Members of the Village Preservation Association of Plainfield, the neighborhood organization dedicated to honoring the village’s rich history and its promising future, are finalizing plans for their 6th annual golf outing. This year’s event is set for Aug. 25 at The Bourne, a beautiful and rugged 18-hole course near Marseilles. A noon shotgun start is planned.
The nonprofit organization --- which also lights up the downtown streets with the warm candlelight of luminaria at holiday time, and puts on the enormously popular Hometown Irish Parade every March --- uses proceeds from the outing for historic preservation initiatives throughout the community. Among its projects have been landmark designation, advocacy in current and ongoing preservation concerns, and the restoration and maintenance of the 1847 schoolhouse, which the VPA donated to Plainfield School District 202 after moving the structure to its administration center property on Howard Street. The VPA is currently partnering with the Will County Forest Preserve District on a series of interpretive signs to be installed at key sites of historic significance in Plainfield.
The $65 ticket price includes the golf round, cart, best-ball format, prizes and raffles, a box lunch to take on the course, and an all-you-care-to-eat cookout afterward. For those interested in only the dinner portion, the cost is $10. Beverages will be available for purchase.
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For additional information, to sponsor a hole or to purchase tickets, call 815-483-8880 or send an email tomartinrogman@yahoo.com.
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