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According to its website, Sunset Golf Club is open to the public year-round. The golf course was designed in 1973 by course architect Geoffrey St. John Cornish.

“It’s one of the only professionally designed golf courses around,” said current club owner Pat Collins.

Collins said Sunset Golf Club, formerly Standing Stone Golf Club, is the only course in Huntingdon County with a driving range. Furthermore, there is a putting green and more than 6,593 yards of traditional golf and 18 holes of disc golf, which both can be played simultaneously.

“Disc golf does not interfere with the ball golfers,” Collins said.

Collins purchased the club in 2019. She said the biggest challenge was getting the property and club into the shape it is today.

She completely renovated the clubhouse, including an upgrade to the security and computer systems, replaced outdated maintenance equipment, upgraded the electricity and plumbing, took on a new lease for a fleet of Club Cars and conducted extensive drainage work on the course.

After her first year of ownership, Collins next built up the food and beverage end of the business. A number of groups hold weekly and monthly lunch meetings at the facility.

Despite all her work, Collins said she’s decided to sell the business because of health reasons.

“It’s hard,” Collins said. “I love that property. I played golf there before I bought it. I put my heart and soul into that place. The membership is phenomenal. I have mixed emotions. Ultimately, my health has to come first.”

Hurley Auctions in Greencastle is accepting bids for the sale.

“It’s turnkey,” said Hurley Auctions owner Matt Hurley. “Everything you need to run the business is included.”

The property’s liquor license includes Sunday sales and one year remains on the four-year Club Car lease.

A public showing of the golf course is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, April 21. During that time interested parties can tour the property, ask questions and submit bids. Hurley doesn’t anticipate receiving actual bids until the deadline date, but many have put out feelers about the package.

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Bringing the sport to Raystown Lake was the result of 600 volunteer service hours and $25,000 in Handshake Partnership funding, providing seed money for USACE facilities that engages local partners for improvements on federal lands. Those grant dollars are for projects like the disc golf courses that improve recreational opportunities for the public and benefit environmental stewardship.

Baltimore District Commander Col. Estee Pinchasin was joined by Raystown staff and regional partners for the ribbon cutting.

“From the start this course was and will continue to be a team effort,” Pinchasin said. “None of this would have been possible without the strong support from our local and regional partners who contributed and share our passion for upkeep and improvement within the Raystown Lake Region.”

Partners include Raystown Area Disc Golf, Kids in Parks, Standing Stone Disc Golf Club, Let’s Go Throw and Friends of Raystown Lake.

Ryan Bennett of Huntingdon is with Raystown Area Disc Golf and one of those who helped with the project.

“Disc golf is really growing,” Bennett said, “and it has grown rapidly locally and across the nation since COVID-19.”

Bennett said the reason for that is disc golf was one of the few activities that many people could participate in during the pandemic. Bennet joined Ranger Scott Graham and others on the team, spending over two years planning and developing the two courses.

What is disc golf? The sport was formally known as “frisbee golf.”

Bennett explains players throw a disc at a target. “It is an individual game, and each player keeps his or her own score.

Players start in a tee area and play towards the basket and in turn each player throws their disc towards the basket. The goal is to reach the basket with the fewest throws, just like in regular golf.

And similar to regular golf, disc golf courses are rated on how many tosses it should take for a player to put a disc in the basket. For example, the “Pine 9”…

The event will be free and open to the public.

The news comes roughly one week after organizers of the Creation Festival announced the long-running event is folding. Creation called the Agape Farm home for over 30 years.

Danny McKeehan, vice president of the Jesus Ministries board of directors, said Agape Festival won’t be Creation but noted many of the same people who worked behind the scenes all those years are lending their skills and spirit of volunteerism to the new event.

“We didn’t want the show, just a chance for people to draw close to the Lord,” he said.

The scheduling process is still underway but Jesus Ministries has secured the festival’s main musical act and its primary speaker.

Pittsburgh-based Josh Rutter, pianist and worship leader at his own hometown church, will serve as the festival’s featured musician along with his bandmates.

Evangelist Frank Menhart is taking on the role as main speaker for the four-day event. McKeehan said Menhart already has a strong Huntingdon County connection, having served as a youth pastor at a Mount Union church about 30 years ago. McKeehan said Menhart regularly returns to Huntingdon County to speak at local churches.

“He a very gifted speaker,” he said.

McKeehan said the plan to-date for the fest is to begin Thursday evening, fill all day Friday and Saturday with music and worship and close out the event Sunday morning with a church service.

“We want this to be a basic return to focusing on God,” he said. “There will be good music and good preaching.”

Bruce Shrewsbury, chief operations officer at the farm and Jesus Ministries board member, said his phone has been ringing off the hook between word that Creation is ending and that Agape Fest is beginning.

“We’re trying to pull off a four-day music festival in 80 days so we’re a little busy,” he said.

Shrewsbury said he welcomes the flood of calls as a sign that a higher power is looking out for the fledgling event which is…