Page Park - Bristol, CT -

[Patrick Barnett]

Sup Laner and Page crew.. can I suggest a pick up glass round? Bring a five gallon bucket or something like that.. I know Paul brings his dog there and see other dogs frequent the course and can imagine a paw getting sliced open big time.

Just an idea.

I think getting the glass up is more important that picking up harmless trash.

[Brian Carter]

i believe the glass was a part of the original course design

[James Lane]

Pat I love the idea. So much in fact, there have already been several 5-gallon buckets filled with glass and removed from 18 (you are talking mostly about 18 right?). however every rain storm then unearths new glass (people have been partying there since the 70s), and I personally deemed it unfeasible to get all the glass out of there. the new plan is to get the town to drop fill material in there and just cover the whole second half of hole 18. we can use anything natural for fill, dirt, stone, mulch etc.

so if anyone can get their hand on truckloads of fill material, feel free to donate to page park! or we can shawshank it and put rocks in our pockets and throw a handful down every round and finish by 2036.

[Jon Wilks]

I think I am going to make a shirt that simply says "Shawshank It" and where it every time I play page.... However I just thought you could probly get that confused with my golf game.... "Shawshank It" ugh...

[James Lane]

Work for this year has started... new signs have replaced the weathered ones, tees are being leveled and prepped for real pads, the kiosk is much better, bridges have started to go in, overall its gonna be a big year for Page.

In lieu of league on April 30,

Workday Saturday, 4/30 @ 9 A.M. until finished casual round afterwards, to clean up winter limb/stick damage, do a couple small projects, generally spruce the place up.

[James Lane]

Thanks to :

John Nolan

for securing the last available sponsorship at Page. (#9)

Hole #10 is being reserved .

[Brian Carter]

A couple trees fell on 1's basket...crushed it.

[Matt Aubin]

A couple trees fell on 1's basket...crushed it.

whoa.... serious?

lane I have a bunch of DISCatcher parts if you need them.

[Brian Carter]

Just might need the top

[Matt Aubin]

cool i've got a top and center poles if that's bent.

[James Lane]

The basket survived, we will bring it to a shop at some point to fix some welds or whatever it needs.

We are going to try a workday (again) for Sunday June 12, 10am at hole 1.

Some tasks are:
a small crew walk hole by hole and clean debris/sticks -
a couple people to work on walking paths, especially 11->12->13 -
install a few proper tee posts w/ signs -
frame out up to 4 tee areas with wood/gravel. -
defining fairways a little better, minor cutting -
backfill hole 1 tee -

We need all the help we can get, if you can make it, great!

[John Nolan]

Any course damage from yesterdays sh*tstorm?

[James Lane]

Nothing major from the storm.

BUMPing the workday, tomorrow 6/12 at 10am.

Focus will be tees and large logs/limbs

we could use more:

shovels
rakes
wheelbarrow
p/u truck

[Stephen Ditter]

What time are you working until?

[James Lane]

I'll be out there pretty much all day. We will play after as long as we get enough done. . .
I'll shoot you a text or a call in the middle of the day to let you know where we stand on work/play to see if it's worth it for ya.

[Stephen Ditter]

I'm off work by 1;00. If ya'll are still going to be working I'll stop by .

[James Lane]

Big big thanks to everyone who came out and helped.

Doug
Brian
Jeremy
Dan
Mike
Shawn
Lane
Duncan
Ditter
Mark
Jon
Hogg

most of the work was on getting wood/blocks/sand/gravel out to the tee areas of 18/15/7/3. These tees will be complete in the upcoming days.
Lyons went to work on 2/3/4/11/12/13 improving flight paths, visuals, and broken/dangerous trees and limbs.
Some new walking paths were made
things are looking good.
small tasks that will be done asap:
PI spraying, 18 T, 7 T, sticks and debris from fairways

Thanks again everyone!

[James Lane]

Tees on 1/3/7/18 complete!
come check em out

15/16 coming soon

[Paul Oechsli]

Played Page today and the course is looking and playing awesome. The new tees on 3, 7 and 18 look and play great. Keep up the great work, the course is sweet!!!

[Preston Parish]

Finally played Page today. Really impressed! What a beautiful course. The upkeep seems to be really exceptional. And as a first-timer - the trail markers are incredibly helpful, I didn't miss a single hole. Except 13... Someone was having a party on the green.. Tied their dog and balloons to the pin X!

looking forward to next time. Thanks for the hard work!

[James Lane]

Heading out to page this afternoon, i know someone wants the 1 tag!

[Tim Kapushinski]

Tops of the baskets for 8 and 9 are missing/stolen

[Jimi Bristol]

Tops of the baskets for 8 and 9 are missing/stolen

Yep, it's true. Stupid $#%*ing local kids. #@$%, when I was a local kid in Bristol I never did that %@#&!

Hey Laner, I know we were planning on using my Sat. league course fund for tee pads, but this seems to be more immediately important. Drop me a line if you would like to meet up.

$#@&!

[Chris Webb]

Is this something we should mention to the Bristol Press of something?

Just in case someone comes across the tops in the woods or trash or something?

What a bunch of F*Ckin Assh0les!

[Joseph Mason Proud, III]

I'm thinking that maybe - just maybe - that the bolt threads maybe were not compressed with a sledge after assembly?

If this is possibly true - a thorough check of all remaining elements (3 per basket) should be completed. If the locking collar bolt threads were not compressed, the whole basket could be removed............................

[Karl Molitoris]

Good point Joe, and yes I'd vote for "publically mentioning" this plight. The "masses" have more eyes than a handful of dg'ers (they may find the 'missing tops') and even though this might not be the type of press we hope for (to grow the sport), it IS press and in grabbing a little sympathy press we also may teach the unknowing about the sport's existence.

Karl

[Jimi Bristol]

John Nolan and I are working on fixing our problem. He has already contacted Innova, and we have most if not all of the $ needed to buy the parts. So have no fear, Page will be back to a fully-functioning beautiful 18 soon enough.

[Matt Aubin]

I'll get 9's top to you guys next week.

[John Nolan]

Sweet. Thanks, Matt. I'll get another one shipped asap.

[Brian Carter]

Has anyone checked deep in the woods or the edge of the pond...if it was hooligans, chances are the tops didn't stray too far