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Page 5 Presidential Perspective by Erin McManus, Superintendent Medina Golf and Country Club The summer weather conditions and Mother has come and gone Nature can change plans everyday. and we are looking I tend to look at the golf course forward to the great weather station, Accuweather app, golf weather we get Weather bug App, MyRadar and in the fall. Everything seems to be a countless other resources for weather little early this year as far as ducks information every day. We have grouping up, acorns dropping and hosted Ian Leonard’s Bad Pants leaves turning. I am not sure exactly Open for the past couple of years what this will mean for us this fall and talking with him, the technology and winter, but I am looking forward they have and the models they can to a great fall season. A lot of courses look at are getting better each year. depend on college and high school Just taking the current weather in students for summer labor and with account, how do the hurricanes and schools back in session, staffing will the wildfires affect our “typical” be a challenge going into the fall. I weather patterns? I am seeing more remember the days where it seemed storms rolling from south to north to really slow down on the course than I remember. Watching nature after school started and maintenance for typical weather cues can be an practices were reflective of that. indication of what is to come. What Over the past decade or so it seems does the early acorn drop and ducks the membership want tournament grouping mean for the weather? I conditions right up to the point the think we are in for a cooler fall with snow flies, and even a little past the and early winter. You can quote me first snow thinking we will have great on that but don’t worry, I have been weather into Thanksgiving. wrong before. Our jobs depend daily on Here at Medina, we have had Page 6 Page 6 a challenging summer with the lined up for next spring so we are change of ownership and being able already getting started on keeping the to take on a bunch of new operating crew we have ready for next year. procedures and protocols. The one thing I can say in the whole challenge We have had some great weather of this is that my staff has stayed over the past couple of weeks to get positive and has continued to do their our fall aerification done. If you have job on a daily basis without question. good weather and a good group of I am very thankful to have a couple employees you can get a lot done on assistants that continue to “take care the course. We are looking forward of business” to great fall and without winter in the questioning hunting field too. the process. I My daughter is only had one interested in wing High School shooting this fall age employee and with the new working on puppy ready to the crew this go, this should be summer so a pretty good fall we will not hunting season. I be losing really like to guide a bunch of pheasant hunting labor as Something new at MG&CC, Superintendent Erin mostly because I school McManus shows off a bee colony. Sweet! like watching the starts. We will have a solid hourly dogs work the field and you don’t get staff going into fall and be able to to see the dog work as much when cover greens in November without you also have to shoot the birds they question. We are going to continue to flush. It will be just like guiding with walk mow greens and keep a focus on my daughter Annabel shooting the some of the detail work that members birds for me while I watch Lea work expect. We have some great projects the mark. It should be a great fall! Page 7 Page 7 In Bounds by Jack MacKenzie, CGCS With several hours later, brought only an amazing temporary relief as I was told that suddenness, a specialist wouldn’t be available the black until the following day to address eruption my concerns. caused my bowels to loosen as though filled Eyesight is taken for granted, to bursting with hot, wet tissue just like hearing, breathing, and paper. On a rainy Sunday moring pretty much all bodily functions I had been sanding the top of a that occur without conscious effort. wood project when my left eye was Despite a mild assurance from the impacted by an discharge of jet on-call physician that the malady black liquid, swirling crazyly inside would be caught in time, my mind my eyeball, in a vivid and mobile raced with fear. The rampant Rorschach ink blot. This immediate emotion caused me to pause and impact upon my vision sent a wave consider a story about this heart- of fear through my body. stopping emotion that I had heard several times in preparation for my Genetically predisposed on wilderness adventures. Beyond both sides of my family to retinal recollecting the other associated detachment, I was overcome by happy memories, the tale is always the thought of losing the vision in a reality check and the wisdom one of my eyes, something that helped as I was preoccupied with had happened to my mother two my suddenly upset world. decades ago. A frenzy of phone calls and messages left at the In a small Inuit village north optician’s closed office, eventually, of the Arctic Circle, a ten year old Page 8 Page 8 Reelmaster 3555 Performance you expect, in a size you didn’t Tel. 763-592-5600 4830 Azelia Ave. N Suite 100 Fax:Page 763-592-5700 9 Brooklyn Center, MN 55429 www.mtidistributing.comPage 9 boy was thinking about his first hearing and soft in voice, he had caribou hunting trip with his father always been comforted with her and several of the older boys and stories of the wilderness and the their fathers. His inaugural hunt lessons they offered. had filled him with concerns of fulfilling his father’s expectations “Grandmother,” he asked, and not disappointing the village as “tomorrow I leave on my first hunt their very survival was based upon with the men and I am terrified that the procurement of meat. Upon I will not do well and embarrass reaching maturity, everyone in the myself, and more importantly, our village was responsible to help. family. I cannot disappoint the village. My fear has me wondering He had watched the older boys if maybe I am not ready to hunt and assault targets with arrows and support ourpeople. What message had, in his own mind, become very can you offer to make my fear good at emulating their success. dissapear?” He could skin small game and was handy with hook and line. But In the quiet of the tent, he the boy was worried because the barely made out her raspy whisper, first hunt would set the stage for “Inside each of us, the old, the his life ahead. He was fearful of young, boys and girls, men and disappointing his father and letting women, inside our stomachs and the village down.