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Tryon Daily Bulletin
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Vol. 83 / No. 153
Tryon, N.C. 28782
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
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Polo may be coming soon to Polk Turf farm creates field; search on for polo teams Here’s a list of upcoming meetings and events for area nonprofit community and governmental organizations:
Today
Polk County Mobile Recycling Unit, Tuesdays, Ozone Drive and Hwy 176, Saluda, 7 a.m. to noon. Hospice of the Carolina Foothills daytime grief support group, first Tuesday each month, noon, Hospice Center behind St. Luke’s Hospital. For anyone grieving the death of a loved one. No registration; no charge. 828-894-7000, 800617-7132, sslater@hocf.org. Polk County Transportation Authority makes a regular trip to Hendersonville on the first and third Tuesday of each month. 894-8203. Carolina Foothills Chamber of Commerce, Business series Part 5, business planning; All businesses welcome to sign up. Tuesday, Sept. 7, 9am-noon. 828-859-6236. Hospice of the Carolina Foothills, We Care informal social group for women coping with loss. Open to newcomers, Tuesdays, 9 a.m. at TJ’s Cafe in Tryon. Shannon Slater, 828894-7000. The Meeting Place Senior Center Tuesday activities include ceramics, 9:30 a.m.; art (Continued on page 2)
The idea of the equestrian game of Polo coming to the Tryon horse community has never been as viable as it is today. After Libby Johnson of Tryon horse country commented in an article last spring that this equine community has everything but Polo, Dave Slater of Slater Turf Farm got an idea. As a turf farmer he knows how to grow turf on large fields. A little study and asking around brought him to the conclusion that his family had just the right ingredients to create a full sized polo field. “A polo field is enormous,” says Slater, “it is just shy of 10 acres in size. It needs to be big to accommodate the eight players and the umpire barreling along at a gallop trying to hit the polo ball through the goal post.” Slater has turned his bermudagrass sod field into a polo field at Caroland Farms in one of the
A view of the polo field area created at Slater Turf Farm in Hunting Country. A strip of harvested turf is visible on the right. (photo submitted)
farm’s many bottomland fields height for fast polo play or kept along the North Pacolet River just a little longer to slow down the ball. below the Old The next Iron Bridge. “It would now be order of busiIn fact, Slater says, there practical to have a game ness is to find the polo teams is enough land in our community." on this farm to -- Dave Slater and the umpire. Slater establish maybe a dozen full sized and practice has been asking around, speakpolo fields. Bermudagrass is ing with people who have polo an excellent playing surface for (Continued on page 8) polo. It can be mowed at a low
Saluda creates new historic committee Preserving city hall among top goals by Leah Justice
Following a public outcry from residents, the City of Saluda has formed a historic committee that plans to lead preservation efforts beginning with the restoration of city hall. The committee has established a survey to get input from residents regarding what they
want for the city’s future. The historic committee’s logo is “preserving Saluda’s past for its future,” and the committee includes Chair Lynn Cass, cochair Cindy Tuttle and members Martha Ashley, Jack Coates, Charlene Pace, Greaton Sellers and Gloria Testerman. The committee was formed following a meeting called for by Tuttle in April. Tuttle, a part-time resident who is a (Continued on page 6)
Serving Polk County and Upper Spartanburg and Greenville Counties
The historic committee plans to work on preserving city hall.