Figure of weekmore
Sam and Harry are playing one day. On the first hole, Sam hits a wicked slice into the adjoining fairway. The ball hits another player right between the eyes and he drops to the ground.
Sam and Harry rush over to the prostrate man and find him unconscious with the ball laying on the ground between his legs.
Sam screams, "Oh my God, what should I do?"
Harry replies; "Don't move him. If you leave him there he becomes an immovable obstruction and, according to the rules, you are allowed a drop two club-lengths away."
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Ecologic Action – The Setun river to be clean
More than 15 years ago there was a garbage dump located on the present location of the Moscow City Golf Club. It is hard to imagine now, that once big piles of trash were lying on the place of to-day’s spectacular landscapes. Not only those piles spoiled the scenery of the place, but they also badly influenced the ecological environment of the Setun river, that is given the statute of the natural reserve.
One of the persons to improve this place wa the well-known hockey player Swen “Tumba” Johansson, that designed a difficult project of building the first in USSR golf-club, the objective, that was hard to reach in the Moscow of the end of 80’s. The history of the MCGC records enormous efforts that were required to put his dreams into real life. Efforts to keep the natural resort continue now.
On the 18th of July the United World Colleges (UWC), that chose Russia as location for its international environmental camp, carried on the Ecologic Action – “The Setun river to be clean !” 25 schoolchildren from different countries (Finland, Norway, Austria, Ireland, Czech Republic, Poland and Russia) took part in the action. In the majority of the named countries there is a tender and kind attention to the surrounding nature. The participants cleaned the banks of the Setun river and also draw cheerful graffiti devoted to the topic “Nature around us”. To encourage the children, the Moscow City Club organized excursion for them around its premises, the participants were told about the history of the Club’s creations. UWC is an international organization targeted to teach teenagers in different countries, it has high prestige and respect all the world over.
The patrons of UWC are His Royal Highness, Charles, Prince of Wales, Her Magesty the Queen of Jordan Noor, SAR President Nelson Mandela, and in Russia – former USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev. Taking into account the world reputation of the College, its international environmental camp with its action “The Setun river to be clean !” provides great opportunities to organize youth international cooperation to form proper ideology of the coming generation, based on the approaches of peace, tolerance, fairness, mutual understanding and, definitely, tender attitude to nature and environment.
2005-07-18
