Interviewed for a news paper article about disc golf
The sport of disc golf is not popular in my area by any means, but I am trying to change that. My local newspaper The Press Enterprise has a opinion section called 30 seconds. I sent in a little blurb complimenting the Bloomsburg town park on a great job with the course. I then wrote a letter to the president of the town park improvement association in regards to some changes to the course that would benefit everybody. I unfortunately never heard anything from this letter. I then sent in another blurb to 30 seconds about my intentions of starting a disc golf league. I received 2 e-mails and 1 phone call and thought to myself, great maybe I can get people interested in this sport.
A reporter for the press contacted me asking if I would be interested in doing an interview with him about disc golf. I said sure, what better way to get the word out than a little article in the paper? Well turns out it is going to be more like a half page or bigger article which should hit newsstand soon. I will post the article when it hits the press. I then spoke Paul, owner of a golf shop in Bloomsburg about carrying golf disc since the closest place to purchase disc was 45 minutes away. I am happy to announce that Paul now has more then 80 disc in stock.
back to the league. I sent e-mails to the people who e-mailed me and sent text messages to 2 other guys that contacted me about playing in the league informing them that leagues will start on 5.31.06 and everybody should meet at the first teebox. When the day came for our first league night I was excited, I wouldn't wait to see who showed up. Well I am sad to say that only myself and my great friend and playing partner Ben showed and he drove over 40 minutes to get here. To say the least I was disappointed but knew there was a pet and toy parade that day and thought hey maybe they went to that instead. Today was the 2nd week for leagues and was hoping I would have somebody show up but once again NOBODY SHOWS. So I am starting to think I have been wasting my time will all the effort I have put into trying to bring this sport to the area. I do have to admit that is was a bad day to play as the weather was not the greatest. I am going to go to the park every weds at 6:00 for 4 more weeks and we will see what happens. If nobody shows up I will put a lid on the project and just go and play rather than worry about who is showing up for leagues. I believe once the article hits newsstand I will have a lot more people contact me to play in leagues, I sure hope so anyways.
A reporter for the press contacted me asking if I would be interested in doing an interview with him about disc golf. I said sure, what better way to get the word out than a little article in the paper? Well turns out it is going to be more like a half page or bigger article which should hit newsstand soon. I will post the article when it hits the press. I then spoke Paul, owner of a golf shop in Bloomsburg about carrying golf disc since the closest place to purchase disc was 45 minutes away. I am happy to announce that Paul now has more then 80 disc in stock.
back to the league. I sent e-mails to the people who e-mailed me and sent text messages to 2 other guys that contacted me about playing in the league informing them that leagues will start on 5.31.06 and everybody should meet at the first teebox. When the day came for our first league night I was excited, I wouldn't wait to see who showed up. Well I am sad to say that only myself and my great friend and playing partner Ben showed and he drove over 40 minutes to get here. To say the least I was disappointed but knew there was a pet and toy parade that day and thought hey maybe they went to that instead. Today was the 2nd week for leagues and was hoping I would have somebody show up but once again NOBODY SHOWS. So I am starting to think I have been wasting my time will all the effort I have put into trying to bring this sport to the area. I do have to admit that is was a bad day to play as the weather was not the greatest. I am going to go to the park every weds at 6:00 for 4 more weeks and we will see what happens. If nobody shows up I will put a lid on the project and just go and play rather than worry about who is showing up for leagues. I believe once the article hits newsstand I will have a lot more people contact me to play in leagues, I sure hope so anyways.
posted by jason at 6/07/2006 11:13:00 PM
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