| Knuckleheads is Dells' latest | | Posted Monday, March 12, 2007 2:56:45 PM by Blog57 Team | | LAKE DELTON - The mini van just got a little more weighted down for a get-a-way to the Wisconsin Dells area. In addition to swimming suits, hiking boots, golf clubs and coolers full of snacks and drinks, bowling balls may be the latest addition to the vacation packing list. The Waterman family, which built Noah's Ark Water Park and what is now Great Wolf Lodge, has opened an 80,000- square-foot indoor entertainment center that includes a 24-lane bowling alley, amusement rides and 125 arcade games. Part of the Knuckleheads Bowling & Family Entertainment Center uses the grandstand building of the former Wisconsin Dells Greyhound Park, which the Watermanspurchased in 1998, two years after it closed and eight years after it opened. .... | |
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| | | Blaze your own trail | | Posted Saturday, January 13, 2007 1:00:52 PM by Blog57 Team | | My next stop was due east of Brooksville, at Sherman Hills Golf Club, whose *** rating also seems a bit low. This 18 is a low-budget microcosm of the 36 holes offered at World Woods on the other side of town. Sherman's front nine was artfully carved from pastureland, accented by long waste areas of native sand and huge landscaped mounds that screen out I-75 along the sixth and seventh holes. The back nine plays through several oak groves, with an umbrella-shape oak in the 11th fairway and several more specimens framing the 17th green. Sherman Hills finishes with a flourish, a 594-yard hole that plays over a man-made hill, then down to a peninsula green surrounded by a pond. If there's a certain Fazio flair to some of the holes at Sherman Hills, it's because its designer, Ted McAnlis, once built courses for George and Tom Fazio, after McAnlis quit his job as a rocket engineer for NASA.... | |
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| | | Up to edgy just for fun | | Posted Monday, January 08, 2007 2:59:41 PM by Blog57 Team | | On 4-wheelers, teenagers can get a little cocky. It's fun being the splasher or the splashee, but on this ride, there were plenty of adults with plenty of experience, both on the 4-wheelers and the souped-up golf carts that go by the name Rhinos. On a cloudy, but relatively warm Saturday (Dec. 30), about 35 people gathered at a farm just west of the old South church for a day-long ride with lunch in the middle. The drivers maneuvered their way up and down wooded hillsides, across and through streams, a little rock-climbing, and, as always, talk about past rides, repairs, pros and cons of equipment, etc. When the day was over, there were two broken axles, one wrecked differential ($1,000 repair bill), some flat tires, and a strange problem with one Rhino with wheels that were spinning without the tires moving.... | |
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| | | Salt Lake City golf course vandalized | | Posted Thursday, November 23, 2006 12:57:07 PM by Blog57 Team | | For the second time in less than a week, the Bonneville golf course near Foothill Drive has been struck by vandals. And this time the damage is extensive. Sometime early Wednesday morning or late Tuesday night, vandals broke though the garage doors at Bonneville and accessed the golf carts. They then drove the carts over a huge embankment causing several thousands of dollars in damage. Golf Pro Steve Elliot is furious. "Somebody thinks this is funny, but it is not a prank. These garage doors are bent and the carts are worth up to four thousand dollars each." A reward of several hundred dollars is being offered and the golf course is setting up a neighborhood watch to stop this from happening again. .... | |
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| | | THE DOGMA OF BUTCH | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 2:56:39 PM by Blog57 Team | | As Butch the bulldog dangled in mid-air, his jaw clamped ferociously onto the shoe of the world's most famous dog trainer, one had to wonder: Can this dog be helped? His owners hoped so, but Butch was a dog with many issues: issues with golf carts. Garden hoses. Rakes and shovels. And on this day, their troubled canine appeared to be eating the host of a popular TV reality show. Calling Cesar Anytime Butch went near a golf cart, hose, rake or shovel, he appeared to hate these things, and he tried to attack anyone who touched them. Amy and Chap Reed of Fort Worth couldn't so much as water their lawn or ride around their property without the fear of being bitten by their English bulldog. Bedtime wasn't any better. In fact, they couldn't even order him to his bed in the kitchen without a charge, a snarl and an angry snap.... | |
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| | | King George parks golf-cart proposal | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 7:05:41 PM by Blog57 Team | | Brakes put on golf cart ordinance for Fairview Beach By COREY BYERS Date published: 11/9/2006 p { font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration: none; color: #000000; text-align: justify; background-color: transparent } By COREY BYERS An ordinance allowing residents of Fairview Beach to take to the road in golf carts has stalled again. For more than two years, Fairview Beach residents have sought approval to use carts on public roads in their community. Tuesday night, King George County supervisors tabled a proposed ordinance for the third time in recent months after board members voiced concerns about safety provisions. Supervisor Joseph Grzeika said the proposed ordinance was full of problems and that he wants another public hearing before it is considered.... | |
