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Local business owner brings volleyball dream to life

Friday, September 3, 2010

by Brian S. Orban

Floyd Beck and Mayor Tom Rist pose at the beach volleyball court at Richard Aguirre Park. The new court represents a significant improvement to the local park, Beck said. Photo by Brian S. Orban

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One man's dream of building a beach volleyball court in Mountain Home grew into a grassroots effort aimed at benefiting the entire community.

The new volleyball court in Richard Aquirre Park represents "one of the most significant improvements to Mountain Home parks this year... a total volunteer effort that cost the city nothing," said Floyd Beck, who spearheaded the project.

Beck's idea began several weeks ago during a meeting with Mayor Tom Rist.

"When Floyd approached us with an idea of doing this for the city, we said we throught it was a good idea," Rist said.

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To MHresident, The advertising is all around the volleyball court. It's very nicely done.

-- Posted by SanderFam on Mon, Sep 13, 2010, at 9:29 AM

Way to go Floyd and citizens of Mtn. Home, amazing what we can accomplish together as a community!

-- Posted by Moanah on Sat, Sep 11, 2010, at 2:39 AM

Where is all the advertizing that this guy sold, to help pay for this venture. If its been put up somewhere, I haven't seen it.

-- Posted by MHresident on Thu, Sep 9, 2010, at 10:51 AM

Happy to read this too!

Jessie

-- Posted by jessiemiller on Sat, Sep 4, 2010, at 2:27 PM

This is an obvious hoax. No recreation can happen without the WRECD and decades of hoarding tax dollars.

-- Posted by AtomicDog on Fri, Sep 3, 2010, at 7:28 PM

This is great to read. Quality of life in Mtn Home needs to improve and this is a small but great step forward.

-- Posted by ID=Home on Fri, Sep 3, 2010, at 9:10 AM

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