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Show SPORTS The Park Record. Editor: Ben Ramsey sports@parkrecord.com 435.649.9014 ex.104 Twitter: @ParkRecSports B-1 CLUB’S NEW HIRE HOPES MOUNTAIN TRAILS TO BRING FOCUS, B-2 UNVEILS PLANS, B-3 www.parkrecord.com SAT/SUN/MON/TUES, MAY 26-29, 2018 Program helps veterans recoup in Park City AQUAFIT SUPER SATURDAY The PC MARC is hosting a free water aerobics pool party on Saturday, June 9. The event will showcase aquafit water aerobics, from 8 to 9 a.m., and is meant to help those interested in water aerobics see what aquafit is like and meet the program’s instructors. Visit parkcityrecreation.org or call 615-5401 for details. PARK CITY KARATE COMPETITION Park City Karate club is hosting its 10th annual Intermountain Karate Championship on Saturday, June 9, at Ecker Hill International Middle School. The competition, featuring kumite and kata, will serve as a USA Karate qualifying event open to all ages. In addition to the competition, Tom Scott, a national team competitor, will give a kumite seminar on June 8 from 5:30-6 p.m. at Ecker Hill. The seminar costs $40 to attend. For registration fees and more information visit www. parkcitykarate.com. TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD HOLE IN ONE Paula Hurd shot a hole in one on Hole 13 at Park City Municipal Golf Course on Tuesday, May 22. It was witnessed by Candace Bethke. TRAILSIDE DISC GOLF TRILOGY CHALLENGE Basin Recreation is hosting its third-annual Trailside Disc Golf Course Trilogy Challenge on Saturday, June 2. Those who pre-register for $35 will receive a player’s kit including a driver, mid-range and putting disc to keep. Check-in is at 8:30 a.m. with a shotgun start at 9. For more information, visit basinrecreation.org or call 655-0999. Please see Sports briefs, B-4 Left: Joshua Kelly drives his ball up the fairway of Hole 3 at Canyons Golf on Thursday during the Friends of Windward Wounded Warriors retreat. Right: Rod Menendez, center, laughs as his putt attempt just misses the hole at Canyons Golf on Thursday. The group of 30 Marine veterans all have the common bond of being treated while injured or ill with the Wounded Warrior battalion at Marine Corps Base Hawaii. Donors provided fishing trips, zip lining, golfing and more BEN RAMSEY The Park Record This week, the Friends of Windward Wounded Warriors, a Honolulu-based nonprofit which was created to support wounded, ill and injured Marines and their families, returned to Park City for its second annual Wounded Warriors retreat. Participants say the program, which is not affiliated with the Wounded Warriors Project, has been met with an outpouring of hospitality from Park City entities, which provided everything from food and lodging to guided fishing trips over the May 19-26 stay. According to the organization’s Facebook page, about 70 volunteers, alongside a host of donors, helped bring the trip together by providing food, transportation, access to private fishing areas and golfing. Sitting outside of the Hyatt Centric at Park City Mountain Resort, which had donated rooms to Friends of Windward Wounded Warriors, Steven Jensen, a retired Commander in the U.S. Navy’s chaplain corps, said he started the program in 2011 to fill in gaps between other nonprofits serving veterans. “Although there are a lot of programs that help post-9/11 combat wounded, there are other people who maybe had cancer and blood diseases, who are maybe not covered by those programs,” he said. “They are all ill or injured Marines and the sailors who go with them – the chaplains, corpsmen and the families.” In addition to the Park City retreat, Friends of Windward Wounded Warriors provides retreats for caregivers and has weekly sit-down opportunities for those who want to talk over coffee, and days for family activities. Jensen said the organization also has the ability to cut through red tape when other entities can’t. “When someone’s in the hospital and the doctor says, ‘They had back surgery, and we have to keep them for weeks until we can get the (U.S. medical) system to provide them with a recliner,’ I can buy it today and have it today, have it delivered today, and they can go home today,” Jensen said. 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