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Prince Rupert Golf Club



  2014

December 24 -- Golf Club back in the black
December 5 -- Prince Rupert Golf Course to elect officials this weekend NCR

October 22-- Prosperous season lends hope to golf course

September 17-- Two tournaments make for an exciting weekend at Prince Rupert Golf Course
September 9-- Holkestad takes women's club championship


July 30-- Bazansky celebrates hole-in-one
July 30-- Prince Rupert Golf Course getting casual
July 23-- Rampage and fans open their hearts and wallets
July 4-- Golf Tourney season in full swing on the North Coast  NCR
July 2-- Junior Golf receives a boost

June 24-- Bazansky takes Vic Marion Seniors Open title
June 17-- Venman defend championship at Prince Rupert Men's Jubilee
June 10-- Prince Rupert golfers take Ladies Jubilee titles

May 27-- Repeat winners take Charity Golf Scramble
May 14-- Horcoffs, Millers win Prince Rupert Mr. and Mrs. Tournament
May 7-- Prince Rupert Golf Club hosting training program for female beginners

April 23-- Prince Rupert Golf Club to tackle trees and bridges
April 16-- Prince Rupert Golf Club preparing for year of transition

2013

December 18-- Prince Rupert Golf Club in financial trouble
December 18-- Prince Rupert Golf Club should play-through slow moving city group
October 22-- Prince Rupert's Lisa Walters joining the BC Golf Hall of Fame
September 18-- Results from Prince Rupert's Duffers tournament
August 21-- Junior golf on the decline as Prince Rupert Junior Jubilee cancelled
July 5-- Rampage ready to scramble for twin causes NCR
June 26-- Rampage scramble to help honour teammate and help Wildlife Shelter
June 19-- Venman battles back to win Prince Rupert Jubilee
June 12-- Aina Pettersen wins Prince Rupert Ladies Jubilee
April 3-- Warm weather brings Prince Rupert golfers to the links

2012

September 14-- Golf Society set to tee off at council NCR
September 5-- City thinking about selling golf course to pay for EMS building
August 14-- Sundin wins Prince Rupert Junior Jubilee title
July 12-- Prince Rupert Port Authority donates $20,500 to improve local golf course
July 12-- Prince Rupert Rampage Charity Golf Scramble raises over $7,300 for wildlife shelter
July 7-- 3rd Rampage Charity Golf Scramble a big success despite rain
July 1-- Rupert's own Edd Boudreau places third at PGA Championship of Canada
May 30-- Prince Rupert golf season now well underway

Golf Course Society set to tee off at council

Perhaps as mad as a golfer slicing left into the woods off the number two tee at the Prince Rupert Centennial Golf Course, the Prince Rupert Golf Society is trying to make some sense of the latest developments percolating over their future, with word that the City is giving some thought to selling off the city's public golf course.

The Society which is currently operating the Prince Rupert Golf Course seemingly has been caught by surprise by Mayor Jack Mussallem's trial balloon of selling off the Golf Course to private interests.

Members of the Golf Society seem more than a little annoyed that the Mayor introduced his cash generating idea without the courtesy of a discussion with the group that has been running the place over the last few years.

Mayor Mussallem introduced the golf course option as one of a couple of potential revenue proposals for the city, dropping them into the end of the most recent city council session  (see the last five minutes of the September 4 council broadcast).

The last five minutes of council sessions of late have been where the Mayor introduces whatever has been simmering on his stove top since the last session, in July he expressed concern over the transfer of NWCC's electrical program to Terrace, though in that instance he was perhaps about six months late in trying to effect change and seemed a bit behind the curve and out of touch about developments at the local college.

Not so with the Golf Course, or the Airport Ferry, the other item he offered up for discussion as a possible way to reduce some of the public anger over tax issues in the city.

Couching the proposed sales of assets as a way to reduce the tax burden on the tax payers of the city could be the Mayor's one ace in the discussion. The Golf Course is one location that perhaps tax payers would be willing to see sent off to private interests, allowing the marketplace to set the bar for members green fees and maintenance issues at the course itself, without the need to dip into city revenues.

The Golf Course proposal would seem to have the Golf Society members on red alert, suspicious that the Mayor may already have some kind of arrangement on the fast track, at least that's the impression one gets from quotes that Terry Sawka, the Golf Society President, made to the Northern View.

Sawka offered up the thought that he suspected there may have been some discussion on the file already, perhaps in one of the closed council sessions that have taken place over recent sessions.

To learn more about the proposal and put forward their thoughts on the issue, the Golf Society is seeking to appear before council on October 9th where they will ask council to explain their intentions towards the golf course.

All in all it should make for a pretty interesting session of Council, which will be streamed live through the city's website.