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Player offers to conduct fundraising for project at Silver Creek. District wants to improve trail
By Bob Downing
Beacon Journal staff writer
Published on Thursday, Jul 23, 2009
Nick Gaugler would like to see Metro Parks, Serving Summit County build a disc golf course at Silver Creek Metro Park in Norton.
In the game, players throw plastic discs into hanging baskets that replicate holes on a golf course.
There are disc golf courses in Green, Hudson, Medina, Canton, Massillon and Wooster.
The park district and volunteers could build a nine-hole or 18-hole layout, said Gaugler, a disc golfer for about four years.
Setting up such a course would cost about $9,000, and it takes about one acre per hole, he said.
Costs could be reduced by relying on volunteers and park staffers for construction, said Gaugler, 25, of Wadsworth. He offered to conduct the needed fundraising for the project.
The first disc golf course was set up in 1976, and there were 54 across the country three years later, he said. There might be as many as 2,000 across the United States today, he said.
The three park commissioners took no action on his proposal at Wednesday's meeting.
Also Wednesday, the district:
• Agreed to negotiate a lease agreement with Metro Regional Transit Authority for 8.5 miles of abandoned rail line in Akron and Tallmadge. The park district wants to improve and extend what's called the Freedom Secondary Trail that would run from Akron's Northside Station to the Tallmadge-Kent border, where it would tie into Kent trails.
The park district has more than $1.1 million for the project and is seeking additional funds, said park planner David Whited.
• Is close to an agreement with the Barberton & Lake Erie Railway Co. for one of the last legs of the Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail. The 1.25-mile leg would run from Snyder Avenue to Eastern Road in Barberton. The price tag is $2.2 million, of which $431,000 in grants have been lined up.
The project will require a tunnel under the active rail line, a boardwalk, a bridge over the Tuscarawas River and a bridge over the canal.
Once the railroad approval is complete, the park district will be able to seek bids, Whited said.
• Agreed to spend $118,096 on trail repairs to the Sand Run Jogging Trail near Revere Road and three sections of the Towpath Trail: at Pancake Creek in New Franklin, at Fairview Road in Barberton and north of Snyder Avenue in Barberton.
• Learned that the Cleveland Clinic Foundation wants to fund the restoration of a Pond Brook tributary at Liberty Park in northern Summit County in conjunction with its winning approval from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency to build a new $71.5 million medical facility in Twinsburg.
The Cleveland Clinic also wants the park district to oversee a conservation easement on 34 acres at the 88-acre hospital site off Darrow Road (state Route 91) near Interstate 480, said Mike Johnson, chief of natural resource management for the park district.
Final details on the two projects are not complete but are among the conditions approved in May, when the project won state approval, he said.
• Were told the roof at Pioneer Shelter in Goodyear Heights Metro Park in East Akron has been repaired after extensive damage from high winds in September.
Bob Downing can be reached at 330-996-3745 or bdowning@thebeaconjournal.com.
Nick Gaugler would like to see Metro Parks, Serving Summit County build a disc golf course at Silver Creek Metro Park in Norton.
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Canton, OH
Posted 08:11 AM, 07/23/2009
Sweet. I'd like to see Tom Watson do this !!!!!
Posted 09:03 AM, 07/23/2009
They should build this disc golf course out at nimisilla where they won't have to go far to find other disc golfers to play with. It's a sissy sport for fancy boys.
Akron, Oh
Posted 09:58 AM, 07/23/2009
It's golf for stoners. The Phish and Dae Mathews fans. You can't skate board all your lives.
Grow up already.
Old Faithful, WY
Posted 12:00 PM, 07/23/2009
disc golf is for stoners? no, it's for people who like a little sport with some exercise. of course, fat ohioans can't be bother to get off their butts, away from the t.v., put down the beer and fritos and breathe a little fresh air.
Akron, OH
Posted 01:05 PM, 07/23/2009
In his rejection of the Corsair Model Aircraft Club's proposal to simply fly OVER the Munroe Falls Metro Park, Keith Shy stated that "toys" were not allowed in the Park (or over it.) In past statements he also said that they do not support "organized" sports. It will be interesting to see if the "disc golf" group has any more luck than the CMAC. Hopefully their "flying discs" will not be classified as "unguided ballistic missles" and deemed too "dangerous".
MAINEVILLE, OHIO
Posted 01:06 PM, 07/23/2009
Obviously you haven't played disc golf. I learned about this 10 yrs ago and took my sons and their friends to play. We all enjoyed it for very little investment in equipment, unlike golf, and it's cheap entertainment and exercise-there are no greens fees. In this time of recession, we all can use an inexpensive sport. Also, if it is funded all from donations, it won't use tax money that could be used for something else.
Posted 01:46 PM, 07/23/2009
nick, if you'd like to be part of a group putting a disc golf course in summit county, join us at portage lakes. the first nine holes are being purchased now & will be installed soon. two of the remaining nine holes are sold, but we need the remaining 7 holes sponsored. visit or website at www.pldga.com we could use your help.
Akron, Oh
Posted 02:34 PM, 07/23/2009
Is this where my stimulus money is going?
WADSWORTH, OH
Posted 02:58 PM, 07/23/2009
ok-I am 51 and love to throw a Frisbee and i am pretty good at it too-just ask my Frisbee dog-her name is Miss Kiddy-I'd put this dog up against any around here...so heres to us FAT BOYS that never get off the couch !booyah ! ya grow up ya grow old Richard !!
KERCHUNK !
