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LATEST UPDATE 7/30/10~ 11:58 PM
For sale--Rent
See Bob Chapman's-The Mockingbird "Main information"page Click this "Bird"~~~>
Deer Creek
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WANTED !!! I will buy that old fly-rod that is cluttering up your closet !! Bob--203-494-9447 or 203-494-2597
NEW LISTING !!~~~~FOR SALE $99,000.00 *** FOR RENT $300 Per WEEK 422 Gary Player Dr., Davenport, Fl Call Frank or Barbara Grzymkowski NY # - 607-467-2891 Fl # fr Dec 1-Apr 15 863-424-2203
Eagles View section of Deer Creek Community. Beautiful Park Model, fully furnished. Frig w/ new ice maker, elec flat-top stove. Dryer, new washing machine, less than 1 yr old, new over-range microwave, 1 ½ yr old. Attached shed can accommodate a golf cart with room for storage. House sleeps 5: one BR w/ queen, large Florida room with 1 full size bed and 1 twin bed, 1 Bath, dining room, living room. Gorgeous views of driving range and 9th green from lovely shaded patio. Eye-catching landscaping. Two-car driveway with full portico. Auto sprinkler system w/ rain guard (key pad is in the shed).
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Friday July 30, 2010~ Point's Game Winners
Winner Russ Yeager ~~72~~+6~~$20 2nd Place Jim Denning~~~71~~+4~~~$15
New listing !!!~~~~ 2 bedroom~~ 1 1/2 Bath~~~ Carport~~~ Completely Furnished Home in Eagleview~~~ Deer Creek~~ New Rubber Roof 109 Payne Stewart 863-514-6952
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It's here for all of our Deer Creek friends to use !!
"Freedom of The Seas"
"Seven Night Western Carribean Cruise"
Port Canaveral-Haiti-Jamiaca-Georgetown-Grand Cayman-Cozumel- Port Canaveral
January 23--30, 2011
Contact Linda Palmer-- 863-424-5080
42769 Highway 27 # 87 Davenport, Fl. 33837
Sell or rent your items or real estate here !! Will run your one inch ad for 6 months for $20 !! Email your ad to russmary154b@aol.com
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Lot for Rent~~~On Golf Course~~ Lot 23 Mockingbird Ridge~~~~$600 per Month. Electricity Included.
863-424-9167 Cell~~616~540~8756
Mockingbird Ridge is a 55+ park
"NOTICE !!! P;ease let us know if there is a change needed in your ad OR if it has been sold or rented, Thank you !"
Click here to to send in your ad~~~> russmary154b@aol.com
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LATEST LISTING !!! FOR RENT~~~LOT 123 RACQUET LANE~~ MOCKINGBIRD RIDGE 2 Bedroom ~~2 Bath Available October 2010 thru April 2011 Phone 510-813-1402
***New on this Page***
NOTICE !! Further rate reductions effective May First !! Scroll DOWN !!
Inside--$859. Promenade $909 Oceanview $959 Balcony $1189
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A meeting for the US Hwy 27 Safety Task Force has been scheduled on July 20 from 6 – 8 pm at the Polk County Sheriff’s Office NE District Substation on Dunson Rd. in Davenport (see below for directions).
The two main items on the agenda will be a status update on the new roads the county is building in the area and an update from FDOT which will include information on state road projects in the 5-year Work Program as well as any additional information on outstanding items from the original action plan developed by this group.
Directions to PCSO NE District Substation:
The physical address is 1100 Dunson Road Davenport Florida 33896. Since the building is new it may not come up on some GPS units. If using a GPS unit, it is suggested that you choose the 1000 block of Dunson Rd. (if given that option).
Driving directions from I-4 are as follows:
Exit to Hwy 27 North
Travel approximately 1 mile on Hwy 27 north to Dunson Road (1st road after entrance to Cracker Barrel restaurant)
Turn Right onto Dunson Road
The Northeast District Substation is the first building on the left.
US Hwy 27 Safety Task Force
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Point's Game results with pictures and New Greenskeeper !!!
Canadian News ,TOO!!!
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Jan & Bob Martin~~ "Up Michigan way" ~~~~"We survived our reunion in "Land Between the Lakes" in western Kentucky. Great place, great people and temps in the 90's, with humidity in the same range. Good time was had by all. Another family reunion tomorrow, but much closer to home. This time it is Bob's family. What a busy summer. Doing a little golf and having a lot of fun. The best to all of our Deer Creek friends that are having medical problems, hope everyone is on the mend. Russ, thanks so much for keeping up with everyone and letting us know what is happening. Bob and Jan Martin"
ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL COOL MORNING FOR GOLF IN BEAUTIFUL FLORIDA WHERE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "OLD AGE AND TREACHERY OVERCOMES YOUTH AND SKILL" !!
