8 • September 21, 2011 • Community News - St. Charles County
3rd Annual Ryan P. Martin Golf Tournament The 3rd Annual Ryan P. Martin Golf Tournament will be held at Pheasant Run Golf Course located at 3465 Hwy K in O’Fallon, MO on Saturday, September
24, 2011. There will be a small fee for each team of four. Drinks and food will be included with the entry fee. Registration begins at 12 p.m. with a shotgun start at 1 p.m. The event features 18 holes of golf with a cart, prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places, prizes for the two
longest drives, basket drawings, and a $15,000 hole-in-one contest. Hole sponsorships are available. This Golf Tournament was set up to honor Ryan P Martin and to spread the word about pneumococcal meningitis. For more information contact Courtney Ryan at 636.262.8869 or ryanpaulsmom@yahoo.com or call Bryan Martin at 636.262.5909.
Upcoming PALS Events • PALS night at IMO’S in Troy will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. on Monday, October 3. Dine in, carry out, or have dinner delivered to your door and help a good cause at the same time! A portion of the sales will be donated to PALS, a local animal shelter. • PALS will hold its annual Trivia Night on Saturday, October 29 at Raceway Parkway in Moscow Mills. Registration fee is a $120 for a team of eight players. This includes all event supplies, beer and set-ups. For more information about PALS, please visit www.palspets.com or call 636.338.1818.
Foreclosed Property Purchase On Thursday, September 8, the Lincoln County R-III School District officially purchased 125 acres of foreclosed property off Adelhardt Road. The land was purchased at auction for $298,000 and will allow the District to manage the projected student growth and complete the Long Range Plan. The R-III District’s Long Range Plan currently states the need for relocating the Early Childhood Education Center, recapturing Claude Brown as an elementary, and reducing the size of Troy Middle School by building a second middle school. The R-III District also recently purchased four acres of foreclosed property on South Main for the relocation of the Early Childhood Education Center. The District would then re-purpose the Claude Brown building into an elementary school, which will save taxpayers $12 million. The District’s Board of Education is considering a $3 million “no tax” increase bond issue in April 2012 to fund the project. Approximately 75 community and staff members (Long Range Planning Team) devised the plan two years ago during a six-month period after reviewing projected growth, current space issues, revenue and bonding capacity.