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Page 4A — Thursday, September 12, 2013 CANTON HERALD
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Sidewalk
the budget unless we rebid
the project,” Burton said.
In detailing what he
could reduce on the project
bid, Burton said there was
a request for a new lire hy-
drant at a cost of $2,500,
which could be eliminated.
He noted there are eight
downspouts from busi-
nesses on Capitol Street,
and those could be com-
bined and reduce the quan-
tity of c urb cuts and reduce
the bid by $5,200.
Another thing he noted
was barricades for traffic
control which can be cut
for $10,000.
After going over the
cuts, he said with those re-
ductions the budget is still
$30,000 over what was
estimated.
He noted there were two
weeks given to bid on the
project which is the mini-
mum given by law for such
projects.
Shawna McElfish with
Gary Traylor & Associ-
ates, Inc. proposed allow-
ing a month to bid the job,
not letting the contractor
start the job until after
Christmas, and allowing
them to work until Friday
instead of stopping on
Wednesday.
Burton said after com-
paring the unit prices on
this job and the unit prices
on the recently completed
Tyler Street sidewalk job,
he felt it was “a reasonable
budget.”
He did note contractors
may have to stop short of
going all the way to Dallas
Street, but they would ful-
fill the grant requirements.
Once the project is rebid
in September, and bids are
awarded Oct. 15 as sched-
uled and a reconstruction
meeting is held in Decem-
ber, engineers estimate the
project to begin in January
2014.
In other business, the
council:
—approved street clo-
sures for the Autumn Stroll
Festival Oct. 11-12.
The street closures in-
clude the following:
The 100 and 200 block
of N. Buffalo beginning
Friday, Oct. 11, at noon
and ending Saturday, Oct.
12, at 5 p.m.
The 100 block of W.
Terrell beginning Friday,
Oct. 11, at noon and end-
ing Saturday, Oct. 12, at 5
p.m.
The 100 block of E
Terrell beginning Friday,
Oct. 11, at noon and end-
ing Saturday, Oct. 12, at 5
p.m.
The 100 block of E
Groves beginning Friday,
Oct. 11, at noon and end-
ing Saturday, Oct. 12, at 5
p.m.
The 100 and 200 block
of W. Groves beginning
Friday, Oct. 11, at noon
and ending Saturday, Oct.
12, at 5 p.m.
The 100 block of S.
Capitol on Saturday, Oct.
12, from 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.
The 100 block of E.
Tyler on Saturday, Oct.
12, from 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.
The 100 block of W.
Tyler on Saturday, Oct.
12, from 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.
The 100 block of S.
Buffalo on Saturday, Oct.
12, from 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.
—approved a six-
month solicitor’s permit
to distribute informative
flyers door-to-door in
Canton as requested by
Signature Roofing owner
Jeff Allen.
Burn Ban-—
to place Van Zandt County in a burn ban until further
notice.
The ban dictates that the use of combustible materials
in an outdoor environment is prohibited; such as fire-
works, outdoor cooking equipment, discarded cigarettes,
or materials or equipment used that create fire, such as
welding.
Residential trash burning will be permitted only in a
metal barrel covered with a one-inch screen and placed
in an area free of debris and grass.
Welding will be allowed only for professional and
commercial uses. The ban dictates that at least 100
gallons of water be on hand and that if winds ex-
ceed 10 miles-per-hour or the humidity is less than
30 percent, no welding or burning will be permit-
ted. Underground and enclosed welding is accept-
able.
Agricultural burning is allowed only by the fol-
lowing guidelines; all leaves, brush and other eas-
ily combustible materials must be cleared at least
25 feet of the area to be burned.
A notice by the landowner or person burning or
welding must be made to the sheriff’s office of Van
Zandt County by calling 903-567-4133 before any
burning or welding is commenced.
For more information, call 903-567-6026.
Club On Target With Disc Golf Event
Canton Club Plans First Tournament
Sept. 28 At Cherry Creek Park
Photo by Donnita Fisher
Canton Disc Golf Club President Chris Earlston sinks a putt at the Cherry
Creek Disc Golf Course.