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Yankees Owner Steinbrenner Dead at 80
Associated Press
George Steinbrenner
By RONALD BLUM
AP Sports Writer Published: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 at 9:16 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 at 11:57 a.m.
NEW YORK | George Steinbrenner, who rebuilt the New York Yankees into a sports empire with a mix of bluster and big bucks that polarized fans all across America, died Tuesday. He had just celebrated his 80th birthday July 4.
George Steinbrenner
Steinbrenner had a heart attack, was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital in Tampa., and died about 6:30 a.m, a person close to the owner told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the team had not disclosed those details.
His death was the second in three days to rock the Yankees. Bob Sheppard, the team's revered public address announcer from 1951-07, died Sunday at 99.
For more than 30 years, Steinbrenner lived up to his billing as “the Boss,” a nickname he earned and clearly enjoyed as he ruled with an iron fist. While he lived in Tampa he was a staple on the front pages of New York newspapers.
“He was an incredible and charitable man,” his family said in a statement. “He was a visionary and a giant in the world of sports. He took a great but struggling franchise and turned it into a champion again.”
Steinbrenner's mansion, on a leafy street in an older neighborhood of south Tampa, was quiet Tuesday morning. Private security guards milled around on the empty circular driveway inside the iron gates. A police officer took up a position outside the gates to turn away reporters and keep traffic moving along the narrow street. News vehicles lined the other side of the street.
Steinbrenner was known for feuds, clashing with Yankees great Yogi Berra and hiring manager Billy Martin five times while repeatedly fighting with him. But as his health declined, Steinbrenner let sons Hal and Hank run more of the family business.
Steinbrenner was in fragile health for years, resulting in fewer public appearances and pronouncements. Yet dressed in his trademark navy blue blazer and white turtleneck, he was the model of success: The Yankees won seven World Series championships, 11 American League pennants and 16 AL East titles after his reign began in 1973.
“Few people have had a bigger impact on New York over the past four decades than George Steinbrenner,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a statement. “George had a deep love for New York, and his steely determination to succeed combined with his deep respect and appreciation for talent and hard work made him a quintessential New Yorker.”
He appeared at the new Yankee Stadium just four times: for the 2009 opener, the first two games of last year's World Series and this year's homer opener, when captain Derek Jeter and manager Joe Girardi went to his suite and personally delivered his seventh World Series ring.
“He was very emotional,” said Hal Steinbrenner, his father's successor as managing general partner.
Till the end, Steinbrenner demanded championships. He barbed Joe Torre during the 2007 AL playoffs, then let the popular manager leave after another loss in the opening round. The team responded last year by winning another title.
Steinbrenner had fainted at a memorial service for NFL star Otto Graham in 2003, appeared weak in 2006 at the groundbreaking for the new Yankee Stadium and later became ill while watching his granddaughter in a college play.
In recent times, Steinbrenner let sons Hal and Hank run more of the family business. Still, the former Big Ten football coach took umbrage when others questioned his fitness.
“No, I did not have a stroke. I am not ill. I work out daily,” Steinbrenner said in 2006. “I'd like to see people who are saying that to come down here and do the workout that I do.”
When Steinbrenner headed a group that bought the team on Jan. 3, 1973, he promised absentee ownership. But it didn't turn out that way.
Steinbrenner not only clashed with Berra for more than a decade but paid to dig up dirt on Dave Winfield, deriding the future Hall of Famer as “Mr. May” in 1985 after poor performances. Berra's wife, Carmen, said Tuesday her husband was at a golf event in Pennsylvania and was expected to comment later in the day.
While he liked to appear stern, Steinbrenner could poke fun at himself. He hosted “Saturday Night Live,” clowned with Martin in a commercial and chuckled at his impersonation on “Seinfeld.”
He gave millions to charity, often with one stipulation, that no one be told who made the donation.
The Yankees paid off for him, too, with their value increasing more than 100-fold from the $8.7 million net price his group paid in January 1973. He freely spent his money, shelling out huge amounts for Jeter, Reggie Jackson, Alex Rodriguez, Torre and others in hopes of yet another title.
“Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing,” Steinbrenner was fond of saying. “Breathing first, winning next.”
