Kimberley Golf Club Outdoor Operations: Successful Clean Up Thanks to Member Volunteers

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Successful Clean Up Thanks to Member Volunteers

Yesterday over 20 people showed up with rakes, trucks, and a good attitude and made very short work of the downed trees on 6, 7, 10 and 16. All my crew is left with is clean up of stumps and logs.

Downed Tree 6 Fwy

From 3 p.m. until 6 p.m. people raked and loaded branches that were then hauled to a staging area in preparation for a truck and chipper from the city to process the debris which is needed as bio mass for the city water treatment plant.

A conservative guesstimate on man hours spent to do this (assuming only 20 people) would be 60 man hours. The volunteer help allowed us to continue with cleaning up fairways and roughs with the larger equipment as well as allowed us to keep up with regular fall work (i.e. aerating fairways). This type of input from members is a real boost and definitely shows there is a strong interest in keeping this place running!

What's the Point?

I have been giving some thought as to how I could inform more of the membership about the activities occuring at the golf course throughout the whole calendar year. The plan is to try to write a weekly update. Updates may be more frequent if time and events dictate. They may be also less frequent if not much is going on. I will try keep it short and to the point and incorporate pictures to spice up the posts.

This is meant more as a vehicle for me to inform the membership. If you have information or questions please contact me in person as I won't respond to comments or emails since I would like to deal with members in person only.