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Prestonwood Notebook Busy November planned for members The White Gloves and Red Roses holiday dinner dance will be held Saturday, Nov. 22, featuring shrimp and scallop melange baked in filo with cardinal sauce; smoked duck and andouille gumbo: baby greens a la bouquetiere in an arrangement with montrachet cheese, roasted pecans and a raspberry vinaigrette; lemon/basil granita; blackened chicken and shrimp complimented with jambalaya and a mustard demi-glace; and grand mamier laced creme brulee. The cost is $150 per cou ple. At 7 p.m., sparkling wine and hors d’oeuvres will be served, followed by dinner and dancing to the ‘Casablanca’ Orchestra at 8. Formal dress or black tie is requested. Friday, Nov. 21, will be Prime Rib Night from 6:30 to 10 p.m. A chicken and seafood selection will also be offered. Cost is $16.95 for person, and $8.95 for a 6— 12 year old. Children under 6 are free.. The Thanksgiving Buffet will be offered in two seat- ings, at noon and 2 p.m. Cost is $16.95 per person and $9.95 for child 6-12. At the carving station will be steamship round of beef au jus witji silver dollar rolls, mustard and horseradish sauce. Salads will include pasta salad, Carolina Shrimp Salad, country-style potato salad, mesclun greens with fancy accoutrements, an international cheese display, mesquite grilled crudites, and an autumn fruit display. On the hot buffet will be honey-glazed Virginia ham, poached Atlantic salmon in dill sauce, roasted Tom turkey with giblet gravy and cranberry sauce, combread and sausage dressing, roasted acorn squash glazed with maple syrup, country biscuits with Oklahoma gravy, vegetables a la bouquetiere, candied yams, club baked rolls, corn bread and muffins. Also included will be New England Clam Chowder and pastries grandeur. Reservations are required. A wine tasting will be held Friday, Nov. 14 at 6:30 p.m. in the forma! bar. The theme will be a blind tasting of wines from around the world. A light meal of fruit, cheese and cocktails biscuits will be included. Cost is $19.97 per person. Cafe Pesto’s will be reopening beginning Tuesday, Nov. 4. Some of the menu items, priced from $7.95, will be traditional spaghetti and marinara sauce with meatballs or Italian sausage; linguini tossed in white clam sauce with white wine and fresh herbs; penne pasta tossed with herb roasted chicken breast and sun dried tomatoes in a pesto cream sauce; and fettuccini primavera with mushrooms, zucchini, yellow squash and peas in a light tomato broth with parmesan cheese. You can also cre ate your own pizza or order from a large selection of suggestions. Cafe Pesto’s also features a dessert bar. The new hours for the restaurant will be Tuesday through Thursday from 6 to 9 p.m., and Friday and Saturday from 6 to 10 p.m. A stress management lecture titled ‘The Hectic Holidays’ will be presented Monday, Nov, 17 at 7 p.m. in the Cafe Pesto by Bob Scarborough, a licensed psy chologist, Discover healthy methods for managing fam ily, food and fitness during the hectic holiday season. Forty-one members have now joined the King Kong Climbing Club, conquering 45 continuous minutes of stairclimbing. The club has now climbed for a com bined total of 6,897 floors. The club is looking for new recruits. Lift and Learn will be held in the Cybex room Tuesday mornings at 10 a.m. Staff will highlight the exercise of the week and entertain questions about resistance training. The fitness center will be open Thanksgiving Day for those who want to make a little more room for your hol iday feast. Hours will be from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., J. Bevenour and C. Wegmann were October winners for the Senior Men’s Golf Day event, held Oct. 8. Winners in the Ladies Club Championship, held Oct. 4 and 5 were Peg Brady, championship flight; Janie Moser, second flight; and Dixie Hockaday, third flight. The Men’s Golf Association officers for 1997 are President, Stan Smith; Vice President, Jay Kyne; secre tary Dan Steltz; Treasurer, Chuck Tickle. A new artificial turf tee area has been installed at the driving range. Members are asked to refrain from smoking while practicing on the artificial turf because it will melt and burn. With proper care, the turf will withstand rigorous use much better than grass, espe cially in