All along, he envisioned himself as a true Yankee Doodle Dandy. It was fitting: George Michael Steinbrenner III was born on the Fourth of July, in 1930.
Added up, he joined the likes of Al Davis, Charlie O. Finley, Bill Veeck, George Halas, Jack Kent Cooke and Jerry Jones as the most recognized team owners in history.
Steinbrenner's sporting interests extended beyond baseball.
He was an assistant football coach at Northwestern and Purdue in the 1950s and was part of the group that bought the Cleveland Pipers of the American Basketball League in the 1960s.
He was a vice president of the U.S. Olympic Committee from 1989-96 and entered six horses in the Kentucky Derby, failing to win with Steve's Friend (1977), Eternal Prince (1985), Diligence (1996), Concerto (1997), Blue Burner (2002) and the 2005 favorite, Bellamy Road.
To many, though, the Yankees and Steinbrenner were synonymous.
His fans applauded his win-at-all-costs style. His detractors blamed him for spiraling salaries and wrecking baseball's competitive balance.
Steinbrenner never managed a game, as Ted Turner once did when he owned the Atlanta Braves, but he controlled everything else. When he thought the club's parking lot was too crowded, Steinbrenner stood on the pavement — albeit behind a van, out of sight — and had a guard personally check every driver's credential.
Steinbrenner made no apologies for bombast and behavior, even when it cost him dearly.
He served two long suspensions: He was banned for 2½ years for paying self-described gambler Howie Spira to dig up negative information about Winfield, and for 15 months following a guilty plea in federal court for conspiring to make illegal campaign contributions during the Watergate era.
“I haven't always done a good job, and I haven't always been successful,” Steinbrenner said in 2005. “But I know that I have tried.”
Steinbrenner negotiated a landmark $486 million, 12-year cable television contract with the Madison Square Garden Network in 1988 and launched the Yankees' own YES Network for the 2002 season.
All that cash - the Yankees later became the first team with a $200 million payroll - provoked anger and envy among other owners. After the 1982 season, Baltimore owner Edward Bennett Williams said Steinbrenner hoarded outfielders “like nuclear weapons.”
When Steinbrenner bought the Yankees, he insisted he was too busy with his family's shipbuilding business to take an active role in running the club. As his partners soon found out, that wasn't quite the case.
“There is nothing quite so limited as being a limited partner of George Steinbrenner's,” one of them, John McMullen, said later.
Overall, he changed managers nearly two dozen times and got rid of more than a dozen general managers. When a Yankees' public relations man went home to Ohio for the Christmas holiday, then returned in a hurry for a news conference to announce David Cone's re-signing, Steinbrenner fired him.
After Steinbrenner fired Berra as manager 16 games into the 1985 season, the Hall of Famer vowed he wouldn't go to back to Yankee Stadium for a game until Steinbrenner apologized 14 years later.
On one pressure-filled night in 1982, reliever Goose Gossage let loose and called Steinbrenner “the fat man.” And in 1978, Martin said of Jackson and Steinbrenner: “The two of them deserve each other — one's a born liar, the other's convicted.”
There was no denying the results, however.
When Steinbrenner bought the Yankees, they had gone eight seasons without finishing in first place, their longest drought since Babe Ruth & Co. won the team's first pennant in 1921.
Under Steinbrenner, the Yankees reached the World Series on 10 occasions and won three straight championships from 1998-2000. Those titles started a run in which the Yankees won the AL East crown every season through 2006.
“We've disagreed on more things than we agreed upon, but it never affected our personal relationship,” commissioner Bud Selig said in 2005. “George has been a very charismatic, controversial owner. But look, he did what he set out to do — he restored the New York Yankees franchise.”
Former AL president Gene Budig sometimes was on the wrong end of Steinbrenner's barbs. After he left office, Budig maintained a friendship with him and even advocated Steinbrenner getting into the Hall of Fame.
Steinbrenner liked to quote military figures and saw games as an extension of war. No surprise that in the tunnel leading from the Yankees' clubhouse to the field, he had a sign posted with a saying from Gen. Douglas MacArthur: “There is no substitute for victory.”
Steinbrenner also had a soft side.
He sometimes read about high school athletes who had been injured and sent them money to go to college. He paid for the medical school expenses of Ron Karnaugh after the swimmer's father died during the opening ceremony at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.
Steinbrenner kept older friends from his football days on the payroll, had a way of rehiring those he had once fired and liked to give second chances to people who had fallen from favor, such as Darryl Strawberry and Dwight Gooden.
