Village of Flat Rock enters into purchase agreement on the Highland Lake Golf Course

A fact sheet on the purchase agreement from the Village of Flat Rock:

HIGHLAND LAKE GOLF COURSE

PURCHASE AGREEMENT – contemplates an installment sale and leaseback

CONTRACT TERMS:

Purchaser: Village of Flat Rock, a political subdivision of the State of North Carolina

Seller: Course Doctors, Inc., a North Carolina corporation

Real property: all property, including land, buildings and other improvements, except for the practice range lights and the pole barn, which are to be removed from the premises, at no expense to the purchaser, no later than the end of the lease term

Purchase price: $1,150,000. Seller has elected an installment sale. Purchase price to be paid:

• (a) $525,000 cash at closing;
• (b) $625,000 balance to be evidenced by a non interest-bearing promissory note secured by a deed of trust on the property, to be paid:
• (i) $475,000 on January 15, 2014
• (ii) $150,000 on January 15, 2015
• (c) Prepayment at Seller’s option/demand upon 60-days’ prior written notice to Village

Earnest money: $50,000 – to Timothy R. Cosgrove, Attorney at Law

Closing attorneys: Prince, Youngblood & Massagee, PLLC

Closing: on or before June 30, 2013

Leaseback:

• Term: Settlement date thru November 15, 2013; (“Golf season” to end September 30; 45 days to vacate)
• Rent: $500 for the term, plus an amount equal to 1/12 of the annual county and village ad valorem taxes for each month or part of a month of the lease term after the month in which the closing occurs; payable at closing
• Maintenance, utilities, insurance, etc.: Tenant responsibility
• Hold harmless: Tenant to hold Landlord harmless against all liabilities, claims, damages, causes of action, etc., arising from action of the purchaser; Village to be named as an additional insured under Tenant’s insurance policies
• Income from golfing operations: Tenant

Possession: to Buyer on or before November 15, 2013

Environmental Phase 1 (Soil tests – pesticides, other contaminants): Purchaser

Title examination: Purchaser

Survey: Purchaser

April 29, 2013

National Park Week at Carl Sandburg

From the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site:

Fee Free Week at National Parks - April 22 - 26, 2013

Tour fees at Carl Sandburg Home and entrance fees at most national parks will be waived during National Park Week

April 27, 2013 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Spring Into the Park - A Family Fun Day at the Sandburg Home

The day will feature performances by Asheville poetry performers, Poetry Alive!, kid-friendly house tours and hands-on activity stations. Visitors will receive a schedule and activity guide when they arrive at the park. This festival is part of national Junior Ranger Day, an event to encourage youth to learn about America's National Parks and how they belong to them too! All programs including house tours are free. Young visitors will win awards for completing activities, too.

• Poetry Alive! performs at 10:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.
• Activity stations will be ongoing and include: Kid Care (how do Rangers care for the baby goats), Gardening Green (dig in the dirt and take home seeds to start your own), The Bees Knees (see a live hive and learn about bee pollination)
• House Tours will be offered free every 30-minutes

For more on National Park Week and activities in other near-by national parks, check out the National Park Week website.

What a difference a day makes. . .

A little more sunshine and a little rain. . .

Apple Blossom

Azalea

Azalea

Japanese Maple

Looks like a photo shoot for a Smith & Hawken catalog

Dogwood

Spring has sprung

One of my favorites (even if we're not exactly New York here).

Spring in the Bronx by Anon

Spring is sprung
Der grass is riz
I wonder where dem boidies is?

Der little boids is on der wing,
Ain't dat absoid?
Der little wings is on de boid!

And I'm sorry, but other than the dogwood tree, I have no idea what these plants are.

New kids at Carl Sandburg

Both the Times-News and the Hendersonville Lightning cover the new kids at Carl Sandburg. From the Times-News:

Two Toggenburg doe kids arrived at Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site on April 1.

The 3-week-old kids — Houyhnhnm Sweet Little Heart and Houyhnhnm Sweet Dancer, nicknamed Shamrock and Shadow — were purchased because they are direct descendants of Mrs. Sandburg’s award-winning Toggenburg doe, Jennifer II.

Each doe is a seventh-generation descendant from Jennifer II, who in 1960 produced 5,750 pounds of milk in 10 months, which averaged to be 2.5 gallons of milk each day. Her production record was the top all-breed record in the United States and the top Toggenburg record in the world.

The does were purchased from a herd owned by June Meacham in St. Johns, Ariz. The acquisition was made possible through support from the Friends of Carl Sandburg at Connemara....

Read it all, and also check out the Hendersonville Lightning:

... June Meacham's Toggenburg herd has been raised as a closed herd for 30 years. The connection with Lillian Sandburg's prize-winning Jennifer II, came when she acquired a Toggenburg herd from Helen Hunt, who had worked for many years directly with Mrs. Sandburg and had purchased goats from her when Carl Sandburg passed away in 1967. The park acquired its first Toggenburg goats from Helen Hunt when it reintroduced goats to the site in the early 1970's. While all the Connemara Farms goats retain a bloodline directly from Mrs. Sandburg's herd, it is exciting when such a close connection can be made and reintroduced to the park. Visitors are welcome to visit with Shamrock and Shadow this spring at the barn....

Read it all.