By Aidan Mortensen | KOAL News
With the winter season ending, the Carbon Events and Recreation Complex team is looking ahead to the wide variety of activities they will be providing in the spring. To reflect on the winter season and look ahead to what’s coming next for CERCUT, Castle Country Radio was joined by CERCUT Director Kourtney Cox and Assistant Director Alex Peczuh.
“We had a lot going on at the facility,” explained Cox of the winter. “We had various Christmas parties, Junior Jazz and the ice pond. Unfortunately, we didn’t get to open that as much as we would like.” Peczuh added, “It was a little warm this year, and we couldn’t keep people off it to let it freeze. We had a few things going on. It was a little rocky, pun intended.”
Focusing on what is coming up for the complex, Peczuh explained how parents can register their children for the upcoming sports seasons. “If they want to visit carbonrec.com, we have all of our registrations there. We try to keep our registrations open six months in advance. You can check out our Junior Bees, which is our T-ball and coach pitch program. Also our youth volleyball, spring soccer and we even have some adult leagues open there. Our summer slow pitch is open for men’s and women’s.”
With the weather warming up, residents of Carbon County and beyond will want to get outside and enjoy the outdoors more. One way to do this is the North Springs Shooting Range.” I think the problem with North Springs for a lot of people, especially locals, is that it’s kind of out of sight and out of mind, and we want to change that. We want to bring more attention to North Springs and get more people going out and visiting.” Cox continued,” It’s a fabulous facility. We have various shooting ranges out there. So we have a thousand-yard range, shotgun range, law enforcement, and everybody’s favorite, cowboy town. So we’d love to have people out there visiting. We’re going to be introducing some merchandise to North Springs so people can help us rep the facility as well … we’re open Thursday through Sunday, 9 a.m. to dusk and that is year-round except for major holidays.”
The Directors then set their attention to one of Carbon County’s premiere events, the County Fair. Carrying the theme of ‘Cowboy Boots and Coal Dust,’ Cox explained why this theme was chosen,” I would say those two things are really representative of our community as a whole, at least our heritage. Coal mining, Western heritage, farming, that’s what we do here in Carbon County. So we felt that was an appropriate theme for this year. And along with that, one of the things that we’re planning on doing is bringing back the coal shoveling competition to this year’s county fair.” She added,” We’re looking forward to that and we’ve already got community excitement going along with it.”
Still in its early stages of planning, the fair is searching for sponsors,” I would say our main thing right now is seeking sponsorships. So we have a really big event coming up that we haven’t fully announced yet, but there’s lots of people who are aware of it. So you’ll hear more about that as we get a little bit closer, but we are seeking sponsorships for that opportunity. That’s what we’re primarily focused on, as well as getting vendors for not only our fair, but also for our Girls Just Want to Have Fun Women’s Expo that’s coming up in March.”
For more information on sponsorships and vendor opportunities, visit CarbonUtahFair.com or call CERCUT at (435) 636-3702.
In closing, Peczuh said,” Come out and have fun with us. We have a lot of great things going on. We really do.” Cox added,” I heard somebody else say this morning, don’t say there’s nothing to do in Carbon County. And I have to second that. Not only do we have so many great things that go on through CERCUT between sports and community events and activities, but we have a lot that just goes on in our community. So come out, be a part of it.”
For more information on what’s happening at CERCUT, visit their website or follow them on Facebook.