Start celebrating Father's Day on Saturday morning at Oak Hlls with 9:00 coffee, 10:00 tee time, great lunch, cash prizes and appropriate beverages courtesy Scheppers and Fechtel. Home well in advance of your own evening festivities and/or 5:00 Mass.
Three person scramble. $80.00 All proceeds go to lour ocal Kiwanis Club Projects for local kids.
Call Bryan 635-3084 or Oak Hills 645-6532 to reserve your slot.
A little known fact is that Anthony LaRussa, Jr. received a law degree from Florida State University in 1978. It's not likely that these three years of pressure and indigestion made Tony a better ball player, but I will wager that it helped him become a great manager.
I've seen fine lawyers when the walls seem to be crashing down around them. It might be in a courtroom or a business negotiation or a political slugfest. They have a rare talent to rise above the immediate pressure, stay focused on the big picture, and move forward strategically. There is a resolve in their eyes and a firmness in their chin.
I saw that look recently in the dugouts in Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Texas and St. Louis.
He probably would have made a fine lawyer. But he certainly put his education to good use elsewhere -- and the game of baseball is better for it.
The east coast media is not always kind to us in Flyover Country. But Thomas Boswell's editorial in the Washington Post was nice. Read the entire article, but here's the punch line:
What moves us so much about a two-month trek like the one the Cards just finished is not that it is literally “impossible.” Of course, it’s not. What grabs us is that it borders on the unbelievable, it presses against the wall of wish fulfillment, in a way that we recognize from our own lives . . .
. . . they are slightly flawed athletes banding together to surpass themselves.
Friend / Councilman Dave Griffith put this one out for public consumption.
The Ping Golf for Wounded Veterans Program is worth reading about.
Go to the "Thank You Ping" message.
The lockout might be over. Football referees, uncertain of whether there would be season at all, have to get back into shape. This Budweiser TV Ad provides an inside look at how these guys get mentally prepared.
Mayor Struemph has enthusiastically endorsed the 6th Annual Mayor's Cup Golf Tournament scheduled for Friday July 15 @ Oak Hills. Great lunch at noon. Beverages via Scheppers, Fechtel & Vogel. Cash prizes. $80.00 per player -- two person scramble. All proceeds to local Kiwanis youth programs.
Parks & Rec has done a great job at Jefferson City's very own municipal golf course. Come out and have some fun with present and past Hizzoners. Deadline is approaching. Sign up HERE.
That's not a typo. Our Kiwanis Club is raising money to start a Court Appointed Special Advocates ("CASA") program in the Cole County Circuit Court -- but it's all about having fun evening with some talented atheletes.
Thursday evening the Harlem Ambassadors will play a group of locals at Trinity Lutheran gym. Their motto is "Not your grandfather's basketball show."
Tickets are $5 for kids and $7.50 for adults. We'll have a $1,000.00 half court contest at halftime. Grab a ticket at Samuel's Tuxedos uptown or call Jim Kellerman at 635-7524. And watch for more news about CASA in coming months.
Why, when we reach 16 or so, do we abandon the fun things we enjoyed in earlier years? Tree swings, sleigh riding, slug-bugs, belching contests -- to name a few.
Some are wise enough to hang on to a few fun things as adulthood eventually takes over. Chris Neff is an architect by profession, but he has this "other thing" going.
Tuesday afternoon Downtown Book & Toy will host the Duncan Yo-Yo Heritage Tour. Chris is an accomplished performer. He started with Yo-Yo's but he has migrated to tops. This year he took second in the Nationals in Chico, California and second in the World Competition in Orlando. He told me about this little corner of his life and then he showed me The Stuff.
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