BEND, Ore. Despite having tried most outdoor activities, I’d never attempted the high-tech treasure hunt of geocaching, though I would stumble across caches all the time while out and about. I was ripe to give it a try.
Ridgefield residents pass town budget in referendum despite low voter turnout
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Ridgefield Town HallMacklin Reid / news@theridgefieldpress.com
RIDGEFIELD Of Ridgefield’s roughly 19,000 registered voters, only about 1,300 cast ballots in the town’s referendum Tuesday, but it was enough to pass the town’s proposed spending plans.
Residents voted in favor of the proposed municipal and education budgets, allotting the town about $48 million and the school board $102.26 million for the 2021-22 fiscal year. The municipal budget vote was 1,108-207 in favor, while the schools budget was 977-339.
Voters also approved spending for capital improvement projects including road repairs, turf field replacement, school building upgrades and a body and dashboard camera system for the police department.
Ayrshire school celebrates Blue Switch Day with outdoor fun
Blue Switch Day is held on May 2 each year and recognises when the US Government ‘flipped the switch’ and made high-accuracy GPS available to everyone.
Teigan and Michael from Cumnock s Hillside School are pictured at the start of their geocaching adventure (Image: Submitted/Ayrshire Post)
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With just your phone and a sense of adventure, you can set out to find hidden treasures throughout Marion County and beyond.
Geocaching became popular in the United States in 2000 after the government descrambled GPS signals, making them far more accurate.
“A man named Dave Ulmer in Oregon wanted to test that accuracy. He hid a container, marked the coordinates and put the information online, challenging anyone to find it. Three days later, someone did! That’s the start of geocaching,” says Chris Ronan, senior public relations manager with Geocaching HQ.
Today there are just over 1 million active geocaches hidden in America, and 40,000 of those are in Florida. In 2019 Florida logged more than half a million “found it” posts. An Internet search will provide the coordinates to current geocaches (2,044 to be exact!) hidden right here in and around Ocala. The Ocala National Forest and parks are also very popular hiding places.