Northwest Golf Courses Go Green

Golf is getting greener. Across the United States, but especially in the Pacific Northwest and particularly in the Portland area, golf courses are adopting environmentally sustainable practices. They are using far less water, fertilizer and weed-killer than before and employing grass varieties that can thrive without meticulous care.

It's become par for the course for golf superintendents to leave dead trees for habitat, encourage native pollinators and maintain wildlife corridors. The courses themselves, often veined with creeks and wetlands, have taken on new roles as community protectors by receiving, storing and controlling storm water. Water hazards -- where wayward shots go to drown -- double as homes for ducks, geese, turtles and frogs.

Salmon-Safe is developing its own checklist of measurable standards for golf courses. Meeting them would allow a course to boast that it's been certified as a place where the course management practices don't harm fish.

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Hood Canal Featured in the NY Times!http://http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/05/01/travel/escapes/01shellfish.html?hpw

Open House at Union Square Buildings & Hood Canal Communications!

Time: September 16, 2009 from 3pm to 7pm
Location: Union Square Buildings
Street: 320 E. Dalby Rd. Union
Website: www.hcc.net
Phone: 360-898-2481

Union Square & Hood Canal Communications will be having an open house on the 16th of September!

Come and enjoy wine, appetizers, and desserts while entering for raffles for prizes such as Seahawks tickets and massage services and learning about the businesses in your community!

Hood Canal Communications will be showcasing the businesses at the Union Square buildings:

-Union Square Deli
-Dogwood Construction
-Falcon Financial
-The Salon at Union Square
-Stylist Nancy Kizziar
-Masseuse & Esthetician Cheryl Eklund
-Union Square Fitness
-Open Office Spaces in Union Square Buildings

Please come and enjoy an evening out in Union from 3:00-7:00 p.m.on September 16th!!!

CITY ACCEPTING TOURISM APPLICATIONS

The City of Shelton is now accepting applications for tourism funding. The City currently collects a four percent tax on Lodging that is to be used for either tourism promotion or tourism-related facilities.

Tourism promotion is defined as activities designed to increase tourism, including but not limited to advertising, publicizing, or otherwise distributing information for the purpose of attracting and welcoming tourists; developing strategies to expand tourism; operating tourism promotion agencies; and funding marketing of special events and festivals designed to attract tourists.

Tourism-related facilities are real or tangible personal property used to support tourism, performing arts, or to accommodate tourist activities. Applications will be accepted until September 4. Once all applications are received, they will be forwarded to the City of Shelton Tourism Advisory Committee for review.

The Tourism Committee will then make a recommendation to the City Commission for the 2010 Budget. Applications are available on the City's web site atwww.ci.shelton.wa.us or at the Shelton Civic Center. For more information, contact Dolly Baker at 432-5109.

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