By Donnita Fisher
StaffWriter
Chris Earlston resisted
playing disc golf for a long
time.
“I’d always say ‘it’s not
real golf,’ ” he said.
Then one day about two
years ago, a friend asked
him to play and he didn’t
have anything else to do so
he said OK. “I went and
started throwing the disc
around and then I got my
own disc and then I got a
couple of disc and it just
grew from there,” Easton
said.
Now two years later,
Earlston is the president of
the Can ton Disc Golf Club.
“I love the game,” he said.
“And it’s cheaper than
golf.”
To play disc golf, a fly-
ing disc is thrown to a tar-
get or basket. According to
the Professional Disc Golf
Association, “the object of
the game is to traverse a
course from beginning to
end in the fewest number
of throws of the disc.”
The CDGC plays on
Saturdays at Cherry Creek
Park. The park boosts an
18-hole disc golf course
and the disc golf club has
plans to add 18 more holes.
“The current 18 holes are
an amateur course for be-
ginners,” Easton said.
“The new course will be
for pros.”
Before that new course
goes in, however, the club
is sponsoring a Discraft
Ace Race charity event. Set
to begin at 9 a.m. Sept. 28,
the race will ‘ ‘help introduce
the sport to more people
and raise money for a wor-
thy cause,” Earlston said.
Proceeds from the tour-
ney will be divided by the
Youth Leadership Council
Region 4 The Real Deal
and the Children’s Welfare
Bureau Santa’s Christmas
Fund. Half of the proceeds
will go to the charities, 25
percent will go toward
course improvements and
the remaining 25 percent
will be used for tourna-
ment prizes, Earlston said.
According to informa-
tion from Discraft, Ace
Races are held at disc golf
courses around the world
each August through Oc-
tober. The goal of the
event is “to throw aces.”
Much as in golf, an ace is
when the disc makes it into
the basket with one throw.
“No putting, no approach-
ing ... just runnin’ at the
chains,” Discraft explains.
In disc golf, Baskets are
200 to 1,500 feet from the
tee pad and, depending on
area, there can be obstacles
such as trees. The game is
scored just like golf “and
the rules are pretty much
the same,” Easton said.
Of course, the big dif-
ference is there is no
charge to play on a disc
golf course and the only
equipment needed is a
disc. That doesn’t mean a
serious disc golfer will
stop at one disc. Earlston
has 32 discs. “Each one
does something different,”
he said. “Some are driv-
ers, some are mid-range
and some are putters.”
For the Ace Race event,
there is a $25 entry fee but
every participant will re-
ceive two titanium proto-
type drivers, a titanium
mini magnet disc, two re-
usable scorecard bag tags,
two plastic pint glasses, a
beverage koozie and a tri-
pane Discraft sticker.
“The entry fee is $25
put you’ll get more than
that in giveaways,” said
David Bledsoe, vice presi-
dent of the CDGC.
The titanium prototype
drivers are worth about
$20 each, Earlston said,
and when the other items
“it’s worth twice what you
paid to register and you get
to come out and have a
good time.”
The Ace Race will be
divided into two divi-
sions - youth for ages
11 to 16 and adult for
those 17 and up.
“We’re hoping to have
80 to 180 players at the
tournament,” Earlston
said.
Participants can play
in mini games for $5
each and purchase
mulligans for $2 each,
$9 for 15 or all 18 for
$25.
To register, sponsor or
donate, contact Earlston
at 903-275-8580, email
c.earlston@gmail.com
or mail checks to Can-
ton Disc Golf Club, 410
VZ County Road 2122,
Canton TX 75103.
Photo by Donnita Fisher
Members of the Canton Disc Golf Club include, sitting from left, Dan Perez, Vice President David
Bledsoe, Larry Bledsoe, standing, David May, President Chris Earlston, Jason Campbell, Josh
Rosemond and Mike Stout.
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