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Get your registration in for our second annual Ice Cube Open Ice Bowl! This will be two rounds of straight-up singles play for all divisions. No mulligans this year. (Sorry Pete!)
Mother Nature was kind to us this weekend as it bypassed our course for the most part. Although every town around Devens was or is currently still without power due to downed trees and mangled power lines, the Hill survived with just a few scratches.
How cool is this? Never forget, disc golfers.
World Trade Center flag flies over Fort Devens
By Gayle Simone
Staff Writer
Nashoba Publishing
Posted: 12/05/2008 08:35:00 AM EST
DEVENS -- As the sun went down, the American flag outside United States Army Garrison Fort Devens Headquarters was lowered in a brief ceremony with Department of Defense police and two Marines.
The flag was not one of everyday issuance and it was not removed because it was old and tattered.
The flag was actually one of the three Twin Towers flags flying on Sept. 11, 2001.
Though the flag is visibly damaged, with smoke stains throughout the colors and the bottom red stripe has been torn and repaired, it's considered a traveling memorial and has seen over 12,000 miles since it was first presented to veteran Bob Dunsmore of the Lakota Nation when he created an honor guard to travel to different pow-wows.
Law Enforcement Station Commander Lt. Kevin Cooney, police officer Rusty Simoneau and Marine Lance Cpl. Tyjuan Newsome presented arms as Marine Cpl. Brian Warren lowered the flag while "To the Colors" played over the Devens' sound system.
Newsome began folding the flag, bringing it closer to the waiting hands of Warren, as Department of Defense Police Sgt. Andrew Seropian held the glass box the flag travels in. Warren then presented the cased flag to Lorena Novak of the United Native American Cultural Center on Devens.
"On behalf of the Unites States government, it was an honor for us to fly this flag today," Cooney said. "We now return the flag to your possession."
Before flying at Fort Devens, the memorial flag was presented to Marine Sgt. Troy Schielein, who brought the flag to the Marines' Military Ball, where the flag was used as the center piece for photographs of the couples.
The flag flew on Fort Devens for the Marines' birthday on Nov. 10 and Veterans Day. The flag was given to fire Chief Thomas Garrity after being lowered from Fort Devens Headquarters, where it then flew over Rogers Field.
"We flew the flag for all of our fellow firefighter brothers who had fallen that day," Deputy Chief Joseph LeBlanc said. "We honored them, as well as any member of any department."
The flag had one more stop on Devens, the State Police barracks, before being shipped to Dunsmore who will continue presenting the flag at pow-wows in South Dakota and around the United States.
After almost a month on the disabled list, I made a very successful return to the Hill Saturday as I won our Bag Tag Bonanza and laid claim to the #1 tag for 2008.
Since we had no aces during the Bonanza, Dave decided to split the ace pot collected from the Wednesday Weekly three ways: lowest score for the day, highest number of birdies, and a final group CTP on hole 1. I continued my hot streak and won all three of these too. (112, 9 birdies, 10 ft or so). Pretty funny.
Fifteen of the 30 or so bag tag holders have confirmed that they are in for this Saturday's Bonanza.
Thank you Renewal by Andersen for your birdie sponsorship!
As you know, we are not just about disc golf here at Devens. From time to time, we like to teach you some things and help you become a slightly more attractive person. So here are some quick facts that you can sprinkle into your holiday dinner conversation tomorrow. No, no. There's no need to thank me.
To anyone holding a 2008 Devens bag tag:
Sunday was a great day for Devens disc golf. Despite the chilly, windy conditions, ten volunteers showed up to help install new tee sign posts.
Please come out and help install the tee sign posts this Sunday morning at 9AM. We need post hole diggers, a couple of those metal rock smasher poles, and some general muscle to lug the posts into the woods.
Rules were simple -- play holes 13, 14, a temp hole from tee 15 to basket 9, and hole 10 as fast as you could using normal disc golf rules. Then sprint to the finish line at tee 11.
Fifteen seconds were subtracted from your time for each stroke under par, while 15 seconds were added for each stroke over par. Golfers went off at each minute mark, so the potential for getting passed or bonked on the head was there.
Ken G, Arty, Mike C, and I are headed down to Norwalk, CT Saturday for the end-of-season NEFA Points Finals at Cranbury Park. By playing in a certain number of NEFA Points tournaments this year, we each qualified for the event.
Update: Unfortunately, due to some "unfortunate incident", this has changed to people with commercial accounts only.I have thousands of pallets available, all in great shape, mostly hardwood. Free for the taking, but some rules have to be followed to get them. You have to be weighed in and out so that I may keep track of how much material has left my facility. You can have a few or all of them.
Winter is right around the corner..... These pallets are like brand new, they came in for recycling into wood chips but during these times when people are looking for wood to burn, I thought it better to offer them to people to heat their homes first.
You can come M-F, 7 AM-5 PM or Saturdays 7 AM to 12 PM. I ask that you call
ahead and let me know you are coming. On Saturday, it is best to call my
cell phone.
David A. Stevens
Plant Manager
Devens Recycling Center
45 Independence Drive
Devens, MA 01434
978-772-6500-Office
978-835-2076-Mobile
dstevens@devensrecycling.com
www.DevensRecycling.com
AM1 saw a very competitive match between the duo of Ken Gary and Donnie Phillips and Dave and me. We started off pretty hot with a few birdies and jumped to an early lead but lost our mojo on the back nine. At that point, Donnie hit the gas and the two old dudes mounted their comeback. By hole 18, we were all tied up and needed a good drive, approach, and putt to finish out the round. Easy enough to say, but it's hole 18, the Round Killer, after all.
the woods, but at least it was over the crest.
Let me start off by saying, damn, do we know how to pick 'em! For the second year in a row we were blessed with absolutely beautiful Fall weather - cool, crisp, sunny, and plenty of color. Yay Mother Nature!
The Ace Race kicked off at about 10 AM with 24 golfers, many of whom were first-timers. This year we threw both rounds at once which helped moved things along faster and also gave everyone a better chance at dialing it in and hitting metal. With almost 60% of the contestants either aceing or hitting metal, I'd say that was a good move!
My group did pretty well with 2 aces and 9 metals. After nailing a beautiful laser on hole 5, I hit chains on 6 and bounced out. It was pretty exciting, none-the-less. Tim Sieger flicked a lazy shot up 15 for his ace and the rest of our group had plenty of near misses.
Joe Atwood also hit hole 5 to tie for second place with Tim in the Ace and metal department. Since there was a Halloween Buzzz up for grabs for second place (donated by Donnie), Tim and Joe had a CTP throw-off on hole 1, which Joe won. Nice job, guys. Tim didn't go home empty-handed though. All winners got homemade cookies, courtesy of Assistant TD, Marcy B., and everyone got some of that delicious cake!
