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FRONT NINE NEWS Page 1 Volume 14, Issue 1 March 2010 A quarterly publication of the Northwestern Pennsylvania Golf Course Superintendents Association, Inc. NWPGCSA 2010 Committees 2010 MEETING SCHEDULE Meetings/Education Sunday, January 31st Thursday, August 12th Rick Cutler/Wayne Rodgers Summertime Widows Party Informal Golf Meeting Venango Valley Inn & GC Venango Valley Inn & GC Membership Host: Durbin Loreno Host: Durbin Loreno Rob Goring Welfare Thursday, May 20th Monday, September 20th Dave Stull/Julie Powell Spring Business Meeting Formal Golf Meeting Formal Golf Meeting Joint w/Greater Pittsburgh Employment Country Meadows GC GCSA Garfield Prebor Venango, PA New Castle Country Club Finance Host: Rick Tucci Host: Joe Giardina John Morrison Thursday, June 10th Thursday, October 7th GCSAA/PGCSA Formal Golf Meeting Annual Meeting Joe Giardina/Garfield Prebor Fishing Tournament Formal Golf Meeting Grove City Country Club Lawrence Park Golf Club Scholarship/Research Dave Stull/Durbin Loreno Host: Jay Mathews Erie, PA Host: Jerry Rice Nominations/Ethics Thursday, July 8th Joe Giardina Informal Golf Meeting To learn about the difference Mt. Hope Golf Course between a formal and informal Guys Mills, PA golf meeting, see Page 7 and/or GCSAA LIAISONS the President’s Message. This is Host: Doug Smith something new for 2010. Certification Attester Joe Giardina Inside This Issue IF THERE IS A CHECK IN Education Programming THIS BOX, WE HAVE NOT Rick Cutler Chapter News: Presidents Message Page 3 RECEIVED YOUR 2010 Classifieds Page 6 DUES. First Tee Program NWP Board Report Page 7 Durbin Loreno PA News: Government Relations Allegheny College Conf. Page 9 Dave Stull FYI: Cancer Warning Page 10 DUES MUST BE RECEIVED BY Media/Public Relations APRIL 30TH TO BE LISTED IN Julie Powell National News: THE 2010 DIRECTORY. GIS Report Page 13 Page 2 A BIG THANK YOU To the following commercial members who donated toward our 2010 Officers & Directors Summertime Widows Party ********************************************************************* President Dominick “Joe” Giardina, CGCS $225 Level New Castle Country Club Bayer Environmental Science: Chris Farrell Syngenta: Jon Cuny Vice President Garfield Prebor Oakland Beach Golf Club $100 Level Secretary/Treasurer E. H. Griffith: Paul LaMarca, Jim Powell, John P. Morrison Tony Horvath Suncrest Golf Course Krigger & Company: Gail Fitzgerald, Joe Danhires Directors Walker Supply: Bill Walker, Bob Windsheimer David M. Stull, CGCS Weaver Golf & Turf Solutions: Randy Swanson The Kahkwa Club of Erie Sunburst Turf Solutions: Mike Nati, Jim Patterson Durbin Loreno Allegheny Lawn & Golf Products: Wayne Rodgers Venango Valley Inn & Golf Best Sand Company: Terry Gwinn Course John Deere Golf: Dan Olson Finch Services: Jeff Shoemaker Robert F. Goring, III Select Source: Mike Blatt Whispering Woods Golf Club Richard Cutler The Country Club of Meadville Commercial Director Wayne Rodgers DIRECTORY CHANGE Allegheny Lawn & Golf, Inc. Change Stephen Bailey from the superintendent at Corry Country Club to the superintendent at: Executive Secretary/ North Hills Municipal Golf Course 1450 North Center Street Newsletter Editor Corry, PA 16407 Julie Powell (814) 664-4481 (724) 421-7588 (Home address is the same) [email protected] Chapter News Page 3 this past winter. We had plenty of opportunities this year with events like: ♦ The Greater Pittsburgh GCSA sponsored seminars in January ♦ GCSAA’s Golf Industry Show (“The National”) held in San Diego in February ♦ The Western PA Turf Conference and Trade Show also held in February ♦ The USGA Green Section Regional Seminar held at Oakmont CC in March ♦ The Northwest PA Athletic Field, Turf, Golf, and Ornamentals Conference held at Allegheny College in March All of these venues offered pertinent information ranging from the latest rules affecting golf equipment PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE to the latest in weed control. Spring is finally here! I hope everyone is ready I like to attend winter conferences if for no other for the 2010 golf season. I always feel a slight bit of reason than to hear what is going on outside of my apprehension just at the start of a new season. You little world. You get to meet and talk to vendors that would think that after 25 years, I wouldn’t get those you didn’t make time for last summer, and they can butterflies in my stomach, but I still do. tell you about the latest tools that will save you time this summer. Some of the best information that I hope everyone had the chance to take advantage comes out of these conferences is from the of some of the educational meetings and conferences (Continued on page 4) Chapter News Page 4 (Continued from page 3) superintendents gathered in