There will be no more curling at Glen Meadows Golf and Country Club and the future of golf there is uncertain.
Members of the golf club have been told that their memberships will end by April, as the course becomes a B次元官网网址減ay as you playB次元官网网址� facility under its new owner, Hung Hua Hu of Vancouver.
Golf Pro Robin Hutchinson says no new golf club memberships will be sold and all current ones expire at the end of March. He said the change came about rather suddenly and even the staff at Glen Meadows havenB次元官网网址檛 been told a lot by the new owner.
The PNR has placed a call to the spokesperson for the owner, Dustin Miller.
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Hutchinson said the curling season ends March 16 as normal, yet curlers have all but abandoned the facility already, some teams and groups moving on to other area curling clubs.
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He described the staffing situation at Glen Meadows as B次元官网网址渟keleton at bestB次元官网网址� and the club is currently without a grounds superintendent. Hutchinson said family members of the former owners, the Criddle family, have been helping keep the ice in and the greens cut, but he wasnB次元官网网址檛 sure how long that would last.
There is a lot of uncertainty around the future of Glen Meadows since the sale became final on December 12, 2017. Hutchinson said heB次元官网网址檚 heard all the rumours about bitcoin farms (the locker room at the clubhouse was cleared out, possibly for computers, but it hasnB次元官网网址檛 happened yet) and cannabis cultivation. ItB次元官网网址檚 all speculation at this point, he said.
Reaction, he continued, has been surprise, disappointment and anger from some members. The new owners had initially told people they were going to improve the golf course. Those plans appear to have changed.
Glen Meadows has been around for 53 years, after its founding in 1965 by the Criddle family. It was valued at $5.17 million by BC Assessments as of July 1, 2017 and had been listed for sale at $6.7 million in 2016.
In 2014, the Criddle family had that would have seen the golf course closed and turned to 30 large residential lots and handed 100 acres to the municipality as agricultural land. The District rejected that proposal.
In listing the golf club for sale, previous owner Percy Criddle stated in 2016 that the B次元官网网址済olf industry has presented significant challenges in recent years and the time has come for new ownership with fresh ideas.B次元官网网址�
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