As reported in my column last week, the city of Friendswood lacks a disc golf course. It just seems so unnatural for a fun-loving, all-American town not to have one.
But Mayor Mike Foreman informed me through an email that a new one has been in the works for some time and may open in a couple of months.
Stevenson Park will be home for the new course, and on April 5, workers will begin installing concrete pads for benches, trash cans and tee boxes. Better yet, notes Mayor Foreman and Assistant City Manager Steven Rhea, it will be an 18-hole course.
The mayor expects a ribbon cutting in six to eight weeks. Then we have to give it a catchy name so players from all over the nation will want to try out our course, help the economy and get it ranked on DGcoursereview.com. We could even start a Fourth of July Disc Golf Tournament. Parades, fireworks and disc golf. My pick for a name is the “Disc to Dusk,” and it could be popular in no time.
Trust me, there are DGers who indeed travel the country playing disc golf courses.
Friendswood previously had a disc golf course at 1776 Park, but that was forced to close in 2019 because of a flood-control project.
Some children who were Easter-egg hunting discovered a tree in Stevenson Park that was crawling with hundreds of caterpillars. I don’t know if the city checked for caterpillar infestation in the park from time to time, but this tree was covered with them. I checked two nearby trees and they didn’t have have any. Springtime, the experts say, is when caterpillars arrive and make their move.
The caterpillar tree wasn’t the reason for my trip to Stevenson Park. It was to watch Flo, our lovely scarecrow, read an Easter book in the rose garden of Wanda Murphy. Gosh, she never looked prettier in her spring attire.
Coming to Friendswood on April 7 will be “The Exercise Coach,” a unique franchising exercise studio that has over 100 locations nationwide.
It will be at 331 East Parkwood Drive and be run by Kenneth and Lisa Collins.
The Exercise Coach ditches the traditional exercise equipment and replaces it with high-tech computerized machines that produce the same cardiovascular training. According to a press release, the Exercise Coach’s robotic exercise technology is combined with the guidance of certified coaches.
“We are different from big box gyms as our boutique fitness studios have always been small, private and super clean,” CEO and Exercise Coach founder Brian Cygan said in the release.
The business puts a big emphasis on the fact that workouts are no more than 20 minutes in length, there are never more than four people per trainer in any one studio and workouts are scheduled by appointment only.
The website is exercisecoach.com/montgomery-nj/
Don’t forget, Spring Sparkle is Saturday, April 10 in Centennial Park. After what I saw that was being dropped off with the city’s Fall Haul, Spring Sparkle should have a collection just as intriguing. Can Spring Sparkle outdo the fall collection in terms of tonnage? We’ll find out April 10.
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