Friday, June 19, 2009
Golfing community chips in with help
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JoAnne Poindexter
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During the more than 30 years that Sam Brisbon tended the locker room at Hunting Hills Country Club, he became friendly with golfers not only at the club but also throughout the area.
He lived in a cabin on the golf course and "everyone loved him," said club member Mike Warner, who organized a fundraiser to assist Brisbon with medical bills.
In his mid-70s, Brisbon became ill about three years ago, retired and returned to his family and home in Pinehurst, N.C.
During his career, he made weekly commutes to the Roanoke County club, arriving on Tuesdays or Wednesdays to work and returning home to his wife and children in Pinehurst on Sunday evenings.
He returned to the country club in May for a golf tournament fundraiser.
"We missed him terribly," Warner said.
The tournament raised $14,000 to help Brisbon with medical expenses.
"We just had an outpouring of the golf community," Warner said, adding that Brisbon "was quite moved."
"We had more people who wanted to play golf than could," Warner said of the turnout.
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Will Miller, a member of Boy Scout Troop 8, recently attained the rank of Eagle Scout, the highest award a Scout can achieve.
Miller, who is a Distinguished Scholar graduate of Patrick Henry High School, received his award during a Court of Honor ceremony at Raleigh Court United Methodist Church.
For his Eagle Scout project, Miller renovated a playground area used by preschoolers with developmental delays at his former elementary school, Grandin Court.
Miller also is a Vigil Honor member in the Order of the Arrow, Tutelo Lodge 161, and a third-year summer staff member at Camp Ottari, on the Blue Ridge Scout Reservation in Pulaski County.
Miller's parents are Les and Jennifer Miller. Tim McConchie was his Scoutmaster, and Jim Nicholas was his assistant Scoutmaster.
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The Achievement Center, a school for children with learning disabilities and attention deficit disorder, has received a $1,000 grant from Katherine Nelson Fishburn Foundation Fund of the Foundation for Roanoke Valley.
The grant will support the center's scholarship initiative campaign.
