've done a horrible job getting
> everyone connected, so most of the disc golfers don't know anything
> about this.
>
> We need to fix that.
>
> We got one of the volunteer groups of the year awards and, frankly,
> I'm a little bit embarrassed about it. The turnout at the work days
> since the course went in has been pretty pathetic most of the time.
> The only reason the course has gotten installed and maintained is that
> the park has been wildly helpful about it. We, as disc golfers, have
> been generally awful.
>
> What can we do to fix that? Those of you who play but aren't helping,
> why not? What can we do to make it easier for you to help out?
>
> Speak up, eh?
>
> doug
>
>
>
>
>
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