SCC Archery Range
Dear Editor,
After several failed attempts via email and face-to-face meetings, we have been unable to get the [CA] Board of Directors representative to rescind their order to close the [archery] range to motor vehicles. This includes handicap-tagged vehicles. They [the CA] included a walking trail on the same access road the archery club has been using for the last year and a half. There have been no complaints, incidents or accidents involving pedestrians. Access to the range is [now] by golf cart and pedestrian traffic only.
Parking barriers have been installed to enforce the “no motor vehicle” decision [with the caveat that emergency vehicles could remove the barriers when called for an emergency]. However, after discussing this with the SCC Emergency Squad, their response was that removing barriers is not part of their service. So in an emergency, we just might have a dead person on our hands because they can’t get treatment.
We’ve tried to reach a “center ground” by at least allowing the handicapped vehicles to use the road. They [the CA] said no…. Certainly not encouraging for our handicapped residents.
We all pay to have access to the various clubs that the CA has sanctioned, and the archery club was sanctioned; we’re in the directory.
The board and/or its representative has made it clear that another walking trail for the physically fit takes priority over access to the range by the physically handicapped.
The club is sorry for this inconvenience for our members, prospective members and the handicapped residents who just might want to visit the range.
Joe Mealey
Archery Club Vice President
Sun City Center
Dear Editor,
Golfers: Reminder to Sun City [Center] and Kings Point! Use your own golf courses to be guaranteed.
It is very common, and most written about from the Carolinass on down, when a community developer builds out, dispite [sic] the premium $$ for a golf course frontage lot, only the courses that can be financially sustained by the golfers themselves will remain. They are not part of the common clubhouse monthly fees for all.
This is a very common practice. It does not reflect on your community’s financial stability.
You will notice that many developing communities and living centers around us are offering rock bottom “come play with us” fees — to float them until their own community is fully capable.
This is a warning. I have been in SCC since the 1970s — Support your own golf course — one on each side of 674 to be guaranteed a golf course will be available to you, your family, renters. “Now you are wanted, now you are not” plays out no matter what other communities tell you. We are in the height of solicitation to play for less elsewhere — until you are not needed.
Leslie Pitzer
Kings Point
