Book, notice folder and spelling homework, 227 grams. Pencil case, 85 grams. Pocket notebook with fairy cover, 28 grams. Lunch, 570 grams. Placemat, 42 grams. Hat and mittens, 227 grams. Extra hat, 28 grams. Inhaler, 28 grams.
Sunscreen, 114 grams. Hand sanitizer, 28 grams. Moisturizer, 28 grams. Cellphone (not working), 42 grams.
Add these and other small treasures squirrelled away in the pockets of the plaid backpack — 935 grams — together and it all adds up to more than three kilograms. In itself, perhaps not that much. But for Grade 2 student Hazel Taylor, it clocks in at more than 10% of her body weight. Alberta Health Services recommends that children's growing bodies should carry backpacks that weigh no more than 10% of their body weight to avoid developing chronic health problems in their adult life.
"It's sometimes heavy because I have my lunch kit and water bottle and heavy stuff," Hazel, 7, says of her backpack.
Her father, Kirk Taylor, has hefted the bag.
"For her, I think it's definitely heavy," says Taylor, also noting that Hazel has never complained about a sore back or shoulders from carrying her backpack. Some items, he acknowledges, could be left at the school rather than brought back and forth, such as an extra change of clothes, "I'm sure if we went through it, there is stuff we could take out."
Keeping within the recommended weight is likely a challenge for many Calgary students. Lunch, a water bottle and snow pants, not to mention a few school books or an agenda, and the bag itself, and the weight easily adds up to more than 10 per cent of a child's body weight, especially in the youngest grades. Hauling heavy textbooks back and forth from home to school becomes a concern for the older grades.
At Hazel's school, Captain John Palliser School in the northwest, a casual weighing of a small sample of backpacks and grades 1 and 2 students showed most are just under that 10 per cent mark at eight or nine per cent of body weight. One Grade 2 student hit a high of 17 per cent, while one Grade 1 was at a low of five per cent.
Neither the Calgary Board of Education nor the Calgary Catholic School District have written policies directing a maximum weight children should be carrying in their bags.
"We don't specify an administrative regulation regarding that," said Jeannie Everett, director of Area 1 for the Calgary Board of Education. "We certainly tell parents, through our school news letters, that we support the Alberta Health Services' recommendations and that parents ultimately get to determine the type of backpack that their kid carries and what goes into them."
Grade 1 student Sam Symanczyk's mom bought her a roller bag this year.
"I remember as a kid having pain and neck problems because of a heavy backpack and from carrying it on one shoulder," said Angela Symanczyk, a certified personal trainer. Last year, her daughter complained about the weight of her backpack, but the roller bag seems to have solved most of the problem.
"When I roll it, it gets kind of heavy and my arms get tired. Then I switch arms," Sam says of her bag. She does still need to lift it at times and it can get stuck on snowy ground, but it mostly alleviates carrying the weight.
Julia Brooks, physical therapist with Alberta Children's Hospital, works with children experiencing neck and back pain.
"I wouldn't say that there are more new neck and back injuries, but I would say that the current load we're asking students to carry in their backpacks certainly increases the amount of pain and disability that we see related to that," she said.
"If we look at a teenager at 130 pounds, that (10 per cent of body weight) is only 13 pounds. They're lugging along five textbooks and a trombone and pair of gym shoes and their lunch, and that quickly adds up to 30 pounds. I've had some kids weigh their backpacks, and they're in excess of 30 pounds. It's more like going on a backpack trip than going to school every day."
While she hasn't seen any research literature specifically on how backpacks relate to back problems in children, she does say school bags tend to be a prime suspect when trying to sort out why a child is experiencing back and neck pain.
"Often backpacks are a huge contributor (to such pain)," Brooks said.
She suggests lightening the load by leaving textbooks at school if there is access to another set at home, and wearing a proper backpack so weight is well-distributed. Good posture is the other piece to solving the pain puzzle.
"If you look at desk workers and students, they tend to be the ones who have significant levels of neck and back pain purely because of the position they are constantly in," Brooks said.
Taking "posture breaks" — standing up or sitting up straight every 20 minutes and tightening core muscles helps give your back a break.
