From Left:ShadowGlen Golf Club legal representative and director at Coats Rose, Pamela Madere, ShadowGlen Golf Club partner, Jim Houstoun, SGC Owner Frank Hutchinson, Manor Mayor Jeff Turner,City Attorney Paige Saenz, City Manager Steve Shanks, City City Secretary Paulina Torres
Blackland Reporter Staff
On Wednesday April 18th at 2:40 pm and after 11 years, the City of Manor and the ShadowGlen Golf Club have officially settled out of court. The city will provide waste water effluent to ShadowGlen for irrigation and in return ShadowGlen has agreed to drop the lawsuit against the City of Manor.
After a frustrating process of negotiations and setbacks, Frank Hutchinson, the owner of the ShadowGlen Golf Club, and Mayor Jeff Turner in cooperation with Ross Cummings is with Blue Water project 130 L.P. have solidified an agreement that will keep the grass growing and green through the next year when a more sustainable water flow from the holding ponds will be completed.
In praise of the collaboration between ShadowGlen Golf Club, the City of Manor, and BlueWater, Mayor Jeff Turner noted, “Today is a very exciting day for the city of Manor and ShadowGlen Golf. It’s a huge day for our citizens here as well as the citizens of ShadowGlen Texas. This golf course just means the world to us. It’s like a shining star in an area that really needs one.”
Special thanks was extended to Blue Water Project 130 L.P. who graciously agreed to provide up to 300,000 gallons of water per day to ShadowGlen Golf Club to keep the course in playing conditions.
Frank Hutchinson is already the process of organizing another Veteran’s National Golf Tournament, which was first hosted by ShadowGlen in November 2010. Hutchinson looks forward to a second Veteran’s National at ShadowGlen Golf Club and projects “to get a date set in the next couple weeks” with an announcement to follow shortly thereafter. He wanted to be sure to note that “this is all being made possible from the new leadership of Manor. I think we are certainly very appreciative of that because without it we wouldn’t be open again.”
ShadowGlen business partner, Jim Houstoun said, “I would like to reiterate the thanks to Ross Cummings and BlueWater for giving us the interim water and the city for helping us now getting the lift station, a permitting process done so we can get the effluence taken and over to the holding ponds and irrigate the golf course. I’m excited and I’m ecstatic that the course was able to reopen in the time frame that we did and I’m grateful that we’ve got a golf course over there that has grass growing again and water to irrigate it with.”
ShadowGlen Golf Club also hosts the Ronald McDonald House Classic and Junior Golf Camps.
For more information see: http://www.shadowglengolf.com/
