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Community Tournament to help military outreach groups Birdies for the Brave coming to Piper Glen Nov. 3 by Kim Gibson news@matthewsminthillweekly.com Piper Glen Country Club needs another 48 golfers to reach a full field for the 2010 Birdies for the Brave Tournament & Auction on Nov. 3. Each player who places a ball on the tee is guaranteed to hit a hole-in-one for injured or disabled veterans or the families of soldiers who gave their lives in service to their country. Birdies for the Brave is part of the Professional Golfers Association Tours Charities Inc. PGA Tour champion Phil Mickelson and his wife, Amy, organized the first tournament to help military personnel injured during combat, and now the organization has grown to support six Military Homefront groups and four newer partner organizations. Steve Kupcha is manager of public relations and community outreach for Birdies for the Brave. He’s also a former Navy Seal. He explained that 100 percent of the proceeds from Birdies’ tournaments go to the military outreach charities they support. From 2005 to the end of 2009, Birdies for the Brave has raised $5.2 million, including $1.75 million in 2009. After Birdies tournaments are completed this year across the country, the nonprofit’s governing board will divide the proceeds among the 10 outreach groups in January. Kupcha would still be in the military if he hadn’t gotten injured, he said. “That’s why I do this job,” he added. “I feel like I’m still part of the team.” Besides the tournaments, Birdies for the Brave hosts hospitality tents for the military at all PGA tournaments. Military personnel just need to show their ID, and they, along with their families, receive free admission, along with food and refreshments during the entire tournament. “It’s a full week of fun at a sporting event for them and their families,” Kupcha said. This is the sixth year south Charlotte’s Piper Glen has hosted the event, which was originally part of America Supports You, a U.S. Department of Defense initiative to enable citizens to communicate their support to the armed forces. Last year’s event raised about $43,000, accord- Birdies for the Brave supports six Military Homefront groups: • Homes For Our Troops, a nonprofit organization supported by PGA Tour player Phil Mickelson, that builds or adapts new homes designed for military men and women with serious injuries and disabilities. (www.homes forourtroops.org) • Special Operations Warrior Foundation, a nonprofit organization also supported by Mickelson, that provides free college scholarships and educational counseling to the children of Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps Special Operations killed while on duty. (www.specialops.org) • Naval Special Warfare Foundation, a nonprofit group supported by PGA Tour players Jerry Kelly, Frank Lickliter II and Vijay Singh that provides educational and motivational support, promotes health and welfare programs for the Naval Special Warfare community and perpetuates the history and heritage of the U.S. Naval Commandos. (www. nswfoundation.org) • Wounded Warrior Project, a nonprofit organization, supported by PGA Tour players Frank Lickliter II, Jason Gore, Boo Weekley and Nick Watney, that provides programs and services to meet the specialized needs of severely injured service men and women. (www. woundedwarriorproject.org) • Operation Homefront, a nonprofit organization, supported by PGA Tour player Corey Pavin, that provides emergency assistance and morale to deployed troops and their families and to wounded warriors when they return home. (www.operationhomefront.net) • United Through Reading, a nonprofit, supported by PGA Tour player Rory Sabbatini, that helps families separated by a soldier’s assignment remain bonded by reading aloud together through a DVD-sharing program. (www.unitedthroughreading.org) Birdies’ four partner organizations go through a yearlong review process by the U.S. Department of Defense before they qualify as Military Homefront groups. They are: • Military Warriors Support Foundation, a nonprofit, supported by PGA Tour player Ted Purdy, provides practical opportunities to those injured during military service. (www. militarywarriors.org) • Green Beret Foundation, a nonprofit organization that provides financial resources for health and welfare programs for wounded, ill or injured Special Forces soldiers, where no other assistance is available. The foundation also assists families of those soliders. (www. greenberetfoundation.org) • Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, a nonprofit, supported by PGA Tour player Rory Sabbatini, that serves the families of military personnel killed while on duty. (www.fallenheroesfund. org) • National Guard State Family Readiness Council, a nonprofit that supports a number of projects and programs providing assistance to deployed military personnel and their families. (www.nationalguardsfrc.org) ing to Club Administrator Colleen Carow. This year’s lead sponsor is Zimmer Carolinas. “This year we hope to raise $50,000,” she said. A full field would include 144 golfers, and this week, 96 had registered to play. Registration remains open online at Piper Glen’s website, www.tpcpiper glen.com. The event is open to the public, and (see Birdies on page 10) By Jove! I think I’ve found the perfect Assisted Living Community! 