“I'm really 95 percent Mr. Rogers,” Steinbrenner said as he approached his 75th birthday, “and only 5 percent Oscar the Grouch.”
Steinbrenner's beneficence extended beyond sports.
He pledged $1 million to a Florida orchestra in 1995 and mandated that $265,000 go to a pops series.
“I like Tchaikovsky as much as the next guy,” he said, “but in this area I think people would rather hear pops concerts, and good ones.”
While Steinbrenner grew up in the Cleveland area as a Yankees fan, his first passion was football. He fondly recalled watching the Browns on cold winter days and many believe the NFL's must-win-today mentality shaped how he approached all sports.
Steinbrenner was raised in a strict, no-nonsense household headed by his father, Henry.
The youngest of three children, Steinbrenner attended Culver Military Academy in Ohio. At Williams College, he was a track man and specialized in hurdles.
After that, he enlisted in the Air Force. Steinbrenner always was partial to the military and at Yankee Stadium, men and women in uniform were admitted free.
Following his discharge, he enrolled at Ohio State, pursuing a master's degree in physical education. It was his intention to go into coaching, but after working at a high school in Columbus and at Purdue and Northwestern, he turned to the business world.
Steinbrenner married Elizabeth Zieg in 1956 and they had four children.
In 1963, Steinbrenner purchased Kinsman Transit Co., a fleet of lake ore carriers, from his family and built a thriving company. Four years later, Steinbrenner and associates took over American Shipbuilding and revitalized the company, helping annual revenues triple.
It was in Cleveland that Steinbrenner met veteran baseball executive Gabe Paul and became involved with the group that bought the Yankees. With 13 partners, Steinbrenner purchased the team from CBS Inc.
He clearly liked the status it gave him.
“When you're a shipbuilder, nobody pays any attention to you,” he said. “But when you own the New York Yankees ... they do, and I love it.”
Steinbrenner quickly worked to reshape the team he loved as a boy. With that, the Bronx Zoo days began~~~~~~~~
Want to hear an "EX-MARINE'S VERSION of "The Star Spangled Banner ??
Jim and Bunny Hatcher~~Hi Russ, Guess you got my new address OK, thanks for answering me because I have to start a new address book and its easier to do it when you write me. Sure hope this works, I just checked my old address and have 20 junk mails on it....Hope BONNIE skips our park, keep us posted. Our best Bunny and Jim bunny1929@webtv.net
RUSS YEAGER AGE 84 ~~+6~~$20~~First Place
Jim Denning~~ AGE 80~~~~ +4 2nd Place $15
WANTED !!! Lincoln Wheat Pennies~~ Any Dates from 1900 to 1959 Lot 145 Tennis Lane, Mockingbird Ridge~~~ TA Simms~~~~~ tasimms@comcast.net
NEW AD !! Wanted "War items" ~~~~"Lincoln "Wheat" Pennies"~~See below
HOORAY !!! Carla and David Smith finally came out of "Hiding" !!! Here's their excuse" for "NO REPORTS" back to us !!~~"Just got back from jewelry school in Young Harris, GA and haven't had Internet in a couple of weeks. Truck had a blow out that tore the back panel off the truck and messed up the bumper so it had to go in the shop. We had to rent a car to drive to GA for the jewelry school and rent a hotel. You know you really take having your home with for granted. Then you really appreciate it when you are having to pack all of your stuff into a rental car and stay in a motel room for a week and eat take out all the time! David really enjoyed jewelry school and wants to go back next year. We just got back yesterday and turned in the rental car. We hope to pick the truck up tomorrow and get the new tires on and the front end alignment done. We seem to have terrible luck with tires in the month of July as that is when we have always had our blow-out/tear ups. We will have Internet for a few more weeks until we hit the road for craft shows in Sept. then you won't hear from me for awhile.Take Care, Carla and David" Good report, Carla~~BUT~~"How's David' "BIG TOE ?".
THE "BIGTOE" UPDATE !!
ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL ? READY FOR THE COWBOY'S ?
CHUCK HEISE~~ MEDALIST~~~69
TONI & PAUL BADZIK~~~~~~"We are leaving with our whole family to Hilton Head for 10 days. This has been our family tradition for years. Looking forward playing on the beach with our grandchildren. We all rent houses on the beach. I know it is going to be really hot. Hard to believe summer is almost over."
"Here's the Big Toe update. "The big toe is doing well it's all healed up. David played golf yesterday for the first time since the surgery. It was pretty tender but all in all it's coming along pretty well. His back is feeling better since he had the injections. Glad to know we have a greens keeper so there is someone to overseed the course this fall." Thanks, Carla !!