And those cool courier-style bags? Leave them at home, Brooks said.
"Ideally when you're wearing a bag with weight, you want the weight distributed over both shoulders," Brooks said. "If you only have a strap on one side (backpacks included), it means that all the muscles on one side are trying to hold you up and the other side is getting overstretched. Courier bags are definitely more stressful on the spine and the musculature around the spine."
Hazel's teacher, Nancy Baines, noted that school bags are a weighty subject and reflect changes in our society. With longer bus rides, some kids are passing the time with electronic devices from iPads to Nintendo DS. Older kids have computers to tote with them.
"Over the years, bags seem to have gone up in weight because of the extra things students need," said the teacher of nine years, who has also seen changes that make them lighter, including using a notice folder instead of a heavy agenda to communicate with parents.
2012年4月5日星期四
2012年3月29日星期四
Product review- OGIO RIG 9800 LE Gear Bag
Ogio have always had a reputation of making some of the best gear bags on the market, so when it was time to start looking for a new gear bag earlier this year my first call was to Lusty Industries, to see if they had anything available that would carry a full set of riding gear including boots and helmet all in one bag to meet my travelling requirements.
A few days later an OGIO RIG 9800 rolled up on my front door step and it could not have come at a better time, with a trip to Coffs harbour only a few days away. After ripping it out of its packaging the first thing that I wanted to test out was the most important requirement I had, would it fit all my riding gear in comfortably ?
The answer was a very comfortable yes, I was able to load the RIG 9800 up with Boots, Helmet, Two full sets of riding gear , my leatt neck brace, three sets of goggles, tearoffs, and still had room to spare! At that point I decided I may not need to take a secondary bag for toiletries and some clothes and I was right.
The top outer pocket on the outside the bag provided the perfect place for the toiletries, while there was enough room in the main compartment in the bag for a change of clothes. I then managed to slide some more necessities into the two upper pockets in the top inner section of the bag.
All in all, I managed to squeeze quite a lot in there. With the bag loaded the next big test was about to be undertaken. I had a 23kg bag limit for the flights each way, most airlines allow between 20kg to 23kg depending on who you fly with, before you have to start paying excess baggage fees. I pulled the bathroom scales out placed the bag on top and fully loaded it came in at 20.5kg well under what I was looking for.
The weight of a gear bag is something that can be overlooked when purchasing a new bag. Considering the overall size of the OGIO RIG 9800, along with the great construction, the under carriage which comes with hardened protection and a decent set of wheels for the bag to roll on , the 9800 does come in at very reasonable 6.4kg which leaves plenty of spare weight available when packing for travel.
The only additions that could come in handy on this bag would be some additional outer pockets for quick access storage, though the one pocket on the top of the bag is quite big.
Also there is not much in the way of ventilation, this does help with ensuring the protection of your riding gear inside the bag with more padded protection around the whole bag, but can leave you holding your nose if the bag is full of wet used riding gear that has been travelling home for more than a day.
Overall the OGIO 9800 RIG is a great gear bag and is doing exactly what I need of it, it holds more than a full set of riding gear top to bottom, is light enough when completely loaded to make it under the weight limits when flying and, is easy to travel with, the large set of wheels make the bag a breeze to pull along and the 9800 RIG slides perfectly into the boot of the car for local races. After a few short months with the OGIO bag I could not be happier.
A few days later an OGIO RIG 9800 rolled up on my front door step and it could not have come at a better time, with a trip to Coffs harbour only a few days away. After ripping it out of its packaging the first thing that I wanted to test out was the most important requirement I had, would it fit all my riding gear in comfortably ?
The answer was a very comfortable yes, I was able to load the RIG 9800 up with Boots, Helmet, Two full sets of riding gear , my leatt neck brace, three sets of goggles, tearoffs, and still had room to spare! At that point I decided I may not need to take a secondary bag for toiletries and some clothes and I was right.
The top outer pocket on the outside the bag provided the perfect place for the toiletries, while there was enough room in the main compartment in the bag for a change of clothes. I then managed to slide some more necessities into the two upper pockets in the top inner section of the bag.
