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[From Green Wheels.]

Come participate in a community trail-building project at Cooper Gulch in Eureka.
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Cooper Gulch is the largest park in Eureka with a dedicated disc golf course and a skate park to be built this summer. Improved trails will benefit users of Cooper Gulch, families in surrounding neighborhoods, and children attending the local school.

Meet at the Cooper Gulch parking lot Saturday, June 13th at 9am. Bring shovels and gravel rakes, gloves, and water bottles. Volunteers will be smoothing trail segments and helping to spread gravel. This is a flagship project demonstrating community will for safe and convenient travel-ways. Don’t miss out! Contact Green Wheels volunteer, Kevin Wright, with questions at kcwright.srvs@gmail.com. See the web link for directions.

See you there!

  1. Kevin
    June 10, 2009 at 8:45 am

    Thanks to Councilman Jeff Leonard and his brother, Marc Leonard of MJL Trucking, for securing and delivering gravel donations from Mercer-Fraser and thanks to Rick Littlefield of Eureka Natural Foods for providing food for the volunteers. Also, thank you to Brooke Sayre and Jacob Pounds for helping to make this whole thing happen!

  2. Anonymous
    June 10, 2009 at 8:54 am

    That’s the spirit!
    “Pitching in” instead of “bitching in” here.

    It’s better to build a community rather than tear it down.

    -Ekovox

  3. Andrew Bird
    June 10, 2009 at 10:06 am

    The disc golf community deserves a lot of kudos for the hard work its members have put in at Cooper Gulch.

    With little investment from the city, this group built an impressive course with thousands of volunteer hours and donated services and materials.

    They also cleared out a lot of trash and picked up hundreds of spent hypdermic needles when they started their work a few years ago.

  4. Mr. Nice
    June 10, 2009 at 10:25 am

    This is a great event and thanks to Jeff Leonard and others involved for making it happen.

    These clean up days will be easier on us all if we keep the area clean between events. I would encourage all who play disc golf on this course to continue to pick up trash on your way through. Keep an eye out for beer cans and litter on the course as amateurs tend to treat the course with the same carelessness that leads to their double-bogeys. Picking up after them may seem like a hassle, but it will keep us out of the same public scrutiny that the drunken vagabonds put us in with other courses.

  5. anonymous
    June 10, 2009 at 11:55 am

    Jeff Leonard – the person who introduced the motion that may take away the the public zoning for the Balloon Tract. Mercer Fraser – one of the companies that killed Measure T. Why are we so grateful for the crumbs they throw at us?

  6. Resident
    June 10, 2009 at 1:07 pm

    because you little inbred they actually do something rather than just spew rhetoric.

  7. High Finance
    June 10, 2009 at 3:04 pm

    Yes, thanks to Jeff Leonard who actually works hard at being a councilman & takes his duties seriously.

    Unlike a certain mayor who does nothing but is “nice”.

    I expect every mean-spirited, snarky & insulting environmentalist out there Saturday, putting their bodies out there working hard instead of just trying to kill jobs for the rest of us with the courts.

  8. Mr. Nice
    June 10, 2009 at 3:24 pm

    I expect every mean-spirited, snarky & insulting environmentalist out there Saturday, putting their bodies out there working hard instead of just trying to kill jobs for the rest of us with the courts.

    I don’t know why, but for some reason I think it will be mostly just the people who use the park and already pick up after themselves and others.

    When volunteers meet up with city workers to clean up Redwood Park, it always seems to be the usual suspects that you see in the park on a regular basis. If you look at the angry anonymous internet forums on these clean up days, you can see people complaining about the mess that other people make in the park at the exact hours that the clean ups are happening.

  9. Mike Buettner
    June 10, 2009 at 3:37 pm

    Now who is “snarky & insulting”?

  10. TimH
    June 10, 2009 at 4:47 pm

    “Why are we so grateful for the crumbs they throw at us?”

    Don’t accept them and buy gravel from us.

  11. Joltin Joe
    June 10, 2009 at 9:47 pm

    If you go, don’t forget about the very large, and very thirsty, mosquitoes. Long sleeves, spray, citronella deodorant, whatever you use. Playing softball there was always an experience.

  12. Kevin
    June 11, 2009 at 9:01 am

    TimH: Who is “us”? I need gravel for the next neighborhood connector but there will be no “buying” unless I have a bunch of mysterious sponsors step up. This is sponsored by the City of Eureka so it could be a tax right-off for anyone interested. I’m grateful people who can donate materials and trucking ARE donating materials and trucking. You won’t be seeing extra cash-flow at the Parks level any time soon.

  13. Anonymous
    June 11, 2009 at 9:09 am

    Kevin,

    Tim is just joshing you. Tim is a good community member who supports trails and if you ask nicely he might cough up some great quality rock. Call him at Hooven Construction.

  14. Kevin
    June 11, 2009 at 10:08 am

    Thanks! I’ll keep Hooven in mind coming up here and Tim, it would be great to see you out there on Saturday if you’re not booked to talk about the project.

  15. TimH
    June 11, 2009 at 12:44 pm

    Thanks anonymous 9:09. I was kidding, since it looks like Mercer-Fraser already donated some rock. If I were them, I would be frustrated if I saw the lack of gratitude for a donation valued at hundreds of dollars demonstrated by the crummy comment at 11:55. I know it is only one person, but it is lame to post something like that. So what you disagree with their position on measure “T”. Turns out they were right. They are a local company by the definition of the Humboldt IBA, but they weren’t one by Measure T. Kind of strange a business headquartered in Eureka since the 1800’s would be non-local, isn’t it? We would have lost our local status this Spring when we hired a person who lives in Redding. Pretty weird, no?

    I plan on being out of town Saturday, sorry.

  16. Joe
    June 11, 2009 at 9:57 pm

    I love this park! The disc golf course is awesome. It annoys me when people litter. Just today me and my friend bitched at a dude who smashed his beer bottle on one of the holes.

  17. Anonymous
    June 13, 2009 at 10:59 am

    I hope the clean-up day is going well. I am unfortunately unable to participate, but I am hoping for a good turnout. If you are there, Heraldo, perhaps you will grace us with a follow-up story?

  18. Mike Buettner
    June 13, 2009 at 8:31 pm
  19. Barb Leonard
    June 14, 2009 at 4:15 pm

    Thanks for the link. Great photos especially that 5 1/2 year old and her wheel barrow. Wonder who that was? LOL

    Loved seeing the community doing things together almost as much as I loved seeing photos of my granddaughter hard at work.
    :)

  20. Andrew Bird
    June 14, 2009 at 7:04 pm

    Mike,

    What is it they put down on the trail from the 13th St. entrance? I just came over it on my bike and it seemed hard in some spots and soft in others.

  21. Ron Kuhnel
    June 15, 2009 at 9:47 am

    It was some kind of crushed gravel. It may need additional compacting for bicycles, but is fine underfoot.

  22. Anonymous
    June 15, 2009 at 2:33 pm

    I’d like to see those pictures, but I’m not prepared to join Facebook to do it. (I’m trying to keep myself out of the social networking-sites vortex/maelstrom so pervasive in our world today.)

  23. Ron Kuhnel
    June 15, 2009 at 5:06 pm

    You don’t need to join Facebook. Just click on the link Mike Buettner provided above.

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