"Thanks to you we can keep up on all the news at Deer Creek. Joe and I are fine but I haven't been able to play golf since I had the meniscus tear surgery last Jan. I started riding a stationary bike and it has been making the muscles stonger and Joe made a thing for me to hit the golf ball and it just spins around so we don't have to go pick up all the balls I've been hitting. I'm hoping by the time we get to Fl. I will be able to play again. We had girls week at Mackinaw Island when the sail boats come in from Chicago to Mackinaw Island. We get tickets every year to go to their big party which is really fun. You only have bikes to ride there on the island or you can rent a horse and buggy. I made out fine riding the bike and we had a great time. We have two daughters that have retirement homes up there, one on the lake and the other on the golf course. Joe has been keeping busy with his big garden and we have had lots of string beans, the sweet corn is just coming and we have tons of cucumbers. Waiting for the melons. mmmm good. Again thanks Russ for all you do to keep us informed of all that goes on." Vera & Joe Wainright
This "Report from our "ACE REPORTER"~~ FRANCIE WILHELM~~~" I was speaking with Flo Senay last week and she told me she was moving into her new place, it is an assisted living home, she says it is like a 5 star hotel. She sounded excited about the move, the best thing she says is that all the meals are prepared for you. Unfortunately she fell and has bruised her leg badly and is needing the assistance of a walker temporarily . Hope to get Irene Kett and I to go up and see her soon as she is only 5 minutes down the road from us. Hope all of our friends on the sick side are mending and everyone else stay safe and enjoy this fabulous summer.xxx" ~~~~~~"Great to hear you like the new place, so well, Flo !! We wish you much happiness !!"
MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 2010 Main Pool !!
Meet at 3 PM to GIVE DOUG MEEK OUR BEST WISHES IN HIS NEW JOB AND THANK HIM FOR HIS DEDICATION AND HARD WORK !! Also meet Ryan Herren~~ Our new Greenskeeper
HAMBURGERS AND BRATS FURNISHED !! Please bring a dish to share and your own beverage !! Must Sign up in pro shop, Please
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MYSTERY ON OUR GREENS ???? OR SHOULD I SAY "BROWNS" ??
These "Mystery "Circles" in white chalk began appearing on a large number of our greens [ pictured here is Number 12] ~~~WHAT COULD THEY BE ?? Not able to find out after massive "Research" , so I can just "IMAGINE"? Is this the future size of our greens which have "shrunk " to 1/2 the size they were when I first purchased property in Deer Creek. SINCERELY HOPE THAT'S not the case !! If you know, please contact me !!
Would you like to hear an "EX-MARINE'S" version of our STAR SPANGLED BANNER ?? I think this is GREAT !!!!
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Like to see a GREAT HUMMINGBIRD STORY ?? A story of a guy who held the "Baby" in his hand while the "Mother" fed it !! Click the "Hummingbird" to see the video~~~~~~>
"THANKS CHAR ROOD FOR THIS GREAT VIDEO"
HUMMINGBIRD STORY
WHAT A SURPRISE RUSS RECEIVED WHEN, AT THE MAILBOX, HE FOUND A "KEY" TO THE PACKAGE BOX !! Not HIS BIRTHDAY~~ FATHER'S DAY ALREADY PASSED !! OPENING HE FINDS NOT JUST A GIFT FOR HIM, BUT ONE TO SHARE WITH ALL HIS DEER CREEK FRIENDS !! A BEAUTIFUL BOX OF "HOME GROWN" TOMATOES !!! DO NOT KNOW IF ADRIAN BROOKS GREW THESE~~~ MAYBE CLAIRE~~~~ MAYBE ADRIAN "STOLE THEM !! ~~~~WHO CARES ?? IT'S GREAT OF THEM TO SHARE THEM !! ~~~~THANKS ADRIAN AND CLAIRE !!!
SEE RUSS TODAY AND GET YOUR SHARE OF THE BEAUTIFUL TOMATOES~~COMPLIMENTS IF ADRIAN AND CLAIRE BROOKS !!
Medalist~~~~CHUCK HEISE~~~~~~~69
BEWARE !!! Beware of a new scam saying it is your bank that supposedly is very "Authenic" sounding. "You get a call telling you your debit or credit card has been "locked." To "Unlock it" press 1. Then you are asked to enter the number of the card." DON'T DO IT !! IT'S SCAM" to get your number !!