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4.854”x12.5” 1/2 pg Vertical for Carolina Weekly 10/19/10 www.matthewsminthillweekly.com Community Firm proposes shingle- recycling plant in Matthews by Frank DeLoache frank@matthewsminthillweekly.com A Monroe paving company wants to open the state’s third shingle recycling plant in Matthews. Two representatives of Boggs Paving told the Matthews town board Oct. 11 that the company wants to open the new operation at the former Hill Sand & Gravel site at 2168 Stevens Mill Road. The town board took no action Oct. 11. The Matthews Planning Board will consider the new industrial use at its Oct. 26 meeting, and the town board expects to discuss and vote on the proposal at its Nov. 8 meeting. Commissioners and some in the audience at the town board meeting peppered the paving company officials with questions about the shingle recycling process, and the question most often repeated concerned cancer-causing asbestos. Boggs will follow all environmental regulations and test shingles brought to the recycling center for asbestos, said Phil Hill, the paving company’s recycling coordinator. The company disposes of any shingles containing asbestos by burying them in an approved landfill following federal environmental guidelines, Hill said. Boggs treats the shingle-recycling operation as a “green business,” Hill said. Besides the shingles, company workers will separate any wood, paper and aluminum or other metals from each shipment and send those materials to other recycling facilities. Before the advent of shingle-recycling plants, discarded shingles were filling the area’s landfills, Hill and Boggs Recycling Manager Mike Batson said. Boggs already operates a shingle recycling facility at its headquarters at 1613 W. Roosevelt Blvd. in Monroe, Hill said during a public hearing. But the Matthews site would give the company more space for storing shingles and put it closer to Charlotte, the source of most of the shingles Boggs processes, Hill said. The only other shingle-recycling facility in the state operates in Greenville, N.C., and since the process is relatively new, the Matthews Board of Commissioners must add that category of business to the list of uses permitted in heavy industrial, or I-2, zoning, Planning Director Kathi Ingrish told commissioners. Hill Sand & Gravel, the Martin-Marietta site and the town’s own Public Works yard are the only three places in Matthews with the heavy-industrial zoning. Responding to questions, Hill and Mike Batson, Boggs’ recycling manager, assured the board that neighbors are not likely to know the plant is there or when it is operating. They said: • Boggs will only bring in a machine to grind shingles three or four times a year. With some adjustments, the same machine used to grind up tree limbs and wood can grind up shingles. The rest of the time, company workers will accept, test and separately store shipments of shingles. • The plant won’t take up much space. Boggs will install a paved pad where the grinding machine works when brought to the site. • The grinding will take place during normal daylight working hours, usually stopping by 6 p.m., Batson said. Besides the grinding, the engines from front-end loaders will provide the only other noise from the plant, Hill said after the meeting. • Just like its Monroe plant, Boggs will install misting devices around the grinding machine to capture any dust created during the grinding. Commissioner Nancy Moore asked the Boggs officials how they handle any water running off the site. Batson said the water used to capture the dust evaporates in the process, and no water will run off the site. Company employees sweep and dispose of the dust, Batson said. Because some homes and Team Church sit close to the Hill Sand & Gravel land, Commissioner Paul Bailey suggested extending the minimum buffer between adjacent property owners and the plant operations from 100 to 150 feet. Hill said that change was acceptable. After the meeting, Hill said, “Our company is extremely forward thinking” in recycling construction materials and also the use of “warm-mix asphalt” on its road projects. The warm-mix process applies asphalt to roads at about 100 degrees cooler than the normal hotasphalt operation, which traditionally heats the material to about 375 degrees, Hill said. The warm-mix process is better for Boggs’ employees and the environment, he said. “Boggs is really, really interested in being green,” Hill said. “…We’re hometown folks.” q Matthews-Mint Hill Weekly • Oct. 22-28, 2010 • Page 9
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