We need your help promoting our sport. It's getting old having the same 5-10 people do everything for the last 20 years. Step up and help us spread the word about disc golf in the Burgh.

On May 21, 2011 The Pittsburgh Flying Disc Society will be partnering with the Venture Outdoors Festival to demonstrate disc golf at Point State Park. We are looking for some volunteers to come by for an hour or more, less is fine too, to help us show the people of Pittsburgh what disc golf is all about. We could really use your help with this event. This will be a great way for us to show disc golf to the city and is a great event for you to come out and experience the other great things that Pittsburgh has to offer. There will be free Kayaking, fishing, rock climbing, yoga, etc etc etc. Please come help out and show this city how much you love disc golf. As of now, Mark Prestopnik, Lori Merriman and myself have committed to being at this event. We will be bringing a few portable baskets and a bunch of discs for people to use. Please reply to this email if you think that you might be able to help us. We would really appreciate it. It seems we always have the same 5-10 people doing everything and it would be nice to have a few new and old faces at this event. Below is the email that was sent to us asking us to participate.

Thanks,
Chris Deitzel
PFDS




The Venture Outdoors Festival runs from 11-6. (we'll have to set up maybe at 10 or 10:15.) There's free kayaking, fishing, rock climbing, biking, yoga, dragon boating, capoeira....They've been doing this for years now and always draw huge crowds. It takes place right at the point, at Point State Park. Our group is having two shifts of volunteers--7 hours is a long time to table. Here's the link: http://www.ventureoutdoors.org/vofest.aspx

If you are unable to find participants on your end, would we be able to borrow/rent a portable basket and man it ourselves? Or you could have someone bring it and we'd take it back, or vice versa, if you can't find several volunteers. Just let me know--we'll pick up or drop off or whatever we have to.

Also, I'm glad you checked out our website and Marcellus information. Seems like half of what we do now is Marcellus related. Do you have further questions about our Athletes United for Healthy Air campaign, or can I put your group down as supporting it?

Thanks,

Jamin Bogi
Education and Outreach Coordinator
Group Against Smog and Pollution
5604 Solway Street, #204
Pittsburgh, PA 15217

Because of this event, I have asked Scott McIntyre to move the Deer Lakes Monthly to Sunday. So there is no reason that some of you shouldn't come out and help.

Good Idea moving the Monthly to Sunday - Thanks Scott. Matt Plunkett has also stepped up to volunteer. Come on folks we can't do this alone.

Thanks,

Mark

Deitz,

Please edit your original post to state the Deer Lakes Monthly has been rescheduled instead of canceled. Likewise, it would be nice if someone with access to the web site could update the event calendar to reflect the date change.

I updated the PFDS.org event calendar to reflect the rescheduled Deer Lakes monthly to sunday may 21.

I will be at the Point on Sat. to set up PFDS tent!

I just wanted to thank KB Clark, J Gary Dropcho, Lori Merriman, Sid Olcott, Paul Harkins, Mark Prestopnik, Brian Grace and Matt Plunkett for coming out today for this event. We showed disc golf to 500+ people. We set up our tent and baskets only to find that the DCNR had brought baskets as well as the Ultimate club. Apparently disc golf is growing!!!! We were the only sport to be represented by 3 different groups. HOW COOL!!!!!!!

I would also like to thank my sponsor Vibram disc golf. I was able to donate 1 shirt and 1 disc to be raffled off to all people who joined the PFDS today.

I echo what Chris said! Great job everyone and thanks for coming out. Vince and Lindsey Slaugh stopped by and helped out for a while as well. Jamin Bogi won the PFDS Member gift pack. He was one of 3 new members who joined the club today. We also sold nearly $150 worth of discs! More importantly, a lot of kids and adults had a ton of fun and really took a liking to disc golf. We had so much interest in the area courses that we ran out of the big stack of print outs with directions to Western PA courses. Nice work everyone and thanks again everyone for coming to help out :)

I would also like to thank my sponsor Vibram disc golf. I was able to donate 1 shirt and 1 disc to be raffled off to all people who joined the PFDS today.

So Disc Golf is a real sport?... I dunno, is that a real sponsor on my shirt? Get stupid loose... Mountaintop!

Thanks to everyone who made this a great event. Good times for sure. If you weren't there, you really missed out on a good time. Most fun I have had talking about disc golf in a long time.