All in all, I managed to squeeze quite a lot in there. With the bag loaded the next big test was about to be undertaken. I had a 23kg bag limit for the flights each way, most airlines allow between 20kg to 23kg depending on who you fly with, before you have to start paying excess baggage fees. I pulled the bathroom scales out placed the bag on top and fully loaded it came in at 20.5kg well under what I was looking for.
The weight of a gear bag is something that can be overlooked when purchasing a new bag. Considering the overall size of the OGIO RIG 9800, along with the great construction, the under carriage which comes with hardened protection and a decent set of wheels for the bag to roll on , the 9800 does come in at very reasonable 6.4kg which leaves plenty of spare weight available when packing for travel.
The only additions that could come in handy on this bag would be some additional outer pockets for quick access storage, though the one pocket on the top of the bag is quite big.
Also there is not much in the way of ventilation, this does help with ensuring the protection of your riding gear inside the bag with more padded protection around the whole bag, but can leave you holding your nose if the bag is full of wet used riding gear that has been travelling home for more than a day.
Overall the OGIO 9800 RIG is a great gear bag and is doing exactly what I need of it, it holds more than a full set of riding gear top to bottom, is light enough when completely loaded to make it under the weight limits when flying and, is easy to travel with, the large set of wheels make the bag a breeze to pull along and the 9800 RIG slides perfectly into the boot of the car for local races. After a few short months with the OGIO bag I could not be happier.
2012年3月18日星期日
Things learned, observed in Pacific high school spring sports season Week 4.0
It was noble in concept when then-district superintendent Mike Diekmann put a true DODDS Japan sports circuit on the map for school year 1999-2000.
Schools in far-flung locales, E.J. King, Matthew C. Perry and Robert D. Edgren no longer had to go longing for competition against their Kanto Plain brethren; they each now have full-fledged schedules in football, volleyball, tennis, cross country, basketball, wrestling, baseball, softball, track and soccer.
Problem is, the weather sometimes is uncooperative and the calendar always is, at least where tennis, baseball, softball, track and sometimes soccer are concerned.
Purely by chance, the last two weekends have proven to be rain magnets. Heavy rain, sideways rain, the sort of rain that settles in and keeps up all day or all weekend.
Two Kanto Plain track and field meets got called off 17 hours before they were to begin on Saturday, an international-schools meet at Tokyo's Kinuta Park and a DODDS all-comers meet at Camp Zama. This, a week after a combined Japan schools practice meet at Zama got almost completely washed out, except for a few running events. Guess the meet organizers didn't want to take a chance after that March 10 washout. Wise decision.
Baseball and softball were completely out of the conversation on March 9-10 at Zama. Perry, King and Edgren did get in some boys and girls games at Yokota, Zama and Nile C. Kinnick on Friday, but Saturday's action was a wash. Soccer matches did get played at Sasebo, where E.J. King's fields are turfed, and at Iwakuni, where Perry's match organizers got creative in clearing the field; more on that later.
It's an exercise in frustration, especially since most weekends are filled, wall to wall, with long-haul matches on the schedule. It's 360 miles from Tokyo to Misawa, some 560 miles to Iwakuni and 780 to Sasebo. It's much easier to reschedule Kanto Plain matches, when the schools are so much closer. It's nigh onto impossible to reschedule DODDS Japan sports events of most any type once postponed. Worse, there are fewer options for the outlying schools, where international schools are fewer or more distant than in the Kan-to and Japanese schools have their own leagues.
Squeegees are normally associated with tennis courts when rain turns hardcourts into skating rinks. Mark Lange, Matthew C. Perry's boys soccer coach, continues to make creative use of the court driers on a different sort of court – the soccer pitch.
From 6:30 a.m. Saturday, Lange and his star striker Tyelor Apple, among others, wielded Squeegees to clear off enough water from Lake Perry (Lange's nickname for the school field when it becomes waterlogged due to heavy rain) so that Robert D. Edgren and the host Matthew C. Perry Samurai could play, albeit on a shortened field. The two schools teed it up, then played a mix-and-match game as the two sides used each other's players in a friendly match.
"Masters in the bag, working on my doctorate," Lange posted on Facebook in response to me calling him, "Lord of the Squeegee."