the winter. November activities for the ladies include party bridge, duplicate bridge, the book club and a morning bowling league that began in September. The Ladies Day Bridge marathon will be played Nov, 19 at 9:30 a.m. If you would like to be on the list of subs, please call Janet Bosselman 460-8361 or Fran Luchansky 469-1796. A new ladies party bridge group will play on the third Wednesday of every month at 9 a.m. in the ladies card room. The bowling league meets every other Friday at AMF South Hills in Cary. For more information, cal! Angela Luchik 469-9282 or Mary Jane McCabe at 460-8060. The Ladies Book Club will have a dinner meeting on Thursday, Nov. 6 at 7:15 p.m. This month’s book is A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley. For information c confirm attendance, call Kate Vogl at 469-8068. Prestonwood Country Club is a private club, and attendance at all functions and activities is for mem bers and guests only. Wellington to host several events during November Wellington’s Books, will hold sev eral free events during November, On Nov. 11 at 7:30 p.m., Kris Yensen, will lead the Wellington’s Readers’ Circle, in a discussion of the book “Till We Have Faces: a myth retold by C.S, Lewis.” On Nov. 12 at 7:30 p.m., Carol Fantelli will read from her mystery Face Finder. On Nov. 13 at 7:30 p.m., Sally Day Burton, landscape designer will present a program on "Planting Promises of Spring” (bulbs in the southeast). On Nov. 18 at 7 p.m., fourth graders of Briarcliff Elementary School will give a poetry reading. On Nov. 20 at 7:30 p.m., Sally Day Burton, landscape designer, will lecture on “Winter Merging into Spring” (the many early bloomers we enjoy in the south east). Lower Your Mortgage Payment Before Your Next Bill Is Due. Introducing ReadyRefi- Before you submit your next mortgage payment, bring it down to size by refinancing with PNC Mortgage. With our ReadyRefi program, a new, lower mortgage payment may be ready for you injust 14 days from application—with savings that can add up to thousands of dollars over the life of your loan. 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The NIKE Carolina Classic will move to a permanent home at the Tournament Players Club at Wakefield Plantation in Raleigh after it is finished in 1999. “For the past four years, each of you has contributed so much in developing and staging the tourna ment,” said MaryMac Webb, tour nament director, in a letter to Prestonwood Country Club mem bers in October. “On a personal note, I feel so priv ileged to have not only met so many wonderful people, but also to have worked side by side with you from committee chairs and volunteers and staff. “We will miss being here at Prestonwood, but we also look for ward to holding the tournament at Raleigh Country Club, and then at the Tournament Players Club at Wakefield Plantation,” Ms. Webb YOGA FOX STRENGTH. FLEXIBILITY AND WELL-BEING OF MIND, BODY AND SPIRIT Joy Doherty 0 919-387-8727 CertifieiJ anid Experienced Yoga Instructor Conlinuous morning & evening classes, Beginner's Series & Sat. Worsfiop in MacGregor Village Join Any Time • Drop-ins Welcome. Call For Schedule. THE KING —Cary High School senior John Simpson (above) of Preston was crowned Homecoming King over the weekend. Paintless Dent Removal • Tree Nut Damage • Parking Lot Dents Hail damage erased from Roofs. Hoods. and Doors Without Paintwork! John Tracy’s PDR 6200 C. Daimler Way, Raleigh 919-859-5225 The AREA’S only locally owned and operated P.D.R. Business.” Message To The People Many of my Morrisville friends have asked my opinion on the upcoming election and I have been hesitant to conunent, but a statement recently by Commissioner Silver-Smith to a member of the planning board opens the door for my response. His conunent “As soon as this election is over, we’re going to change things. We’re going to fire the manager, the finance officer, the planner, and the clerk.” I’ve read the reports in the news and heard of the campaign strategies and am quite concerned. The Mayor has admitted there has been nothing but turmoil and disturbances for the last two years and the majority of the board clash with her and Silver-Smith. I don’t understand. These four commissioners are the same as when I served as Mayor and there was never ^y “Turmoil” ., During the Thirteen years I