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Morrisvilte and Preston Progress, Thursday, March 27,1997 • 5
Prestonwood Notebook
MEETING THE MEDIA-Mike Solarte of Fox 22
interviews professional golfer Mark Carnevale
during a media day held March 18 at the
Prestonwood Country Club.
Nike leader swings through Prestonwood
By Mary Beth Phillips
Mark Carnevale, 1992 PGA
Rookie of the Year and the golfer
who has so far dominated the 1997
Nike Tour, says "It’s amazing what
happens when you commit."
Carnevale flew to Prestonwood
Country Club on March 18 for
"Media Day" to promote the 1997
Nike Carolina Classic which will
beheld May 8-11.
After much success early on,
Carnevale had a bad year during
1995 and began to divide his time
between the PGA and the Nike
tcHirs.
"It was too easy, I had gotten
complacent," Carnevale said. After
he won only $17,485 last year,
Camevale's father, Ben, who was a
longtime basketball coach at the
Naval Academy and led the Caro
lina Tarheels to their first NCAA
victory in 1946, told him, "Either
give up or commit."
Carnevale chose the latter and has
come in first or second on the first
three games of the 1997 Nike Tour.
If a player wins three games, he is
automatically moved to the PGA
tour. Carnevale won the Inland
Empire Open in Moreno Valley,
Calif., on Feb. 20-23 and came in
second at the Lakeland Classic in
Lakeland Fla. on Jan. 30-Feb. 2 and
the Monterrey Open in Garzia Gar
cia, Mexico on March 13-16. He
has already won $78,088 in three
games.
Promoters for the Carolina Clas
sic joked with Carnevale that he
would not be back for the match in
May.
Even if he doesn’t come in first
for three games, he will probably
not be in the Nike Tour next year.
The top 15 players on the Nike
Tour vrill earn PGA Tour cards for
the next year.
So far this season, he has to his
credit 69 birdies and two eagles.
Carnevale said it’s all a matter of
attitude.
"I have more experience now. I
can deal with things better. Four
years ago...I would go ballistic if I
made a stupid bogey."
Now, "I’m at ease, comfortable
with what’s going on."
He has been aggressive, he said.
"I decided to be at every tourna
ment mentally. So far it has hap-
Morrisvilte Fire Department
hires assistant fire chief
By Mary Beth Phillips
A deputy fire chief will start work
for the Morrisville Fire Department
on April 7, which will lessen the
workload on Fire Chief Tony
Chiolakis, who has been doing all
of the fire in.speciions for the grow
ing town.
Mike Chambers, who served as
deputy fire marshal with the Wake
County Department of Public
Safety for the last six and a half
years, will also be responsible for
the department’s fire code and pub
lic fire education programs and
serve as the department’s safely of
ficer, Chiotakis said.
He will be available to developers
to answer t|uesiions about fne code
requirements, and will take respon
sibility for fire investigations both
within the Morrisville fire district
and coordinating fire investigations
with other agencies.
Chambers’ primary
responsibilities for Wake County
were in ccxle enforcement, specifi
cally witl5 tlie Wake County public
school system, Chiotakis said. He
was instrumental in developing a
comprehensive fire prevention in
spection program for the school
system.
Chambers also served as a fire
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pened every week. Last year, I was
mentally at three tournaments.
"If I inake a bogie. I’ll come back
and birdie the next hole," he said.
Playing the Nike Tour is almost
as tough as the PGA, he added.
"The players are hungry. They
want it more," he said. "You've got
to shoot five or six under every
round; you’ve got to go for the pin;
you can’t be playing it safe."
The Nike Tour has more
camaraderie than the PGA, he
added. "Those guys are going out
to dinner with agents," he said. On
the Nike Tour, "TTiere’s more kid
ding, more guys doing things to
gether."
He also enjoys the fact that the
crowd can come onto the fairway
with the golfers. "There’s an in
timacy that the crowd and the
players have...the player gets a bet
ter feeling about the people behind
him."
Carnevale always takes a day off
after a tournament. "It’s a mistake
to play every day," he said. "You
still have to go on with life; you
need a certain time that’s not in
volved with golf."
Carnevale says, "In the last few
years, I had lost my p^sion for •
golf.... [Now] Golf is fun again."
