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Eagle Oaks

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Vest Fund Fundraiser Set For Next Month

Golf outing raises money for PBA and Howell Police Department needs

For more than a decade local business owners and community members have gotten together for a golf outing to help supply the local police department with much needed bullet proof vests.  Since that time their goals have expanded to providing other items like defibrillators and flash lights for local officers. Jim Kirk, the owner of Kirk Florist is one of the founders of the Vest and Safety fund said the idea has grown in recent years.  On July 2 the fund will host the 14th George Garo Memorial Golf Outing at Eagle Oaks Golf and Country Club in Farmingdale. Kirk said the idea for the outing and the fund came from having breakfast with a lifelong friend who was also a member of the Howell Police Department.  Kirk said like most people he did…

Monday, May 30, 2011

Eagle Oaks Finds a Special Way to Say Thank You

Club pays tribute to members of armed forces with Honor Day

It was a beautiful spring day at Eagle Oaks Golf and Country Club in Farmingdale on Thursday. In addition to the clear blue skies and the rich green of the course there was also lots of awe inspiring red white and blue to be seen as well. For the third year in a row, the club held its annual Honor Day celebration where service members from the Navy and Marines are given the opportunity to come play a round of golf and take part in a moving banquet at night as well.  John Beurskens, who serves as the assistant general manager and membership director for the club said the day was first formulated four years ago as special activity to coincide with Fleet Week in New York. Since that time he said the day has become an important tradition. "The…

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