Thirty community leaders from throughout the lower Columbia region are participating in a Ford Institute Leadership Program (FILP). The Lower Columbia FILP class selected as its project the creation of a disc golf course at the Clatsop County Fairgrounds. To raise money for the disc golf course, class members are selling Mexican homemade tamales in three flavors: spicy pork, spicy chicken or spicy pepper and cheese. The tamales cost $2 each. 

The tamale sale will run through April 16. All orders received on or before Friday will be delivered April 15. Orders taken through April 16 will be delivered April 23.

The class is fundraising to match a grant given by the Ford Family Foundation. The total goal is for $20,000 to install the new course and set up a maintenance fund. The course will have 12 holes which will offer a variety of natural challenges as it winds through hillsides, wooded areas and long straight stretches.

Community residents and regional disc golf enthusiasts are encouraged to help with the project in a number of ways: lending expertise to the course design; donating materials or services; purchasing a T-shirt or disc with the course logo; and sponsoring a hole.

To order tamales by phone, call Eileen Purcell at (503) 338-2557. For information about the project, to make a donation, contact any class member, view the tamale order form or volunteer, log on to (www.lowercolumbiadiscgolf.info)