‘Barefoot,’ buffet a highlight for April menu
Broadway comes to Prestonwood April 12.
That’s the date for a Dinner Theater presentation of
Neil Simon’s "Barefoot in the Park," a comedy which
bad a Broadway run of 1,532 performances.
A buffet dinner will be served starting at 6:30 p.m.,
aixl the play will begin at 8 p.m.
Featured on the menu will be roasted sliced tender
loin of beef, baked chicken roulade and baked filet of
salmon. There also will be assorted salads, vegetables
and desserts.
Simon’s play, which will be performed by the Al
pha Omega Players, centers around newlyweds who
tty to set up housekeeping in an apartment. The situa
tion is complicated by the bride’s mother and a
friendly neighbor.
The cover price for the buffet and play is $25. This'
does not include cocktails. Members can make reser
vations by calling the front desk at 467-2566. Seating
will be limited to 120 people.
The Kids Club at Prestonwood will sponsor its
third annual Fashion Show and Tea on Sunday, April
13.
Kids Club members and their mothers will be
modeling fashions from Talbotts and the golf and
tennis shops. The fashion show will start at 4 p.m.
and will be followed by the serving of assorted teas,
punch and pastries.
The cost is $10 for adults. There will be no admis
sion charge for children under 12. Reservations can
be made by calling 467-2566.
In other Kids Club news, summer camps will be
held at Prestonwood the weeks of July 7-11 and July
21-25.
Daily activities, running from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., will
include arts and crafts, games, swimming and lunch.
Golf and tennis lessons and a cooking class will be
among the special activities offered.
The first camp will be open to children ages 5-7
and the second camp to children 8-10. Registration
starts April 1, and the fee will be $150 per child.
To register, contact Patty at 467-9279. For more in
formation, call Carol at 467-9601.
The club has a full sports calendar in April.
Registration for the Piranhas swim team will take
place April 19 from 9 a.m. to noon at the breezeway
by the tennis shop. All swimmers must be ac-
CMnpanied by a parent
The swim team will have a new suit for the 1997
season, and orders will be taken during registration.
All levels of swimmers are welcome.
Tennis clinics for juniors will begin April 7. In
struction will be on Mondays and Wednesdays and
will be offered separately for middle and high school
students, elementary school students and youngsters
ages 4-6.
Three women’s clinics are also on the tennis sched
ule. They start April 8 for advanced players, April 9
for intermediate players and April 10 for beginners.
A tennis round robin and cookout will take place
Saturday, April 5. Play starts at 9 a.m., followed by a
noon cookout and an exhibition match.
In men’s golf activity, match play competition is set
for Saturday and Sunday, April 26 and 27. Also, new
offices have been named for 1997. They are Stan
Smith, president; Jay Kyne, vice president; Dan
Steltz, secretary; and Chuck Tickle, treasurer.
Recent senior men’s golf day winners included Bud
Harris, J.T. Davis, John Stephenson and Fred Bickus.
The next senior men’s interclub match will be April
22 at North Ridge Country Club.
Ladies 18-hole play will begin the season on Tues
day, April 1. The annual "Fun Mixer" wiD be Satur
day, AjhtI 20.
A junior golf social has been set for April 13 at 3
p.m. to discuss the 1997 junior golf program. Alljun-
iw golf members and their parents are invited to at
tend. To sign up, call the golf shop at 467-9601.
Prestonwood Country Club is a private club,
and attendance at all functions and activities is for
members and guests only.
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"With the growth in town, plus
the anticipated growth with the
connection to Cary, fire code enfor
cement and inspections becomes
even more important," Chiotakis
said.
The connection with Cary’s water
and sewer system is expected to be
cwnplete this summer, which will
allow developments which have
been waiting for water and sewer to
begin budding.
Fire inspections are needed not
only for new buildings. The depart
ment inspects each of the town’s
commercial buildings once a year
on an ongoing basis. Residential
buddings are done on request.
"The town has reached a point
where we need to have an individu
al that focuses in on this type of
service to the community,"
Chiotakis said. "It's part of the
normal growth and development of
the department. It’s the next posi
tion that was needed."
Chambers was hired in pay grade
25, which ranges from $32,579 to
$48,134. Chiotakis declined to give
his salary, but said he was in the
mid-range of that pay grade.
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