MESA Soccer Complex

1020 Anderson Ridge Road, Greer, SC
Road Race: Inspirational Speaker: Interactive Games

$10 Entry Fee includes Making a Choice T-Shirt, #19 Wristband

Calendar of Events

• 9:00: 1st Annual “Making a Choice” 5K Road Race (Registration available at setupevents.com)

• 10:30: Race Awards

• 11:00: Inspirational Speaker – Dr. Milt Lowder & Josh Bradley (Brookwood Church)

• 12:00 – 3:00: Interactive Games
  2 Age Groups (4th – 7th Grade and 8th – 12th Grade)
  Along with 8 Giant Inflatables, Rock Climbing Wall, Summer Camps & After School Activities Sign-ups & Information, Food & Fun for the Entire Family
• 6:30: “Evening with Vince Gill” – Bi-Lo Center (tickets available on TicketMaster.com)

The proceeds from this year’s event which includes The Mac 2009 Golf Tournament on Monday, April 20th at The Cliffs at Keowee Springs will benefit The Greenville Family Partnership, The Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Carolinas and the Salvation Army Boys and Girls Clubs.

Hosted by The Mac Foundation and CESA.  For more information visit themacfoundation.com

Sterling Community Center
June 19: 7 pm
June 20: 10 am – 6 pm

This FREE event is designed for all children 9 – 14 years old.

Registration forms and on-line sign up coming soon.

Emailed to: joe@gcrd.org

Forms can me mailed to:

Joe Lanahan/ Hershey’s Track Meet

4806 Old Spartanburg Road

Taylors, SC 29687

ALL Athletes MUST PRE-REGISTER!!!

NO sign ups the day of meet.

Entry Deadline is April 11h

Entry Form 2012

Meet will begin at 8:30am.

PLEASE arrive early to make sure athletes are checked in.

Greenville Local Meet Event Schedule – 2012

If you have questions please contact Joe Lanahan: joe@gcrd.org

Official Rules 2012

RESULTS ARE HERE:   Hershey Place Results 2011

The purpose of the plan is to “improve the quality of life in Greenville” as well as “stimulate economic growth through increases in tourism and real property value.” The proposed plan would also seek to “enhance, protect, and preserve the environmental quality of open space, waterways and wildlife habitats.”

The completed network would involve 128 total miles with three different kinds of trails. Greenway trails will be an 8 to 12 foot wide, paved trail with a rubberized surface in some sections. This would be useful for biking, running, or walking, with natural or “green” surroundings. Where off-road trails are impossible, street based trails will have a sidewalk or a bike lane. Finally, natural surface trails are ideal for environmentally sensitive areas, where a natural surface will be used such as dirt or mulch.

The plan outlines five major corridors, most of which link together near downtown where I-385 ends. The Reedy River corridor would include the Swamp Rabbit trail and stretch from Traveler’s Rest to Simpsonville and Fountain Inn. The Greenlink Corridor would pass south of the Downtown Airport through Verdae and the Clemson ICAR campus. The Gateway Corridor would run just north of I-385 towards Greer and Spartanburg. The Richland Creek Corridor would run north towards Paris Mountain, passing near the intersection of Rutherford and North Pleasantburg. Finally, the Brushy Creek trail would split to the South of the Swamp Rabbit trail near Falls Park, cross I-85 just west of Augusta Road, and rejoin the Swamp Rabbit Trail soon thereafter.

Of course, all of this will take time. The first of three phases is slated to be fulfilled by 2014. Presently, priority is on the Reedy River corridor, which is why so much progress has been made on the Swamp Rabbit trail in the last year. Of course, this exciting initiative has also spurred action from outside of the city, including extensive work by Furman University and Traveler’s Rest. The network could also eventually connect into wider trail networks such as the Palmetto trail. Great things are ahead. Get involved, and stay tuned!

Our Learn to Skate Program is ramping up for the winter season. Our professional instructors will teach classes of children and adults with simple and easy to learn moves from the US Figure Skating Basic Skills Program. We will be offering classes on Mondays.  We will also be offering a Home School Class on Thursdays.  The program is now recognized as one of the finest programs and is a great way to learn how to skate in the safest possible way. 
 
We also have a new class for our future hockey players. The Learn to Ice Skate Program will now offer an accredited hockey specific class.  These classes are geared toward young hockey players who are new to the ice and the sport of hockey.  Learning the introductory skating skills can be an important asset to your player’s progress into the Junior Tigers program, so come check it out! 
 
For more information click here, or contact Jimmy Crockett at (864) 322-7529 ext. 203 or jimmy@gcrd.org.

The Pavilion would like to announce the New and Improved Learn to Play Hockey Program. The Junior Tigers Learn to Play Program has been certified by USA Hockey and the Carolina Amateur Hockey Association. 
 
If you are looking to get your kids into hockey, this is the time. We have a great introductory offer: Each player who signs up for the first time will have their registration fee waived. Participants will only have to pay the annual USA Hockey Registration fee of $37. We provide the jerseys and socks for each player. We will also have a limited number of rental hockey sets that will be available on a first come, first serve basis.