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| | | Chinese get picture of open-admissions policy | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 3:00:11 PM by Blog57 Team | | A delegation of Chinese education officials zoomed around Metropolitan State College in golf carts this week, clicking pictures of something not found in China - a campus full of nonelite students. The 11 officials from China's Ministry of Education were interested in Metro State's open-admissions policy, which automatically accepts anyone 20 and older with a high school diploma. The policy is a stark contrast to higher-education policy in China, where only those with the highest marks on a national exam attend college. China, where just 8 percent of college-age students were going to college in 1998, has been working for the past decade to expand the pool of college graduates. Now, about 21 percent of college-age students are enrolling, compared with about 35 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds in the United States.... | |
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| | | Golf Course Agrees to Offer Carts for Disabled | | Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 7:06:33 PM by Blog57 Team | | The Half Moon Bay Golf Links course will offer two modified carts for disabled players as part of a class-action lawsuit settlement, lawyers said. Course owner Ocean Colony Partners agreed to buy the carts to settle part of a lawsuit filed in October on behalf of two players in wheelchairs, plaintiff attorney Mark Chavez said Thursday. U.S. Army veteran Larry Celano, 37, of Arizona became a paraplegic after he was shot during the U.S. invasion of Panama, and Rich Thesing, 66, of Atherton injured his spine in a diving accident as a teenager, Chavez said. Thesing said the Half Moon Bay course denied his repeated requests to provide him with a modified cart. "It's very pleasing on the one hand, and it's disappointing on the other hand that it had to go this far to make something happen," Thesing said.... | |
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| | | Teens Steal Golf Carts | | Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 1:15:29 PM by Blog57 Team | | Salt Lake Police say the teens broke into a golf course shed and drove off in some golf carts. It happened this morning in Rose Park. Officers caught the teens in a field near Redwood Road and 200 North. Police captured all three, and booked the teens into a juvenile detention center. All of the teens are between the ages of 14 and 15, and now face felony burglary and criminal mischief charges. .voteWin { font-size: 12px; position: absolute; z-index: 99; border-top: 1px solid #bbb; border-left: 1px solid #bbb; border-right: 1px solid #bbb; top: 17px; width: 117px; } .red { color: #000; display: block; background: url(/resources/comments/graphics/sel_n_off.gif); border-bottom: 1px solid #e1e1e1; padding-left: 25px; padding-top: 2px; width: 92px; height: 18px; } .red:hover { color: #fff; background: url(/resources/comments/graphics/sel_n_on.gif); } .green { color: #000; display: block; background: url(/resources/comments/graphics/sel_y_off.gif); border-bottom: 1px solid #e1e1e1; padding-left: 25px; padding-top: 2px; width: 92px; height: 18px; } .green:hover { color: #fff; background: url(/resources/comments/graphics/sel_y_on.gif); } .loginWin { font-size: 12px; position: absolute; z-index: 99; top: 17px; left: 0px; width: 119px; height: 53px; background: url(/resources/comments/graphics/loginBox.gif); } .loginWin a { display: block; width: 119px; height: 53px; } .loginWin a:hover { } .votehistory { border: 1px solid #e5e5c4; width: 100px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffe; top: 18px; left: -6px; z-index: 99;} .... | |
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| | | With some grit, you're never too old to garden | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 7:13:38 PM by Blog57 Team | | One of the last things 97-year-old Gladys Randolph did earlier this month while saying farewell to independent living was take a long, lingering walk around her house in Le Sueur, Minn., where she pinched spent blooms from a few front-entry geraniums. Yet despite her new nursing home surroundings, my mother won't have to give up gardening. "You're never too old to do anything that's of interest to you," said Nancy Haas, activity director at Grandview Good Samaritan Center, located on the agricultural edge of this southern Minnesota community where my mother now resides. "You may have to make special adaptations so you can participate. That might mean giving advice to others, doing the digging yourself or simply admiring the flowers when they're grown." An estimated 1.5 million people live in the nation's 16,000-plus nursing homes, said Dr.... | |
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