Club Update

A NOTE FROM YOUR CLUB MANAGER

This year seemed like it would never end and yet, the holiday season is upon us. This is a great time with family and friends coming together and celebrating the many blessings in life. With this in mind, the entire team at ONSC is committed to providing a safe environment for you, your families, and your guests during this great time of year.

We will still welcome you into the club to enjoy a turkey dinner on Thanksgiving Day, even though the set up will be different from years past (more details inside the newsletter). While our traditional “Member Cocktail Party” will also be different, we will still host a Member Holiday Dinner Party on Saturday, December 19. We look forward to offering you a memorable Seafood Night on New Year’s Eve to help ring in the New Year (and officially welcome the end of 2020).

Thank you for your continued support and understanding. We look forward to seeing each of you and your families around the lake this holiday season!

Brian Pabst

A NOTE FROM YOUR TRIAD MEMBERSHIP DIRECTOR

2020 will go down as a year unlike any other in history. Quarantine, homeschool, and new terms such as ‘social distancing’ and ‘contact tracing’ are now a part of our everyday vocabulary. And who else amongst us wishes they had a little (or a lot) of Zoom stock? Let’s add in all of the other newsworthy items such as social unrest, and oh yeah, how could I forget politics? In this crazy world we live in with new challenges faced on a daily basis, there are some positive consistencies to help us get through, including the relationships we have with our friends and families. A lot of those relationships began and continue to grow and evolve at the club.

As I write this, we are approaching Halloween. One of my fondest memories in my almost nine years with McConnell Golf was a random Facebook post one Halloween evening a few years back. My wife and I had just returned from walking our two young sons through the neighborhood for trick or treating. As my wife was putting the boys to bed, I pulled out my phone and began scrolling Facebook. There were dozens if not hundreds of photos of young ghouls and goblins and super heroes, posing with of all of the treats they had worked so hard for that evening. One photo struck me and really made me think. It was of newer Sedgefield members that I had signed up earlier that year, a few different families together, the kids all trick or treating together in the neighborhood. Knowing the history of these families and where they moved here from and where they lived, I knew that they did not know each other prior to joining the club. And here are their kids, on one of the ultimate kid-friendly holidays, making memories of a lifetime with new friends that they would have never met if not for the club. It is these intangibles that we cannot sell, we cannot market, nor can we put a value on. Club membership is so much more than golf, tennis, fitness, swimming and dining – it’s a culture, and more importantly it’s a family; the club family.

Our Old North State Club family has grown throughout 2020 as we have remained fortunate to be one of the few entities that could remain open. Of course we have had to shift some focuses and make some tough decisions on the fly sometimes (and move a LOT of tables and chairs!), but ‘our family’ is the reason we do so. We are here for you just as you are here for us.

The next time I write we will be into 2021 – let’s make the best of the what we have left of 2020 and enjoy the upcoming holiday season with friends and family.

I look forward to seeing you Facebook , Happy Holidays! around the club,

Chad Flowers

Thank you to Rusty Coleman for this picture! His son Cam landed this Largemouth Bass and released it back into the lake!