Well, we gave our competitor phone book plenty of fanfare as it turned out last week.

We had the front page announcement that we would be starting delivery of our 2010 Fountain Hills & Verde Communities Telephone Directory last Saturday barring any wet weather.

The rain didn’t start until Saturday night, and it was actually an ideal day for delivery earlier with a high in the upper 70s.

But we received a disappointing phone call about an hour after we went to press with The Times last week. The sales rep with the printing company we use to print the slick covers and the binding of each book, told our business manager, Kip Kirkendoll, that the wet weather we have had in recent weeks had prevented them from doing the binding. Apparently, it was curling the paper on several sections of the book and they couldn’t get a perfect bind.

Hopefully, it does indeed dry out enough to get at least part of our books delivered today or tomorrow, so that we may begin delivery of the new directory to homes and businesses by this coming weekend.

Be watching the 4:30 News for updates later this week.

As for our competition, the one with the bobcat on the cover, we want to assure those of you that advertised and couldn’t find your ad, that that was not our book that was delivered to homes late last week.

Our book is the one with the entry monument at the Palisades-Shea entrance to the community on the cover.

Our book is the one with plenty of local advertising from businesses that residents can use for their next purchases, and our White Page section has been totally updated with  many new cell numbers listed by people who have converted to their cells instead of using the previous “land lines.”

Our book is the one with separate listing pages for Fountain Hills, Rio Verde, Tonto Verde and Fort McDowell.  You can compare the two books and decide which is the keeper.

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There was a good turnout for the disc golf competition at Fountain Park last week.

Some of the competitors I saw were amazing, both in how far and how accurately they can throw those discs. I still have fond memories of throwing a Frisbee in my younger days. Now there is an entire sport with formal competition using a similar plastic disc.

 And our park is a perfect place for it. I bet the lady who first proposed installing the disc golf course in the park would be proud and smiling to see the activity last week.

Who was she? Her name was Phyliss Martin, an employee of Pratt Properties (the master developer at that time). She served as chairperson of the committee that planned Fountain Hills’ 10th anniversary celebration as a community. That was in 1980.

That 17-day celebration also introduced many of us to the White Castle hamburger.

I don’t know where Phyliss is these days. She lived here for quite a few years, but I haven’t seen or talked with her in at least 10 years.

Do any of you readers know her whereabouts?