Newsletter-Early-Week

Bobcat Football to hold benefit golf tournament

The Corning Bobcat Football team will hold the Grip It & Rip It Benefit Golf Tournament on July 19. This is a 4-man scramble. There will be a 50/50 raffle, paid flights and a $100 hole sponsor. The cost will be $350 if sponsoring a team and hole. The tournament will be held at the Victory Lake Golf Course with registration starting at 7 a.m. and a shotgun start at 8 a.m. For more information contact Trevor Barajas at 870-323-0580 or Farrell Shelton at 636-575-7390.

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Growing Corning Together to bring back Corning’s 4th of July celebrations

On May 22, a new Facebook page called “Corning 4th of July Celebration” was created by Growing Corning Together, where they posted a video announcing that the nonprofit was going to revive and host the annual 4th of July Homecoming Picnic. This announcement comes after the Corning Area Chamber of Commerce, who has held this event since 1942 published in the January 15 edition of the Clay County Courier that they would no longer be hosting the event citing the difficulty of finding volunteers and, “The rising costs of organizing such events, coupled with the challenges of people taking vacations, school schedules and the natural progression of our community aging, have made it increasingly difficult to sustain these traditions.”

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