Email FWD from someone who knows someone who knows someone who used to..... - Cooper D.


"For Immediate Release:

To raise funds for the Manila Dunes Disc Golf Course the Manila Community Center will be hosting its Annual Disc Golf Tournament on Saturday October 13 th at the Manila Community Park. Registration starts at 8:30 a.m. and tee off is at 10 a.m. This will be a random doubles tournament with 1st place prizes in four categories and every ace shot gets a prize also. There will be a raffle to follow. All the money raised will go back into the disc golf course to make much needed improvements. Please come out and support our fundraiser for the New Manila Disc Golf Course."

info: Luv_me_so@hotmail.com

R.I.P. Hole 9

A haiku in memory of the big pine:

Nine Pine hits the ground
With colorful splash of discs
Someone's lucky day

Ace hole 9 soon, or forever hold your peace.

This Way a Skate Park Comes

Email FWD:

"Exciting News!

We plan to break ground on the Eureka Skate Park on Wednesday,
September 19th, at 5:30pm, at Cooper Gulch Community Center.

A special THANK YOU! to Justin Zabel at Mercer Fraser and everyone
else on the construction team for making this important first step
happen. With their help, we plan to complete the site preparations
this fall - grading, adding compacted fill, and installing the
drainage system.

I look forward to seeing everyone on September 19th!


PS:
Let me know if you're interested in organizing food and refreshments
for this event.


Jeff Leonard
(707) XXX-XXXX
jtleonard@scif.com"

Break not the trees!

Ye who breaks trees to make the shot easier shall be cursed with a never ending string of bounce outs and double bogies.





If you can't handle some obstacles in the course, get the hell off of it and go play a video game or something.

Cooper Discourse staff strongly disapproves of the vandalism and destruction of natural features on our course. Be a good person. Step up to the challenge of throwing your disc around the trees. And leave the course cleaner than you found it.

Don't make me come over there...

Do you even know where you are?

So I find a disc sitting in the basket at hole 1. I figure I'll catch up to the owner at hole 4 and return it. Mmm. "Free Beer". Turns out the owner was not in the group ahead of me so I called the number...

Hello?
Hi. Is this (insert name here)?
Uuh. Yeah.
You missing a disc?
Uh. Yeah. Maybe. What kind?
It's a green Aero. It was sitting in the first basket here at Coopers.
What? NO WAY! I'm at Coopers right now! ...wait a minute... no I'm not. ...I'm at the river course.

Future arrangements will be made to return this dudes disc.

Camping at Coopers?

Cooper Gulch is home to many flora, fauna, lost drivers, and transient drifters.

Understandably, it's lush accomodations are far more beautiful, spacious, and private than the local homeless shelter. We're aware of the safety issues at the shelter, and if you're trying to stay clean, the shelter is the last place you want to be.

So, if you're planning to camp at Coopers, it helps to follow the Coopers Wilderness Guidelines.

1. Share the park. Not just with golfers, but with the families, joggers, dog walkers, and ball players. It's there more for them than campers, as you know, so a friendly attitude is always prudent.

2. Be cool. The Cooper crew will live and let live, as long as you do. Menacing your girlfriend will get the cops called on you. Twice. So, don't act all scary or be a chump.

3. Be discreet. Sleeping quietly in the bushes is one thing. Setting up camp down on the grass by the bleachers is another. Don't attract attention to yourself. This includes refraining from building a campfire. (Looking at you, #4 B-Position dudes with the sock-drying rack).

4. Be sober. If you can't be responsible for yourself, help is available.

5. Be clean. Tread lightly and remove your waste. There are garbage cans by the parking lot and by the tee of #7, so the Cooper Discourse editorial staff can't really see a reason not to use them.


The old-timers out by #2 and #4 know how to behave. Follow their example! Better still, improve the park. Pick up some trash, break up a fight, keep the riff-raff in line, help a rookie find a driver, whatever you can do. It might even feel good to do good.

Hopefully, the Coopers Wilderness Guidelines will not only enhance your camping experience, but also earn you respect and appreciation from those sharing the park with you.