Mini golf at the Library
The Christensen family includes their own Man in a Yellow Hat--one of the fun holes at the library course.
The Soda Springs Library’s mini golf event was held on Monday after a great deal of anticipation. The event was a success by any metric, which is especially impressive given that it is the first year the event has been held.
There were a total of nine holes for participants to play through, each one with a specific literary theme.
Title sponsor Ireland Bank headed up Hole number one, which contained a barnyard layout and an array of spider hazards. Ronda Lutz and Jennifer Squires were on hand to explain the hole to the more than 30 groups of golfers that made their way through the Charlotte’’s Web course.
Did you know that there is a Rocky Mountain Tolkien Society? According to member Trent Clark, it is potentially the largest such group in the western United States. The hole was a “hard 3” par featuring imagery from Tolkien’s works, and required some banking skill and finesse to navigate.
The Very hungry Caterpillar is a very popular children’s book, and near and dear to the hole’s creators Alan and Cindy Erickson. Erickson retired last year as the longtime Library Director of the Soda Springs Library, but she couldn’t possibly have stayed away from this event.
NPI Home Inspections and the Fullmer family created an Alice in Wonderland hole, with a deep cut “mome raths” hazard. The phrase is from the poem “the Jabberwocky,” which is perhaps the peak of nonsense rhyme in English literature.
It wouldn’t be a library event with out Dr. Suess, and the Rotary Club set up a Suessian course to celebrate the author’s works.
The Dr. Preston Christensen family went all out for the Curious George hole, complete with a pair of Georges and a Man in a Yellow Hat to bring it to life.
Fulldraw Archery and the Vedder family took the road less traveled with a Pippi Longstocking course.
Perhaps in a nod to real life, Cejay Golightly represented the Soda Springs Police Department at a Busytown course through the stacks in the lower floor of the library.
The hole shared space with a Where the Wild Things Are course put together by members of Fish and Game.
Friends of the Library President Beth Cherriett and Vice President Kate Lauck brought their own kids through the round of nine holes, as well as the upstairs dining accommodations that kept people’s energy up during the event!
