Prestonwood Notebook
Food, love reign at Prestonwood Club
A wine-tasting and silent wine auction will be held
Saturday, Feb. 27 at 4 p.m,
Steve Adams, wine representative for Mims
Distributing will present members with the taste of
Robert Mondavi and Beringer. There will be a selec
tion of international cheeses and seasonal fruit and
berries to accompany the tasting.
The tasting will be held during the auction so mem
bers will know the quality of wines they might be
bidding for.
A Mardi Gras Mambo will be held Saturday, Feb,
21 from 7:30 to 11:30 p.m.
Chef Michael Chuong will present an array of New
Orleans cuisine so authentic you will think you are
standing on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter,
including: spicy boiled crawfish, corn on the cob,
boiled new potatoes, hot sausage, gumbo ya-ya,
blackened catfish with meuniere, jaraba-laya, shrimp
creole, red beans and rice, crawfish etouffe, black
ened breast of chicken with creole mustard, bayou
boudin sausage, array of andouille sausage, tasso,
hogs head cheese, alligator tail, shrimp stuffed mirli-
tons, couchon du lait, salad buffet, and desserts
including king cake, bread pudding with rum sauce,
pralines, beignets, Mardi Gras Preston pie and pecan
pie.
Live Dixie Land Music will be played, and prizes
given to the best costume. The Mardi Gras event will
cost $32 per person.
The Valentines dinner featuring dancing to the
Casablanca Orchestra has been sold out. The menu
includes baked oysters Rockefeller, lobster bisque, a
bundle of baby green laced with lavender vinai-grette,
granny smith apple sorbet, Chateaubriand, and a
chocolate tart with grand mamier sabayon and golden
raspberries.
Coming in AprU will be a Good Friday Seafood
Buffet, and an Easter Buffet. Details are forth-coming
in the March newsletter.
A 50s Sock Hop will be held Friday, Feb. 20 from 7
to 9:30 p.m. for kids 5 to 10 years of age. Burgers,
fries and malteds will be served through-out the
evening and the club's own jukebox will blast that
old-fashioned rock and roll. Cost is $7 per person;
registration is limited. Call Joy at 467-2566 for reser
vations; call Carol at 467-9601 with questions.
The first annual Mother/Son dinner will be May 6
from 7 to 9 p.m. Moms and grandmoms will be hon
ored guests for a gourmet dinner prepared and served
by their sons. The boys, ages 5 to 10 will serve as
chefs, servers, hosts, strolling violinists, pianists, and
after-dinner entertainers.
This summer, weeklong sports camps will be held
from 9«ta.ooon Monday th^gh Friday-Each, day-: -.«
will feature a golf lesson, a tenhis lesson 'and a swim
ming lesson.
Coming in April will be an Easter Egg Hunt and on
April 5, the ever-popular Kid's Club Fashion Show &
Tea will feature apparel from Talbots and the golf and
tennis shops. Moms will also model some of the
clothing.
Bill Murphy has been selected Fitness Member of
the Month. At age 56, Bill continues to main-tain a
high level of fitness as he enters retirement. Bill par
ticipated in three marathons throughout his military
career. Over the years, however, high impact activi
ties and a few military-affiliated inju-ries have forced
Bill to rely solely on low-impact methods of strenu
ous exercise. Following two hip replacements. Bill
has modified his exercise regi-men to stairclimbing,
biking, weight training and lots of stretching. Even
though the method of ac-tivity may differ, the end
result is the same. Carry on. Soldier.
Lift and Learn is held Tuesdays at 10 a.m. and 7
p.m. in the Cybex room. The fitness team will high
light the muscle of the week and entertain questions
regarding resistance training.
The Start Smart program, a 12-week condition-ing
program, is designed to improve body compo-sition,
joint range of motion, muscle strength and tone, aero
bic capacity and sport specific condi-tioning. It will
feature fitness evaluations, six per-sonal training ses
sions with a certified trainer, two nutritional educa
tion sessions and a structured exercise program spe
cific to personal goals. The last day to register for this
new program is Feb. 28. Cost is $200.
A lecture on "Training for your First 5K" will be
presented by Mike Barker, fitness director, on
Monday, Feb. 23 at 7 p.m. in the Cafe Pesto. Dis
cover safe training guidelines that will condition you
to achieving success with your first race.
Senior men's Golf Day is every Wednesday at 8:30
a.m. Winners for the month of January are Brian
Ninian, Jan. 7; Gene Guido and Ralph Marion, Jan.
14.
New officers for the men’s golf association for 1998
are President, Jay Kyne; Vice President, Dan Steltz;
Secretary, Chuck Tickle; and Treasurer, Dan Griffin.
Please call the tennis shop to check on the con
dition of the tennis courts before playing. During the
colder months, the courts tend to freeze. The courts
are open all year, but it is important to make reserva
tions.
