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Proceeds to benefit the Ridgewood YMCA’s Good Works Programs

The Ridgewood YMCA’s 37th Annual Golf Outing will take place on Monday, September 20th at the Knickerbocker Country Club in Tenafly, New Jersey. All money raised during the event supports the Ridgewood YMCA’s Good Works Programs.

Through its Good Works Programs, the Ridgewood Y meets community needs and serves everyone, regardless of ability to pay. Examples of the Ridgewood Y’s Good Works Programs include Rainbows, providing peer support for children who have suffered a painful family loss and Living Strong, Living Well, a strength and conditioning program for cancer patients and survivors.

“The Ridgewood Y Annual Golf Outing is a great day for all” says Chris Brazill, Golf Outing Committee Chairman. “Participants have the opportunity to play golf, see old friends, make new ones, bid on terrific prizes and do something good for the community, all at the same time”.

The event will conclude with the annual Park Avenue BMW Putt-Off Contest. Says Brazill, “For most of the golfers, the competition ends on their 18th hole. But for the eleven golfers who have qualified for the Park Avenue BMW Putt-Off, the excitement and tension have only just begun. The grand prize of a free lease on a new BMW makes for a fun filled, knee knocking putting competition”.

For more information or to sign up for the Golf Outing, please call Jen Batelli at the Ridgewood YMCA, (201) 444-5600, ext. 320.

About the Y
The Y is one of the nation’s leading nonprofits strengthening communities through youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. Across the U.S., 2,687 Ys engage 21 million men, women and children – regardless of age, income or background – to nurture the potential of children and teens, improve the nation’s health and well-being, and provide opportunities to give back and support neighbors. Anchored in more than 10,000 communities, the Y has the long-standing relationships and physical presence not just to promise, but to deliver, lasting personal and social change.

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Devereux New Jersey is proud to be the beneficiary of an upcoming Golf Outing at the Pitman Course in South Jersey 

• Thursday, September 20th.
• The cost is $100.00 and includes registration, cart and golf fees, lunch and prizes.
• Swing for a chance to win a car with a hole-in-one. Not up to par on your golf game? Skip the course and join us for a guest lunch available for $25/person.
• Hole sponsorships available.
• Registration available at http://bit.ly/njgolf or http://www.devereux.org/site/Calendar/1492925703?view=Detail&id=11201

Devereux serves over 400 children, adolescents, and adults with special needs in New Jersey.

Stockton will buy four-star resort: Stockton and the seller, LaSalle Hotels LLC, announced an agreement of sale last week, but did not disclose the sale price. The 670-acre property is appraised at $29 million though both parties are hoping for a reduction. LaSalle pays Galloway Township approximately $400,000 a year in property taxes. The purchase makes Stockton — a college of 8,000 students and 1,200 faculty and staff in Atlantic County — one of Galloway’s largest landholders with more than 2,000 acres in its portfolio.

N.J. golf courses see 10.7 percent rise in business, bucking national decline: Golf Datatech LLC, a market researcher for the sport, estimates that overall golf rounds played nationally are down 3 percent to date this year. But in New Jersey, all private and public courses combined to see a 10.7 percent in June 2010 from the previous June. For the year, it’s up 5.7 percent.

Branchburg Family Golf Center will host a Ping Demo Day on Thursday August 19th from 4pm – 7pm. This is the first day of the Ping launch of their new K-15 line of clubs. Come be custom fit by Ping Representatives. Registration is not required but suggested. Please contact Branchburg Family Golf Center for more details at www.Branchburggolf.net or 908-541-0465.

NorthJersey.com/Brian Gaffney wins first New Jersey Open golf title in playoff: Brian Gaffney, so many times in the hunt, finally won the New Jersey Open. Gaffney, the head pro at Rumson Country Club, won the 90th State Open on Friday in a three-hole aggregate playoff over Garden State newcomer Bobby Gage of Forsgate. The soft-spoken and popular Gaffney, a two-time runner-up, won the playoff, 11-12, by going birdie, par, bogey at Spring Brook CC and collected the winner’s check for $15,000.

The Arc of Bergen and Passaic is holding its annual golf classic at Preakness Hills Country Club, 1050 Ratzer Road, Wayne on Monday, October 4th. Join us for a day of golfing with registration and lunch at 11:00, shotgun start at 12:30, followed by cocktails at 5:30 and dinner at 6:30.

Tickets of $350 include a day of golfing with caddies and carts, greens fees, luncheon, cocktail reception, and dinner. Proceeds from the event will benefit services and programs for children and adults with intellectual and other developmental disabilities such as autism, epilepsy and cerebral palsy.

For registration and sponsorship opportunities, please call Marianne Balazs at 201- 343- 0322 ext 2225 or email golf@arcbp.com.

From pressofAtlanticCity.com – Family-run golf courses a labor of love: Andrea Truitt co-owns Pomona Golf Course, along with her sister, Pamela Grenda, and cousin, Bruce Ritchie. Almost every day for the last 40 years, all three of them have arrived at the charming, nine-hole layout before the sun rises and seldom leave before it sets. For them, the Galloway Township course is not a business as much as a passion — a way of preserving a 70-year-old legacy established by an black entrepreneur in the 1940s and continued by Andrea’s parents.

• Event Co-chairs: Katie Hughes Redmond and Susan Tibbetts
• Bedens Brook Club, Monday, Oct. 4th, 2010
• Driving Range and Putting Greens Open at 10:30 am
• Lunch will be from 11:30am – 12:30pm
• Shotgun Scramble Tee-Off Time 12:30pm
• Awards Reception 5:00pm (Includes Dinner and Silent Auction)

About the Family Guidance Center:

Annually, we improve the lives and prospects of more than 5,000 clients and their families with our accessible, affordable array of professional services: mental health and psychiatric care, substance abuse and addictions treatment, employee assistance, intensive in-home family therapy, assistance for seniors with their Medicare benefits, and schooling for local students with special education needs. Our Consumer Credit Counseling Service has helped 2,500 Central New Jersey families survive the economic crisis through our debt management program and housing and foreclosure prevention counseling.

Or visit us on the web at: www.fgccorp.org