The Turnstone Center for Disabled Children and Adults is raffling off this 1958 Corvette on October 12th. To order tickets, and get additional information about the raffle, call Car Raffle at (260) 483-2100, or go here. All proceeds support programs and services at Turnstone.
Links to local blogs are to the right. Thanks to the blogs that have linked to me so far. I'm not going to beg anyone to link me but if it just naturally happens then that's cool, and fits in with my underground way of promotion.
There may be some crazy rule that in city limits that even if you have animals like goats or chickens and roosters (like at River City) that as long as they have a name (for example: "Gary") that it's actually ok.
Here are a few shots from the Three Rivers Festival Coed Fours Beach Volleyball Tourney last Saturday. At least three different photographers were out there. The first two shots are from local photographer Steve Shive, with more at this site, and the last one is from the Journal Gazette.
This is from Ryan Lengerich of the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel:
Construction will take 30 to 45 days, and another 10 weeks will be needed to grow the grass, Slater said. The course, which will cost about $8 to play, could open as soon as spring 2007.
"This is more about family entertainment," he said.
It will have bent-grass greens, fringes and a pond. Only putters (no wedges) will be allowed. Slater said he imagines the course will be suited for players ages 8 and older. A building is being renovated into a clubhouse, which will serve food. Slater also has considered applying for a beer and wine license at some point.
Slater, a Fort Wayne native, has a degree from Michigan State University in crop and soil sciences with an emphasis in turf grass management. He served as general contractor and designer for Cherry Hill Golf Club in the late 1990s, and said for years he considered the idea of a putting course in Fort Wayne but couldn't find the right spot for it.
The land for River City Links is in a floodway, but Slater has obtained the necessary state approvals to move forward. Slater will lease the land from David Anglin, who owns most of the property in the area. It also is home to the River City beach volleyball complex.
Natural-grass putting courses have become popular in tourist towns and golf resorts nationwide.
Thanks to everyone who came out to the midnight blind draw tourney last Friday night/Saturday morning . Through the course of the night a little over 100 people came through. It was actually the first event of the Three Rivers Festival this year.