Schools in far-flung locales, E.J. King, Matthew C. Perry and Robert D. Edgren no longer had to go longing for competition against their Kanto Plain brethren; they each now have full-fledged schedules in football, volleyball, tennis, cross country, basketball, wrestling, baseball, softball, track and soccer.
Problem is, the weather sometimes is uncooperative and the calendar always is, at least where tennis, baseball, softball, track and sometimes soccer are concerned.
Purely by chance, the last two weekends have proven to be rain magnets. Heavy rain, sideways rain, the sort of rain that settles in and keeps up all day or all weekend.
Two Kanto Plain track and field meets got called off 17 hours before they were to begin on Saturday, an international-schools meet at Tokyo's Kinuta Park and a DODDS all-comers meet at Camp Zama. This, a week after a combined Japan schools practice meet at Zama got almost completely washed out, except for a few running events. Guess the meet organizers didn't want to take a chance after that March 10 washout. Wise decision.
Baseball and softball were completely out of the conversation on March 9-10 at Zama. Perry, King and Edgren did get in some boys and girls games at Yokota, Zama and Nile C. Kinnick on Friday, but Saturday's action was a wash. Soccer matches did get played at Sasebo, where E.J. King's fields are turfed, and at Iwakuni, where Perry's match organizers got creative in clearing the field; more on that later.
It's an exercise in frustration, especially since most weekends are filled, wall to wall, with long-haul matches on the schedule. It's 360 miles from Tokyo to Misawa, some 560 miles to Iwakuni and 780 to Sasebo. It's much easier to reschedule Kanto Plain matches, when the schools are so much closer. It's nigh onto impossible to reschedule DODDS Japan sports events of most any type once postponed. Worse, there are fewer options for the outlying schools, where international schools are fewer or more distant than in the Kan-to and Japanese schools have their own leagues.
Squeegees are normally associated with tennis courts when rain turns hardcourts into skating rinks. Mark Lange, Matthew C. Perry's boys soccer coach, continues to make creative use of the court driers on a different sort of court – the soccer pitch.
From 6:30 a.m. Saturday, Lange and his star striker Tyelor Apple, among others, wielded Squeegees to clear off enough water from Lake Perry (Lange's nickname for the school field when it becomes waterlogged due to heavy rain) so that Robert D. Edgren and the host Matthew C. Perry Samurai could play, albeit on a shortened field. The two schools teed it up, then played a mix-and-match game as the two sides used each other's players in a friendly match.
"Masters in the bag, working on my doctorate," Lange posted on Facebook in response to me calling him, "Lord of the Squeegee."
2012年2月29日星期三
Hopkins Medical Products Introduces the Enhanced 2012 Rolling Med Bag
Hopkins Medical Products has finalized its 2012 enhancements of the Hopkins Rolling Med Bag. This enhanced bag now has scuff guards, larger wheels and a 2 3/8 inch ground clearance. It meets current healthcare guidelines for good bag technique and home healthcare best practice. It features a laptop section, "clean/dirty" sections, separate sharps container pocket and a compartment for the caregiver's personal items. The bag is made of a durable 600D waterproof poly fabric that is easy to clean. The Rolling Med Bag was created with the mobile healthcare professional in mind.
"We are all about continuous product improvement," said C. Louis Klug III, Vice President and General Manager at Hopkins Medical Products. "In today's dynamic customer environment, we are constantly getting feedback from the end user on how to modify our products to make their job easier."
For over 66 years, Hopkins Medical Products has taken pride in its tradition of providing quality products for quality care.
About Hopkins Medical Products
Established in 1945, Hopkins Medical Products specializes in designing and providing unique and hard to find healthcare products for nurses, physical therapists and healthcare aids for home healthcare, hospice and assisted living and hospital setting. The company produces the largest selection of professional home healthcare nurse bags in the world. Most nurse bags meet OSHA, JHACO and HIPAA guidelines. In addition, Hopkins Medical is involved in the manufacture and distribution of medical supplies including but not limited to sphygmomanometers, stethoscopes, single patient MRSA kits, spill kits, thermometers, pulse oximeters and diagnostic supplies.
