When the 15th annual Gender Bender Ultimate Frisbee tournament teams finally left the Fergus Sportsplex area after the weekend of June 4, its members also left a huge mess and piles of garbage behind.
But Centre Wellington Recreation Director not only said that is no big problem, but also he will welcome the group back next year.
Goldie said in an interview on Monday he did not yet have a total cost for the clean-up, but township taxpayers will not be on the hook for it anyway.
“It’s not your typical garbage,” he said, noting that there were piles of sofas and other debris not normally associated with campers who play Frisbee.
He said that garbage came about because the group has a “decorate your campground” competition and over the years it has grown and become more creative, so sofas are part of the outdoor décor.
“Each year, it grows and grows,” he said of that contest.
He noted it will take “two to three 13-cubic yard waste disposal bins” to haul all the garbage away, but the group will not only pay for that, its members even ordered the bins.
“They will be paying for it. This is a group we’re not worrying about,” he said. “They’ve always stepped up.”
Goldie said he suspects the weather had a lot to do with the garbage issue this year. The games scheduled for Saturday were wiped out in the morning due to a torrential downpour and he said that “didn’t help. Everybody went ‘We’re outta here’.”
He added the Gender Bender group is usually “very little work for us and good revenue. It’s a group we want to continue. If it was somebody else, we’d have a problem.”
But, Goldie said, “We have a damage deposit that should cover the cost. They ordered the bins. It was just more [garbage] than they’d planned.”
