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Ronan Golf Team takes swing at spring cleaning
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RONAN – Howling winds kept blowing the leaves from the half-filled trailer back onto the green grass, but that didn’t stop nearly 20 members of the Ronan High School golf team from scooping them back up and trying to dispose of them again as part of an annual clean-up day.
Just under two dozen teens showed up to give back and tidy up the Mission Mountain Golf Club on Saturday.
“We want to give back to the community,” Coach Matt Olson said. “The new ownership … let us use the course during our golf season and they also let us host an invitational tournament. So we just wanted to give back and clean up the golf course. It also helps the course along. It’s desperately needed spring cleaning.”
Assistant Coach Jesse Gray said it was nice for the team to work together.
“It’s really exciting to be out here with all the kids,” Gray said. “It’s kind of a bonding time with our kids. We’ve got our own little golf family.”
Developer Dennis Duty and owner Mike Maddy said supporting the young golf team is very important to them.
“We’re really concerned about making sure that kids have the opportunity to play golf in the Ronan community,” Duty said.
The clean-up day helps give the youth a sense of ownership of the course, Maddy said.
“I think the kids get more ownership if the kids go out and work,” Maddy said. “It’s a cool program. I like that kind of stuff, because it gets the kids more vested and they understand a lot more about what it takes to run the golf course.”
By the end of the day truck full after truck full of leaves and sticks had been gleaned from the course and it was looking much neater.