Spring Bridge Lessons will be offered Tuesday
evenings beginning in February and concluding early
in May. Standard American bidding, the fundamentals
of declarer play and basic defensive methods will be
covered. For more information, call Dave Cree at
467-1536,
The Ladies Day Bridge Marathon is held the last
Wednesday of each month at 9:30 a.m. Call Janet
Basselman 460-8631 or Fran Luchasnsky at 469-1796
to get on the "sub list."
The A.M. Ladies Party Bridge Group plays on the
third Wednesday of each month at 9 a.m. in the ladies
card room. All levels of play are wel-comed. Call
Sheila Morris at 467-6844 for infor-mation.
The Evening Couples Party Bridge Group plays the
first Wednesday of each month at 7 p.m. The next
■bTatcStis”F^. 3. For more information, call Dot
Boulia at 380-0629.
The Co-Ed Evening Marathon Duplicate Bridge
Club meets the second Tuesday of each month. This
month the meeting will be Feb. 10 at 7:15 p.m. in the
private dining room.
Ladies Duplicate Bridge meets the second
Wednesday of every month.
Prestonwood Country Club is a private club and
attendance at all junctions and activities is for mem
bers and their guests only.
Science
the subject
at ‘go-round’
Morrisville Elementary School
was turned into a science laboratory
Jan. 22 as students moved from
room to room learning at various
science exhibits.
The Science-Go-Round for tracks
1 and 2 was bigger and better than
ever this year, with a Starlab tent in
the multipurpose room where chil
dren could climb into a dark area
and see stars, and a presentation on
light from Berry-Barnett, Inc., a
local science education center.
During the course of the day, stu
dents had the opportunity to attend
nine sessions, including Micro-
Worlds, by Judy Topkins, where
they looked through microscopes;
m^ng tracks by Bonnie Schneider,
where they studied animal tracks;
the Starlab, sponsored by the N.C.
Museum of Life & Science in
Durham; “Meet the Animals,”
sponsored by the N.C, Museum of
Natural Science in Raleigh;
Origami Geometry by Glenn
McNitt, the resident origami expert;
Eye Spy by Leslie Cooper; Light
Magic, by Berry-Barnett; Body
Basics, by Carolyn Gentry and
Donna Balint; and Enviroscape, by
Beth Chesson, where students gath
ered around a large model of an
environment to discuss taking care
of the earth.
Volunteer parents helped out
through the day in each area.
After a successful day, coordina
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breath, before they prepare another
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Numbers don’t lie: Cary residents
should tone down the attitude
By Roxanne Powers
A few weeks ago, when I read an
article published in The News and
Observer written by Kyle York
Spencer, about “Mini Morrisville,”
I somehow felt vindicated.
Ms. Spencer pointed out that
Morrisville boasts one of the
largest per capita tax bases in the
state at a whopping $228,000 per
resident compared to Cary’s
$70,000 per resident.
Now, don’t get me wrong, as our
first home in North Carolina, Cary
will always hold a special place in
my heart. But too many Cary resi
dents value people or areas by the
size of their almighty dollar, and
there are some egos in Cary that
could use some up-to-date down
sizing. And I’m not just referring to
David Letterman’s listing of Cary
High as the “Third snobbiest school
in the country!”
(My daughter relates with a chuck
le that when she and her fellow
Cary High classmates go to games
in Garner, some of the kids chant,
“Gar-ner play-ers ail re-lat-ed!,”
and that Gamer chants back in
answer, “Ca-ry play-ers ov-er rat
ed!”)
Consider these encounters I expe
rienced in 1997. 1) While shopping
in Cary one day, I waited patiently
for the shop owner to make a
phone call. When she did, I
approached her with a question.
She shushed me, and proceeded to
dial another number! 2) Never one
to dress for much more than com
fort, I entered one Cary store, only
to have the shopkeeper insinuate
that 1 couldn’t afford her merchan
dise. 3) At Cary Lazy Days, the
wife of one craftsman literally
scoffed when I attempted to give
her information about a craft show
sponsored by the Ruritans in
Morrisville. When I defended
Morrisville by pointing out that it
couldn’t be too much of a “hick”
town, due to its proximity to
Preston and Research Triangle
Park, she scoffed again, and said,
“Well, it's nice to know it has
something going for it!”
Like so many others in our area,
we are part of a no-man’s land. A
more-or-less Morrisville, but kinda-
Cary resident, (We have a
Morrisville mailing address, but
can’t vote in Morrisville, though
we do have to meet Cary’s building
codes because we are Cary ETJ.
Some of our kids go to school in
Apex, some in Cary, though we
can’t get Cary water. See what I
mean?)
Anyway, in spite of its entertaining
politics. I’ve often thought that
“poor” little Morrisville got a bum
rap. I guess it’s true that when it
comes to the two towns, my loyal
ties are as split as their claims to
my land. There is one thing I am
irrefutably not duplicitous about:
For those Cary residents (or anyone
else) who esteem themselves over
others because of the size of their
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