"We are all about continuous product improvement," said C. Louis Klug III, Vice President and General Manager at Hopkins Medical Products. "In today's dynamic customer environment, we are constantly getting feedback from the end user on how to modify our products to make their job easier."
For over 66 years, Hopkins Medical Products has taken pride in its tradition of providing quality products for quality care.
About Hopkins Medical Products
Established in 1945, Hopkins Medical Products specializes in designing and providing unique and hard to find healthcare products for nurses, physical therapists and healthcare aids for home healthcare, hospice and assisted living and hospital setting. The company produces the largest selection of professional home healthcare nurse bags in the world. Most nurse bags meet OSHA, JHACO and HIPAA guidelines. In addition, Hopkins Medical is involved in the manufacture and distribution of medical supplies including but not limited to sphygmomanometers, stethoscopes, single patient MRSA kits, spill kits, thermometers, pulse oximeters and diagnostic supplies.
2012年2月23日星期四
Chute gate closes on long career
It will also give Marjory a break from her years of unpaid secretarial duties as she was generally the person fielding all the phone calls, from 1970 to 2011, from those requiring Jon's brand inspection services, often at odd hours or inconvenient times, day and night.
Quite often during calving time on their own ranch, Marjory was literally left "holding the bag" when Jon was called out unexpectedly to brand inspect some cattle elsewhere.
Jon offered some thoughts at the conclusion of the presentation: "It was a long career with many varied and interesting days, as well as some long, tiring tedious days but it was the people that I dealt with that made the job what it was.
"They were probably the reason that I stayed so long; most ranchers (cattle producers) are 100 per cent genuine, down-to-earth, friendly folks who I enjoyed being in contact with.
"Many, with whom I became acquainted with over many years of annual brand inspection trips to their ranch, have now become personal friends. So it was a great run, mainly because of the people. That includes many fellow brand-inspectors and auction yard staff-members. I'd like to thank everyone here, on behalf of myself and my wife Marjory."
The ranching community will miss this knowledgeable cattleman. He was the right type of person in a position where an individual's temperament and cattle knowledge (the quirks of bovine behaviour) can make all the difference between a smoothly handled cattle count and inspection, or alternatively, a disruption where the cattle are seriously riled up by over-handling or unwelcome human intrusion at all the wrong junctures.
Jon's boots (gumboots — insulated Mucks or Bogs these days because cattle pens are not normally dry or poop-free) won't be easily filled.
Quite often during calving time on their own ranch, Marjory was literally left "holding the bag" when Jon was called out unexpectedly to brand inspect some cattle elsewhere.
Jon offered some thoughts at the conclusion of the presentation: "It was a long career with many varied and interesting days, as well as some long, tiring tedious days but it was the people that I dealt with that made the job what it was.
"They were probably the reason that I stayed so long; most ranchers (cattle producers) are 100 per cent genuine, down-to-earth, friendly folks who I enjoyed being in contact with.
"Many, with whom I became acquainted with over many years of annual brand inspection trips to their ranch, have now become personal friends. So it was a great run, mainly because of the people. That includes many fellow brand-inspectors and auction yard staff-members. I'd like to thank everyone here, on behalf of myself and my wife Marjory."
The ranching community will miss this knowledgeable cattleman. He was the right type of person in a position where an individual's temperament and cattle knowledge (the quirks of bovine behaviour) can make all the difference between a smoothly handled cattle count and inspection, or alternatively, a disruption where the cattle are seriously riled up by over-handling or unwelcome human intrusion at all the wrong junctures.
Jon's boots (gumboots — insulated Mucks or Bogs these days because cattle pens are not normally dry or poop-free) won't be easily filled.
2012年2月19日星期日
Golf Bag: Fifth Hall Beckons Derr
The legendary John Derr reaps yet another honor tonight when he is inducted into the Carolinas PGA Hall of Fame in ceremonies at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center.
Derr will be the 42nd inductee into the hall of fame, which honors CPGA members who have made extraordinary contributions not only to the CPGA Section but to the sport of golf as a whole.