the hallways and around the lunch tables. Much of the talk this year was Our New Members about who had the most snow and how is all this snow going to affect my golf course. Now, you folks David Talon from up north might not get too excited about 30 Class A inches of snow, but to “us fellas” south of I-80, this 680 West Washington Street winter was a big deal! Bradford, PA 16701 (814) 362-6742 Our 2010 meeting schedule appears in this Pennhills Club newsletter with some changes from last year. We 146 Pennhills Drive have usually had light attendance at the July and Bradford, PA 16701 August meetings. Last year, our board of directors (814) 368-6159 eliminated the July meeting. This year, we discussed eliminating both the July and August meetings, however we felt that it may be unfair to our members Joseph Muzzo who look forward to playing golf to just eliminate the Class A July and August meetings. Instead, the directors Spouse: Barbara decided to try something new this year: informal 2203 5th Avenus golf meetings for July and August. Informal golf Lakewood, NY 14750 meetings will have NO MEETING AND NO (716) 763-4536 MEETING FEE. Informal golf meetings will simply KCS Turf Management dba be golf at a host golf course with members making Jackson Valley Golf Club tee times directly with that host golf course. The tee 6947 Jackson Run Road times will be set as a block of times so our members Warren, PA 16365 will be playing as a group. The time of day set aside Phone: (814) 688-8266 Fax: (814) 489-7802 for tee times will be determined by the host golf Email: [email protected] course. There will be no formal meal included with golf, but we encourage all the golfers to gather as a Toni Johnson group for fellowship and an informal meal after your Class SM round of golf. Carter Heights Golf Course 12220 Follett Road The May, June, September, and October meetings Corry, PA 16407 this year will not change from our regular formal (814) 739-2083 meeting format. I am very interested to see how Email: [email protected] these informal golf meetings are accepted and would love to hear from anyone who has an opinion on this John Parulski change. Class D Krigger and Company, Inc. Respectfully submitted, PO Box 1427 Dominic “Joe” Giardina, CGCS Gibsonia, PA 15044 New Castle Country Club Cell: (412) 480-6756 Fax: (724) 444-1027 Email: [email protected] Welcome to NWPGCSA! Chapter News Page 5 ditor’s Notes Our Heartfelt Sympathy to . E …Chuck Young and his family on the loss of his wife, Jean, in December 2009, following a long Dear NWPGCSA, battle with Alzheimer’s disease. Chuck is the superintendent at Hiland Golf Course in Butler, NO MARCH MEETING PA. From the first look at the front page of this newsletter, it’s obvious there are some changes to …the family and friends of Dr. Paul Heller, who our meeting schedule for 2010. passed away on January 19, 2010 following a long While an explanation of formal versus informal golf meetings can battle with cancer. Dr. Heller was a turfgrass be found several places in this professor at Penn State University specializing in newsletter, I felt I should address insects. All who knew him will miss the “bug the question of, “What happened doctor”. to our March meeting?” As an affiliated chapter of GCSAA, we are required to hold …Don Liprando and his family whose sister, two meetings a year: a business meeting and an annual meeting. Sharon Bohinc, is recovering from an aneurism The timing of those meetings is and ensuing car accident. Don is a sales completely up to us. Typically, representative for Harrell’s, and Sharon’s we’ve always held the business husband, Sam Bohinc, is a sales representative for meeting in March, and the annual Krigger & Company, Inc. meeting in October. For the past several years, that March business meeting has been held at Venango Valley Inn & Golf Course with Our Heartfelt Congratulations to . Durbin Loreno as our host. This year, Durbin said he’d like to try hosting a meeting where our … members could actually golf his Jon and Nicole Cuny who are expecting their first course. That’s why he agreed to child during the fall of 2010. Jon is a territory host our August meeting and give manager for Syngenta. the informal format a try. Now, instead of a March business meeting, we’re calling it a spring business meeting and moving it to May so golf can be a part of that meeting as well. Rick Tucci at Country Meadows GC has graciously agreed to host that meeting for us. See you there! Julie Powell Exec. Sec./Newsletter Ed. Chapter News Page 6 CHAPTER CLASSIFIEDS Golf Course For Sale Equipment For Sale Hartstown Golf Course, on Rt. 322, Hartstown, PA (5 Bernhard Rapid Facer RF 1000 Bedknife Front Facer miles east of Jamestown and 7 miles west of - Like new Conneaut Lake) is for sale for $475,000.