New Courses in the area

[bgwvdave]

Originally Posted by JasonR

we need to really work on this i think! .

who is this "We" you speak of?

thanks for posting Monty. this is good information and you are always on it. I apprecite that!!

[tymeframe]

Nice find Monny! My question about the projected Smith Creek Park is whatever happened with the Arrowhead Park money? From what I understand, that was a New Hanover County funded park project that included funds for a professionally-designed 18 hole disc golf course.
http://www.wwaytv3.com/node/16622

I guess I don't understand how these county park grants work. I did some googlebot searches and didn't really find much to answer my questions, but I did find a new park project that's going up in Brunswick County. It's supposedly around 150 acres.

Here's a link with parks department contact info on that one.
http://www.starnewsonline.com/articl...CLES/100519975

[jmonny]

That's a good question Chad and don't be afraid to call or e-mail the new Parks staff and ask or show interest. They need to see how anxious we are for new courses and tactfully asking questions is a good way to do it.

[bgwvdave]

Chad you bring up some good points and while i am far from an expert i can at least share what i know with everyone jsut to get the information out there.

You are correct that the Arrowhead Park project as well as the new Smith Creek Park construction are part of the Park Bond New Hanover County was awarded in 2006. However with the awesome Economic down turn the world has expereinced for the last 2 and a half years the funds were frozen to help the county stay a float. Apprently the county is opperating on a 14 million dollar a year deficit in 2009 and 2010. this is why sales tax was jsut raised from 7.75% to 8% as well as your property taxes getting hiked for 2011. This was actually voted on and approved by the New Hanover county population?????
Now why smith creek park is under construction and arrowhead has been dead in the water since 2006 i can't explain. i am guessing that the park bond project must have at some point been prioritized (one project at a time kind of thing) and i guess who ever allocates that money deemed smith creek park more important than arrowhead. This is jsut my guess and i have no facts to back this up.
I did however find out that county parks are not mandated...meaning they are not a necessity. things like fire departments police etc are mandated to be paid for by the county. parks are an added benifit. non mandated services are the first thing to lose funding for when the money gets tight and that is where we are. New Hanover County govt. is hemeriging money and there is not enough to go around so for now peace out arrowhead. this stinks on our part but all we can do is work with the county in the long run to eventually get the thing going again.

On an unrelated note we should have 9 holes of disc golf in Kure beach within the next 2 to 3 weeks. the course shoud be installed with baskets and the fairways cutt very soon. the tee pads will probably take a little longer to get in but the course will be playable hopefully sometime in June. Of course i will keep everyone informed as i get info.
thanks everyone for the interest this is the best discussion on this forum in a while....i like it!!

wow this was a long post

[Joey D]

That's great info about KB.

Build it and they will come...and maybe donate a tee-pad or two.

[bgwvdave]

thats right joey. the great thing is Kure Beach has the money to build a great course...no need to donate the teepads. the reason i said the tee pads will take a little longer is that when installing a new course designers tend to want to play it a little before you actually pour the pads. that way you get a feel for the hole and can determine exactly where the best spot is for the tee pad. Once that bad boy is poured it's there for good:-)

[jmonny]

There's an article about parks progress is in today's paper. Arrowhead is mentioned at the end so maybe we'll see some progress by the fall.

"In the summer and fall, New Hanover County will start on several new projects that will be funded by the parks bond, Duckworth said.

Those include renovations of parks at Parkwood off Gordon Road, and Monterey Heights near Ashley High School, as well as Arrowhead behind Mary C. Williams Elementary".

Full article:
http://www.starnewsonline.com/articl...CLES/100619568

[bgwvdave]

So i spoke with Parks and rec. and have recieved some GREAT news. according to my contact the Arrowhead park redesign is back on. there will be a public meeting concerning the arrowhead park project soon and i will post here to get the information out there. The arrowhead Park redeisgn should ressume very soon and the funding is in place. the Bonds where sold last week and the disc golf course is still part of the plan. so keep your fingers crossed

Kure Beach is still unfortunatley at a stand still. there is a nine hole course planned as of now but still no word on when construction will start.

[bgwvdave]

i had a great talk with Mad Mike P. today and he has been in contact with Kure Beach about the disc golf course. According to Bob Fitzsimons they plan on playing disc golf there in September. Lets all keep our fingers crossed this schedule happens.

[bgwvdave]

Another great article about disc golf. The Star New Loves us

http://www.starnewsonline.com/articl...y-draw-players

Great work Spiderman. keep it up!!!!

[Hagan097]

Pretty work Spiderman!

[bgwvdave]

There is a Public Meeting Tomorrow night at 6:00 p.m. at Mary C. Williams Elementary school that will be discussing the Arrowhead Park Disc Golf Course Project. If anyone can make it we would love to have a nice turn out. A map to the school is provided below. of course post here or send me an e-mail or phone call with any questions.


http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=Wi...eocode=ADDRESS

[jmonny]

There's an article in the Neighbors section today about the Middle School course. The Star-News loves disc golf.

http://www.starnewsonline.com/articl...CLES/100919561

[jmonny]

Just to get everybody's hopes up. Article from Sept.30th.

NEW HANOVER COUNTY, NC (WECT) - Arrowhead Park will be closed for renovations starting Monday.

The park is in the Arrowhead subdivision off Silver Lake Road in New Hanover county.

The plan is to add a new picnic shelter, restrooms, a multi-purpose field, basketball court, two tennis courts and an 18-hole disc golf course to the park. There are also fixes for the parking lot, sidewalks and water service in store.

Bradley-Barnes was the winning bid for the contract. The plan is to complete these renovations by April next year.

The money comes from the 2006 Parks and Greenspace Bond Referendum.

[jmonny]

I've been trying to keep up with the renovation of Inland Greens & hopefully re-establishing the disc golf course we had there in 2005-06. I missed the public meeting but I found an article that might help our chances.

There is a link to a public input form in the article that we can fill out and send in. One of the amenities to choose is "frisbee golf", so lets take advantage of their acknowledgement of the sport and show our support in force. They don't begin improvements until this spring so there is still time to get our input across.

I will bring plenty of forms to the monthly tomorrow. I had trouble with the email link but the address and a fax number are on the form as well, lets move on this.

For those unfamiliar, we have 18 collars still in the ground (hopefully) at IG and it's a great open layout. All we need is baskets (and permission) & we have ourselves a course. Here is the article:

http://watchdogs.blogs.starnewsonlin...inland-greens/

Here is the input form:

http://www.wilmingtonnc.gov/Portals/...landGreens.pdf

[jmonny]

Originally Posted by jmonny

I've been trying to keep up with the renovation of Inland Greens & hopefully re-establishing the disc golf course we had there in 2005-06. I missed the public meeting but I found an article that might help our chances.

There is a link to a public input form in the article that we can fill out and send in. One of the amenities to choose is "frisbee golf", so lets take advantage of their acknowledgement of the sport and show our support in force. They don't begin improvements until this spring so there is still time to get our input across.

I will bring plenty of forms to the monthly tomorrow. I had trouble with the email link but the address and a fax number are on the form as well, lets move on this.

For those unfamiliar, we have 18 collars still in the ground (hopefully) at IG and it's a great open layout. All we need is baskets (and permission) & we have ourselves a course. Here is the article:

http://watchdogs.blogs.starnewsonlin...inland-greens/

Here is the input form:

http://www.wilmingtonnc.gov/Portals/...landGreens.pdf

Bumping up!