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Calvert Crossing, Pine Hills merge
| by Scott Rogers - posted Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 @ 11:28 am | |
Members of Pine Hills Country Club and Calvert Crossing Country Club can now play both courses following the merger of the two golf clubs this week.
Todd Perry, John Mark Wilhite, Steve Murray and David Manuel are the partners who now own both clubs.
Pine Hills was established in 1974 and has been a favorite of many local golfers since it opened. Calvert Crossing opened more recently, in 2001, but quickly garnered hundreds of members. There are about 400 members in each club.
John Smith purchased Pine Hills in 1998. On Wednesday morning, he smiled and said he was officially the former owner. |
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News
Cofers applies for ULS presidency
University of Louisiana-Monroe president Dr. James Cofer announced Friday that he will seek the presidential position for the University of Louisiana System. |
OEDC Land Corp. finances murky
During a 15-month period that OEDC Land Corp. owned the former State Farm Insurance corporate offices in Monroe, the land corporation collected more than $800,000 on the property. |
West Monroe chamber conducts workforce study
The West Monroe-West Ouachita Chamber of Commerce may soon have a deeper understanding of the workforce training and development needs of its member businesses, thanks in part to a survey currently being circulated to businesses in the area. |
Kostelka opposes firearms on campuses bill
A proposal to allow college students to pack concealed firearms on campuses at the state's colleges and universities has come under fire from education advocates and at least one member of northeast Louisiana's legislative delegation. |
Police jurors narrow capital outlay requests
The Ouachita Parish Police Jury revised its state capital outlay funding request list for fiscal year 2008-09, making its top priority the land acquisition for the proposed southeastern Ouachita industrial park. |
Keep Ouachita Beautiful secures grant for litter efforts
Keep Ouachita Beautiful has received grant funding to establish a litter hotline for Ouachita Parish and to create educational DVDs to be distributed to civic organizations, schools and law enforcement agencies throughout the state. |
Comcast employees spruce up zoo
More than 50 Monroe and West Monroe Comcast employees, along with their families and friends, joined the Louisiana Purchase Gardens and Zoo Saturday for landscaping and renovation projects. |
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Columns
Picking presidential prejudices
This month a colleague of mine takes a job in another part of the state. Unfortunately, I was only able to work with him for about a year. However, I reflected upon our many conversations and realized that he had raised a number of interesting points, which caused me to write this week's column. |
Peanuts, politics and taxes
Sitting in the peanut gallery one gets the impression Gov. Bobby Jindal didn't actually believe the Legislature would seriously consider cutting state income taxes in Louisiana. |
Sports
Softball tourney planned
Monroe will host the USFAís Spring Invitational Friday-Sunday at the University of Louisiana-Monroe University Park Softball Complex. This is the largest fastpitch tournament in Northeast Louisiana and will bring in 34 teams from Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi. |
LSU extends winning streak to 11 with16-4 win over MSU
BATON ROUGE -- No. 22 LSU launched four home runs, including two by second baseman Ryan Schimpf, and junior Blake Martin fired seven sensational innings Saturday afternoon as the Tigers overwhelmed Mississippi State, 16-4, in Alex Box Stadium. |
Tigers rally just misses mark
SHREVEPORT – Even a home run by Trevor Stennett couldn't push the Neville Tigers past Archbishop Shaw Thursday night as the Tigers fell 9-8 in a hard-fought game which went nearly three hours in a Class 4A state semifinal matchup. |
Eagles advance to title game
The No. 1 seed Ouachita Christian School Eagles advanced to the class 1A state championship game Wednesday with an 8-0 victory over St. Martin's. |
Tempo
Genealogical, historical society plans meeting
The Northeast La. Genealogical & Historical Society will meet at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, May 11, in the Louis Locke Room of the Ouachita Parish Public Library's main branch, at 1800 Stubbs Ave. in Monroe. |
DAR chapter wins awards
Members of the Chief Tusquahoma chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution — including regent Gwen Clark, treasurer Toni Rodgers and registrar Viola Nugent — recently attended the Louisiana Daughters of the American Revolution State Conference in Baton Rouge. |
Barham to speak at ULM commencement
University of Louisiana-Monroe alumnus Robert Barham, currently serving as secretary of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, will speak at the spring commencement, scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday, May 17 in Fant-Ewing Coliseum. |
Black Bayou hosts pre-screening event
May's "Wild Friday"at the Black Bayou National Wildlife Refuge is a pre-release showing of an upcoming episode of "Nick Baker's Weird Creatures" television show. |
Art abounds in downtown
The Downtown Monroe Art Fest 2008 will be held this Saturday from noon-6 p.m. in downtown Monroe around Desiard and 2nd streets. |
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