Pine Valley Advocate
The Pine Valley Golf Centre located on HWY 16 West on 2450 Range Road in Prince George,has become an icon that offers entry level golfing at an affordable price. The mere thought of turning this recreational piece of Prince George history into a big box entity makes me feel that the greater good is not being served. As local coordinator of Special Olympics in Prince George, I had the distinct pleasure of introducing golf as one of the many sports we offer. Special Olympics sports programs change attitudes and teach sensitivity and understanding of intellectual disabilities. This, in turn, leads to greater opportunities for communities to include people with intellectual disabilities and support them as they seek to enrich their lives.
Pine Valley offers affordable prices, a course that challenges the novice and is centrally located. Pine Valley has a history in Prince George. It would be a shame not to build on that future. We need to see more green in the city; not concrete gray.
The city of Prince George offers some of the finest venues for sport and recreation in the province. Let's continue to provide for the future.
Special Olympics is humanity's greatest classroom, where lessons of ability, acceptance and inclusion are illuminated on fields of play by our greatest teachers - the athletes. Let's give them a fair playing field. Attend the City Council meeting on April 22, 2013 and lend your support to keeping Pine Valley intact.
Thom Ross
Local coordinator
Special Olympics BC - Prince George