A special exemption was made for Derr, who is not officially a member of the CPGA. He served as the section's executive director for 10 years, retiring in 1984, and was instrumental in helping the organization become the strongest of its kind in the nation.
As Sherrill Austin, a longtime friend of Derr's and a 2001 hall of fame inductee, said, "If there is an individual living or dead that deserves to be in the hall more than John Derr, I can't think of one. John has done more for the section than most of the inductees that are in there now."
This is the fifth hall of fame selection for Derr, a Gastonia native and resident of Pinehurst.
"I enjoy them all," Derr said, "but none more than this. I am just as delighted as can be."
Boys & Girls: The annual Boys & Girls Homes of North Carolina will host its eighth annual golf tournament March 5 at noon.
The tournament, which is also in memory of the late Courtney Register, will be played on the award-winning Tom Fazio-designed Pinehurst No. 8 Course, and a noon shotgun start is scheduled.
The entry fee is $200 per player or $750 for a four-person team. There will be an awards dinner following play.
"The home (located at Lake Waccamaw) has served many children from the Sandhills area since opening in 1954," said tournament chairman Ron Jones.
For information, visit the website at bghncsndhills.org or call Jones at (910) 295-1819.
BackPack Pals: The sixth annual BackPack Pals Golf Tournament is scheduled for May 18 at Beacon Ridge Country Club in West End.
The purpose of this event is to help feed Moore County children who are in need of the service. There are more than 1,000 county children now in this program.
"Probably the single greatest benefit, in addition to providing nourishment for Moore County children, is that the recipients have been proven to perform in school on a much higher level, both socially and academically," tournament chairperson Ginger Finney said in a statement.
The tournament format is captain's choice with teams flighted by handicap. The entry fee is $65 per player. Teams of four may compete as a corporate sponsor with the name in the program for $300. Individual hole sponsorships are available for $100.
A lunch will be provided beginning at 11:30 a.m. A 12:30 p.m. shotgun start is planned for the tourney.
To enter, or for more information, call Finney at (910) 673-1330, or Jo Nicholas at (910) 673-3604.
Tin Whistles: The team of Joe Koontz, Frank Corcoran, Ron Kuklok and Jan Ludwig posted 215 to win the one gross, two net ball Tin Whistles Club event held on Pinehurst No. 4 Course.
Hugh Menzies, Murray Stern, Ken Hepner and Don Torgensen claimed second with 218.
Finishing third were Tom Race, Ski Kinelski, Dennis Dolgan and Bob Graham with 223.
Course Mulligan: McConnell Golf announced late last year it would be closing one of its eight clubs, Musgrove Mill Golf Club in Clinton, S.C., at least temporarily due to continuing losses and declining membership.
Turns out the reported closing was very temporary, with the announcement of formulation of a plan with the Musgrove Mill membership that will allow the club to continue operations. The plan includes a partnership that shares responsibility for keeping the club open, and if the new partnership is successful, then the club will remain open indefinitely.
McConnell Golf president and CEO John McConnell said the company is planning to transform Musgrove Mill into a more regional golf course with some innovative membership opportunities expected to attract a wide range of golfers from all over the country. Designed by Arnold Palmer Design Company and opened in 1988, Musgrove Mill boasts 6,933 yards of challenging golf for a par of 72. Over the years, Musgrove Mill has hosted almost every South Carolina Golf Association event and Carolinas' Amateur tournaments, and has been consistently ranked as Golfweek Magazine's "America's Top 100 Modern Courses" and Golf Digest's "Top 10 Rated Golf Courses for South Carolina."
The Mill's course design is expertly placed amid the secluded landscape with topography ranging from wetlands, various elevations and the Enoree River and is part of the Musgrove Mill South Carolina State Park.
McConnell said he has always envisioned Musgrove Mill as a tribute to pure golf and a great day-trip for any golfer wanting to tackle one of golf's finest tests.
Derr will be the 42nd inductee into the hall of fame, which honors CPGA members who have made extraordinary contributions not only to the CPGA Section but to the sport of golf as a whole.
A special exemption was made for Derr, who is not officially a member of the CPGA. He served as the section's executive director for 10 years, retiring in 1984, and was instrumental in helping the organization become the strongest of its kind in the nation.