A new session of Junior Tigers begins on Monday, January 2nd.  The program takes place on Monday nights from 6:30 to 7:30.  Each session consists of 8 weeks.  The deadline to register is Monday, January 2nd, 2012.  Registration is limited to 55 participants.  Once the player has completed the course requirements, he or she will be ready to participate in the in-house hockey program.
 
For more information click here, or contact Jim Lazorik at (864) 322-7529 ext. 215 or jlazorik@gcrd.org.

Starting north of Travelers Rest, I’m passing residential homes and small businesses. Here I met a family of five from Travelers Rest, taking a short walk together. As the trail enters the city, the asphalt ribbon changes to plazas and sidewalks. I see benches, landscaped planters, and all the signs of effort to make the trail and the downtown of TR as nice as possible.

Now I’m leaving Travelers Rest and I’m surrounded by undeveloped land. The trail is mostly paved with fences and other developments. I pass a senior citizen out for an afternoon walk. A little further and I’m passing behind Furman University. If I choose, I can access their trails around the lake, use their restrooms, or enjoy the beautiful campus. But as I leave campus, I see parking on Duncan Chapel Road and bikers setting out for a ride on the trail. Another biker asks how far the trail extends and when it will be completed. The paved trail continues further south a little longer until I come to an area that is closed for the next few weeks. From being here in the past, I know that this is a beautiful area with thick forest, biological diversity, the quite peace that comes from being in nature, and where trail gets its name because of the small swampy area just down the trail and the undulating tracks caused the old trains to hop like a rabbit.

Where the trail passes through Sans Souci and crosses the Reedy river, I’ve been hearing great things about the neighborhood and the improvements that are coming. Further south, where the trail is open again, I’m coming into the City of Greenville. Here, the trail is fully paved and I find parking as well as a softball field. This section also has a rubberized section that makes running a lot easier. The trail carries me into downtown Greenville past the children’s garden and towards Reedy River Falls. I stop at one of the local art stores and duck into a restaurant for a drink. Passing by the falls I head towards Cleveland park with lots of other trails, playgrounds, a dog park, and the Greenville zoo. I pass a boy on a big wheel and his Mom pushing a stroller. Here, Caine Halter YMCA connects into the trail, as well as spur trails and bridges connecting the communities. I pass First Baptist Church and continue down Cleveland Street to where the trail stops—just short of Greenville Tech. Eventually, I will be able to continue under I-85 down to Lake Conestee Nature Park with it diversity of birds, overlooks and the 215 foot bridge arching high over the Reedy River.

Walking the Greenville Hospital System Swamp Rabbit Trail is a great way to experience Greenville and meet new people. With a major link completed in a month, it’s only going to get better. Give it a try yourself, and see what you think!

· Join in the Rabbit Rally. Saturday get on the trail anywhere between Travelers Rest and Greenville from 9am – 2pm. Look for people with rabbit ears. Grab a raffle ticket from them and be at the Peace Center Amphitheater at 3pm for a celebration of the trail and raffle. Show your raffle ticket to the bus driver at Sulphur Springs Rd and you’ll get a free ride Saturday downtown. Buses cross the trail on the hour from 9am-6pm Saturday. Look for the Greenlink Bus Stop signs.

· Sign up for the Swamp Rabbit 5k and make it the largest 5k in the state! Register today at Patewood/Acceleration Sports Institute (Building C)175 Patewood Drive Greenville, SC 29615 or before the race tomorrow at Gateway Park in Travelers Rest. Race starts at 6:30pm

· In celebration of the Swamp Rabbit’s connection of Greenville & Travelers Rest, two TR businesses are offering 100% of their proceeds for Wednesday, May 12, to the Swamp Rabbit. “Call Brady, Computer Services,” and “Compu-Counting” tax service, are taking appointments now. Brady (www.callbrady.com, 335-8672) is available for in-home/in-office appointments in Greenville and Travelers Rest. He specializes in home/business computer repair, networking, and training. Diana Kilgore (Compu-Counting, 834-5622) will be taking appointments in her office at 212 North Poinsett Hwy in Travelers Rest. Learn more (and see what other businesses have signed on for the event) at www.CallBrady.com/rails

· While we are pouring asphalt as I type and have already gotten 2 miles of this new section paved remember we may not have the entire section paved by May 8th but it will be in a condition that is open to walkers and bikers. A 1/10th of a mile section will remained unpaved because this part of the trail also serves as a service road for a truck at the mill near Cedar lane. It will be covered in stone dust like the Virginia Creeper trail.

· Until cars get use to the trail crossing at West Blue Ridge Rd and Sulphur Springs Rd, use high caution when crossing these high traffic roads. We are exploring opportunities to either tunnel or bridge over these roads, until then BE SAFE

Lovin’ bicycling on the road for forty years,

but not without some tears.

Some flowed at a railroad track,

when I landed on my back.

When the railroad crosses a trail,

you better remember your tail.

If you should cross it wrong,

you’ll sing the sad song.

The angle you make,

is a piece of cake,

When you cross be particular,

that you make it perpendicular.

Because, if on a bike, you do not cross a railroad track perpendicular to it, your wheel will get caught in one of the deep grooves on each side of each rail, the bike will stop abruptly, and you will fall and hurt yourself. Please wear helmet and riding gloves and cross perpendicular to rails.

See ya out there.

Ed Sherman

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