Prizes Update

Wild Mercantile has generously donated to the prize package. These will be added to the prizes already mentioned below (so the winners' packages will have additions). Check out the pic of prizes.

Thanks to Wild Mercantile and all the sponsors!

Where your money is going ...

Proceeds from the tournament will help fund this year's Watershed Daycamps. The daycamps engage local youth around watershed issues: acid mine drainage, macroinvertebrates and wildlife habitats to name a few. The Environmental Learning Program (ELP) leads learning sessions at these camps, which are organized by the Sunday Creek Watershed Group. Below are pictures from previous Watershed Daycamps.

Searching for macroinvertebrates.


What's in the net?


A couple crayfish!

This year's Watershed Daycamps will be July 16-20 in Glouster and August 6-10 in Corning. ELP will teach the children about animal wildlife in and around water. For more info about the daycamps, call Emily Boyer at 740-767-2225.

Prizes!

Prizes are in! Check out the picture below to see the bounty.

Teams who place 1st through 3rd as well as the winners of the mini-competitions, will receive a t-shirt tie-dyed with acid mine drainage (AMD) pigment. For more about AMD check out http://www.mondaycreek.org/glossary.html.

*prizes as of now - some are still coming in*

1st Place: 2 free oil changes from Don Wood Automotive, 2 $5 Donkey Coffee gift certificates, 2 $5 Bali Karma gift certificates
2nd Place: basket of handmade soaps, 2 $5 Bali Karma gift certificates
3rd Place: 1 $5 Donkey Coffee gift certificate, 1 $10 Spinning Turtle lesson, Athens Book Center package (hat and a couple books)
Longest Drive: new driver by Import House
Closest-to-pin: putter

Teams 4-12 will receive either Donkey Coffee free drink certificate, Donkey Coffee sticker, "Keep Athens Funky" bumper sticker from Bali Karma. All players will receive a ceramic, "Heal the Planet" coffee mug.

Thanks to all the local businesses that sponsored this event: Import House, Donkey Coffee, Don Wood Automotive, Athens Book Center, Bali Karma and the Spinning Turtle. Special thanks to Hocking College for allowing us to use their disc golf course.

Pictures of the course.

We went out to the course a few weeks back and snapped some pictures. The course starts right on Hocking College Campus between Shaw Hall and the Rec Center. From there the course winds back among the hills behind the campus. After a few minutes of hiking, one comes to a couple holes that follow the ridge line.

If you've never played, disc golf is an easy game to pick-up. It's played like "normal" golf, substituting a Frisbee for a ball and club, of course.

Players shoot (a.k.a "drive") from the tee in the direction of the basket (a.k.a. "hole"). Just as in golf, players continue shooting until they make it in the basket with the goal of having the lowest score. Each hole has par for reference. When "putting" (or shooting from close to the basket), try to hit the chains hanging from the basket, which arrest the flight of your disc.

Hocking's course runs for about a mile up and down rolling hills. It includes easy, difficult and really cool holes. Check out hole 10 where players throw over a ravine. Can you see tiny basket in the distance?

While you're up on the ridge tops, keep an eye out for evidence of mining as the course runs through abandoned mine sites. Don't worry. You won't have to walk through the muck, but these old mines are worth pointing out because it's a common sight in this region.

After a trekking through the woods - which will be bursting with spring during the tournament - the course makes its way back down to campus, ending about where it begins near Shaw Hall.

We're working on sponsors and prizes right now, and have been making some good progress. We hope to see you at the tourney May 5. For more info or to preregister call Adam at 740-767-4938.