Disc Golf Community Raising Support For Beloved Organizer

"Hail and well met" is how Arden Carter Lee Jr. greets disc golfers with his post for events. Local disc golfers know him as Mr. Lee, the man who helps organize disc golfing events at Riverfront Park in Roseburg. Carter was hospitalized in mid-December for a leg amputation surgery and the community is rallying around him. The Riverfront Disc Golf Assocation are hosting a disc golf tournament fundraiser called the Winnipeg Invitation on Jan. 29 to support Carter. The tournament is open to pros and amateurs. Sign-ups start at 9 a.m. at the Riverfront Disc Golf Course the day of the tournament. Carter said he had a wound that was not healing on his foot for about 6 years and was mere weeks away from having a surgery to remove part of his foot when he developed necrotizing fasciitis, a bacterial infection that results in the death of parts of the body's soft tissue, and was rushed to surgery for immediate amputation of the limb at the knee. He said he has had lots of support from friends, family, and the medical centers that cared for him. "It is good to have so many folks, family and friends being thoughtful and generous and love," Carter said. "We have a great close community of Disc Golfers here in Roseburg and all over Douglas County. Losing my left foot is a good thing for me. I can now move forward in a positive direction for my future. I have a lot of hard work going on now and into the future to get to where I can be on my two feet again. 'Ever Forward' is the motto." A fundraiser tournament makes sense for a man who hosted so many for others over the years. Skyler Snook has played at the course with Carter and made a plea to other disc golfers to give back to him the way Carter gives back on a Facebook group for disc golfers. “Mr. Lee is one of the most kind souls I have ever met,” Snook said. “Even with all of his foot woes he would show up and run a random doubles league for everyone when he couldn’t even participate. He has put on many fundraiser tournaments for the riverfront disc golf course (like four a year the past couple years). He makes artwork for discs that get sold to fundraise and trophies. He is always charitable with his time and anything he has. After seeing Mr. Lee I’m almost always inspired to be quicker with a kind word and just overall enthusiasm.” His younger sister Reacal Martin created a GoFundMe page to help with the extra health costs. "Mr. Lee is an incredibly cheerful, humble man," Martin wrote on the page. "He is a dutiful father and granddad. He gives his time and talents, often for free, especially if there is a worthy cause. Now is the time for us to come through for him. Because it is unclear exactly what he will need for the next few months, we hope that by raising these funds it will remove the worry of it all and help him take care of his housing, medical, and personal needs until he is back on his good leg and fitted with a prosthetic for the other." https://www.gofundme.com/f/mr-lees-medical-fund