served we saw Morrisville through the greatest years of prosperity in it’s history and there was nothing but harmony. Ninety three percent of the issues brought before the Board were unanimous. Not all were favorable but they were together in their decisions because questions were handled in committees and not in public. The commissioners did their homework. Neighboring towns were envious of the prosperity. Have the Commissioners taken a complete turn around or is it the current leadership? Is everyone else wrong and the Mayor and the one who does her dirty work right? Commissioner Silver-Smith seems to know all the answers to all the problems. He knows how to solve eveiytliing. He is going to fire the whole staff. Hardly a week goes by that he isn’t in the managers office, yelling and tlueatening tlie manager, tlie Police Chief, llie Finance Officer, or other staff members. This is most unprofessional. Does he lliink this is how the oilier four should act? The Mayor says the first incident was the conflict of the office. If she wanted an office she should have one. I think the commissioners felt she would make it a THRONE. I never used the office. I have always felt that to sit behind a desk when talking to a citizen made him feel he was being put on a lower level. The citizen is the important one, not tlie Mayor, Mayor Broadwell wants a Kingdom and She the Queen. This is not England. I believe Gordon Cromwell is by far the best choice for Mayor. His leadership experience. His quiet “In-charge” style. His education and political background gives him a large edge. He can pull this “Nonprofessional, Non-cooperative” Family back to where it was two years ago. Bruce Newn^ is a fine Police Chief and is a capable leader, but I have never been in favor of a Town employee holding an elected position. Most citizens agree that tlie Police chief position is much too important to the town and should not be shared. Billy Sauls is by far the best choice for Commissioner compared to Faulkner. I hear she causes as much distraction and disturbances on the Planning Board as Silver-Smith does on the Town Board. If there is ‘Turmoil” now, put these two together. Commissioner Sauls has proven himself to be the citizens best friend. He is tough but he makes good things happen. I know little about Bill Case but he too is a town employee and I feel the same as I do about the Police Chief. Also he is “Hand Picked” by tlie Mayor. Phyllis Newnam has a proven record as She too has been a part of the team that made Morrisville a Town of envy. Mayor Broadwell cites the "Butterfly Garden” as a key accomplishment. Butterflies are beautiful but th^ don’t work hard to make a living and then have to sliare their income to pay taxes. With the present financial condition of tlie town, wouldn’t it be wonderful if the cost of water and sewer could be less expensive? Municipal law requires water and sewer costs be paid from it’s own revenue so the way Morrisville sources these services there is little that can be done, but the tax rate could be substantially lowered over a period of time and would supplement other costs. This is a win situation for evetyone. Just a few years ago the present commissioners fought a tough battle to save Morrisville. It could have and almost did became a part of Cary. If Broadwell, Faulkner, and Case are elected, Morrisville will be a part ofCaiy in less than two years. Caiy knows this. Ifthestaffis terminated, the Town will fall. If Evelyn Lumley is terminated, the citizens will loose a wealth of knowledge. She was Morrisville’s first employee. She was the manager, finance officer, clerk and the complete maintenance department. She prepared the yearly budget, paid all the bills, received the revenues, installed the water meters, re^ the meters, manually calculated the bills, and the tax bills. She ran tlie day to day operations. There is hardly one citizen that has not caUed Evelyn for help. She has no grievance and can retire anytime, but it wiU be abig loss to the town should this veiy professional staff’be terminated at once. My choice is Cromwell for Mayor. Sauls for Commissioner At Large. Newnam for Di^ct Respectfully Ernest Lumley Mayor (Retired) Paid for by Ernest Lumley
Morrisville and Preston Progress (Morrisville, N.C.)
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