As Sherrill Austin, a longtime friend of Derr's and a 2001 hall of fame inductee, said, "If there is an individual living or dead that deserves to be in the hall more than John Derr, I can't think of one. John has done more for the section than most of the inductees that are in there now."
This is the fifth hall of fame selection for Derr, a Gastonia native and resident of Pinehurst.
"I enjoy them all," Derr said, "but none more than this. I am just as delighted as can be."
Boys & Girls: The annual Boys & Girls Homes of North Carolina will host its eighth annual golf tournament March 5 at noon.
The tournament, which is also in memory of the late Courtney Register, will be played on the award-winning Tom Fazio-designed Pinehurst No. 8 Course, and a noon shotgun start is scheduled.
The entry fee is $200 per player or $750 for a four-person team. There will be an awards dinner following play.
"The home (located at Lake Waccamaw) has served many children from the Sandhills area since opening in 1954," said tournament chairman Ron Jones.
For information, visit the website at bghncsndhills.org or call Jones at (910) 295-1819.
BackPack Pals: The sixth annual BackPack Pals Golf Tournament is scheduled for May 18 at Beacon Ridge Country Club in West End.
The purpose of this event is to help feed Moore County children who are in need of the service. There are more than 1,000 county children now in this program.
"Probably the single greatest benefit, in addition to providing nourishment for Moore County children, is that the recipients have been proven to perform in school on a much higher level, both socially and academically," tournament chairperson Ginger Finney said in a statement.
The tournament format is captain's choice with teams flighted by handicap. The entry fee is $65 per player. Teams of four may compete as a corporate sponsor with the name in the program for $300. Individual hole sponsorships are available for $100.
A lunch will be provided beginning at 11:30 a.m. A 12:30 p.m. shotgun start is planned for the tourney.
To enter, or for more information, call Finney at (910) 673-1330, or Jo Nicholas at (910) 673-3604.
Tin Whistles: The team of Joe Koontz, Frank Corcoran, Ron Kuklok and Jan Ludwig posted 215 to win the one gross, two net ball Tin Whistles Club event held on Pinehurst No. 4 Course.
Hugh Menzies, Murray Stern, Ken Hepner and Don Torgensen claimed second with 218.
Finishing third were Tom Race, Ski Kinelski, Dennis Dolgan and Bob Graham with 223.
Course Mulligan: McConnell Golf announced late last year it would be closing one of its eight clubs, Musgrove Mill Golf Club in Clinton, S.C., at least temporarily due to continuing losses and declining membership.
Turns out the reported closing was very temporary, with the announcement of formulation of a plan with the Musgrove Mill membership that will allow the club to continue operations. The plan includes a partnership that shares responsibility for keeping the club open, and if the new partnership is successful, then the club will remain open indefinitely.
McConnell Golf president and CEO John McConnell said the company is planning to transform Musgrove Mill into a more regional golf course with some innovative membership opportunities expected to attract a wide range of golfers from all over the country. Designed by Arnold Palmer Design Company and opened in 1988, Musgrove Mill boasts 6,933 yards of challenging golf for a par of 72. Over the years, Musgrove Mill has hosted almost every South Carolina Golf Association event and Carolinas' Amateur tournaments, and has been consistently ranked as Golfweek Magazine's "America's Top 100 Modern Courses" and Golf Digest's "Top 10 Rated Golf Courses for South Carolina."
The Mill's course design is expertly placed amid the secluded landscape with topography ranging from wetlands, various elevations and the Enoree River and is part of the Musgrove Mill South Carolina State Park.
McConnell said he has always envisioned Musgrove Mill as a tribute to pure golf and a great day-trip for any golfer wanting to tackle one of golf's finest tests.
2012年2月14日星期二
Three Peterborough teenagers praised after finding lost cash
THREE honourable teenagers from Peterborough have been praised for helping to reunite an elderly woman with a shopping bag containing hundreds of pounds in cash.
The trio of 13-year-olds from Dogsthorpe found the bag near Cheetans Mini Market, in Chestnut Avenue, on their way home from the Thomas Deacon Academy, in Queen's Gardens, on Thursday afternoon.
Beneath a layer of doggy treats, the group – Connor Burdock, Darryl Edwards and Jake Harding – found a Blackberry mobile phone and a purse containing a wad of cash, as well as bank cards and train tickets.
Darryl, of Poplar Avenue, said his first thought was for the owner of the bag.
He said: "I felt sorry for the person who lost it."
The resourceful boys then searched on the phone for contact details in the hope of tracing the owner, but the only number listed was a taxi firm.
They called the number, and the person who answered said they would come to collect the bag in five minutes in return for a reward.
The boys then called the police to report the discovery of the lost items.
However, before officers had the chance to arrive the owner of the shopping bag, an elderly woman in a mobility scooter, appeared from around the corner to re-discover her belongings.
Darryl said: "It was nearly at the end of the police conversation.
"She came round the corner and said 'that's my bag' and said 'thank you'."
The boys at first declined a reward, but the woman, who was due to head to London the following day, insisted and gave them 3 each.
This was spent, perhaps unsurprisingly, on sweets.
The youngsters have been richly praised for their actions.
A spokeswoman for Cambridgeshire police said: "The boys showed great initiative and thanks to their investigations were able to reunite the lady with her bag."
The Mayor of Peterborough Cllr Paula Thacker, meanwhile, said she was so impressed by the boys's sense of civic duty she said she would like to hear from them to arrange a meeting at the Mayor's Parlour in Town Hall, in Bridge Street.
She said: "If they want to get in touch with me and see me in the parlour they are very welcome to."
She added: "They are showing how the citizens in Peterborough should act when they come across anything.
"I think it's wonderful."
Darryl's proud mum Caroline Greenwood (32), of Poplar Avenue, said: "I was really, really proud. I was proud my son could do something like that."
She added: "I know there have been a lot of problems down Central Avenue with teenagers with anti-social behaviour. It just shows they are not all the same.
"I don't believe in labelling people, it just proves they are not all the same.
"No matter what people think there are good kids out there."
The trio of 13-year-olds from Dogsthorpe found the bag near Cheetans Mini Market, in Chestnut Avenue, on their way home from the Thomas Deacon Academy, in Queen's Gardens, on Thursday afternoon.
Beneath a layer of doggy treats, the group – Connor Burdock, Darryl Edwards and Jake Harding – found a Blackberry mobile phone and a purse containing a wad of cash, as well as bank cards and train tickets.
Darryl, of Poplar Avenue, said his first thought was for the owner of the bag.
He said: "I felt sorry for the person who lost it."
The resourceful boys then searched on the phone for contact details in the hope of tracing the owner, but the only number listed was a taxi firm.
They called the number, and the person who answered said they would come to collect the bag in five minutes in return for a reward.
The boys then called the police to report the discovery of the lost items.
However, before officers had the chance to arrive the owner of the shopping bag, an elderly woman in a mobility scooter, appeared from around the corner to re-discover her belongings.
Darryl said: "It was nearly at the end of the police conversation.
"She came round the corner and said 'that's my bag' and said 'thank you'."
The boys at first declined a reward, but the woman, who was due to head to London the following day, insisted and gave them 3 each.
This was spent, perhaps unsurprisingly, on sweets.
The youngsters have been richly praised for their actions.
A spokeswoman for Cambridgeshire police said: "The boys showed great initiative and thanks to their investigations were able to reunite the lady with her bag."
The Mayor of Peterborough Cllr Paula Thacker, meanwhile, said she was so impressed by the boys's sense of civic duty she said she would like to hear from them to arrange a meeting at the Mayor's Parlour in Town Hall, in Bridge Street.
She said: "If they want to get in touch with me and see me in the parlour they are very welcome to."
She added: "They are showing how the citizens in Peterborough should act when they come across anything.
"I think it's wonderful."
Darryl's proud mum Caroline Greenwood (32), of Poplar Avenue, said: "I was really, really proud. I was proud my son could do something like that."
She added: "I know there have been a lot of problems down Central Avenue with teenagers with anti-social behaviour. It just shows they are not all the same.
"I don't believe in labelling people, it just proves they are not all the same.
"No matter what people think there are good kids out there."
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