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Golf & Restaurant Update – March 14, 2024

Golf News

  • Carts available this Friday, March 15.
  • Tee boxes remain closed until there’s no ongoing threat of frost – anticipate them opening within a week or so.
  • Chipping and putting greens open.
  • Hitting bay available this Saturday, March 16.

Restaurant Update

  • Team working hard to meet normal City requirements to open the restaurant.
  • Still shooting for an April 1st opening at the Halfway House.
  • Water available for purchase at the first tee and for now, please bring snacks from home.
  • Planning an open house, date TBD, to introduce Oak Hills customers & Odeens team.
  • Menus nearly complete - we’ll share them as soon as possible.
  • John Lloyd and Barb Musser (owner and manager) busy interviewing folks to assemble a friendly, welcoming service staff.
  • Experienced chef hired, who’s worked for several years with Odeen’s catering business.
  • Thrilled that Kathy and Barbara will return to anchor the Halfway House staff.
  • Kitchen equipment replacement/repair and deep cleaning continues.
  • Restaurant signage designed - to get installed in April.
  • Finalizing outreach to our Outing partners to ensure event success.
  • Appreciate your patience and believe deeply that it will be rewarded.

There are many moving parts in every imaginable aspect. However, we’re doing everything to begin serving delicious food and drinks as soon as possible.

If you have any questions about reserving the restaurant for future events, please contact me @ This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call me at 203-858-4801. I’ll make sure to put you in the capable hands of either John or Barbara. Their phone number will be published shortly.

As always, please shoot me an email or give me a call to discuss any concerns.

Thanks for your support as we continue to build and grow.

Jim Hollyday
OHPA General Manager

 

OHP Tee Box Sodding Project – December 19, 2023

We promised to update you on course changes, so we sodded tee boxes on Holes 1, 8 & 18. If everything works well, the sod should be ready to produce lush tee boxes by opening day.
 
Please click the following link to see pictures: Oak Hills Park Golf Course – New Sod.
 
Have a wonderful Holiday season!
Jim Hollyday
OHP General Manager
Oak Hills Park Golf Course
 

 

Restaurant Search – December 13th, 2023

I wanted to share with you what we've been doing about our restaurant. Smokin' Aces is closed to the public and will be leaving on or before January 10, 2024. They will host 6 private parties in December, and one final event on January 7.

The OHPA Board of Directors tasked Alan Dutton, OHPA Vice Chairman, with forming a committee to search for a new concessionaire for the restaurant. To that end, he appointed board members Robert Stowers and Richard Dellinger, and club members Anne van Geldern, Andy Glazer, Steve Shepherd and Bob Pattacini to serve with him.

The committee will hold four meetings culminating in a recommendation to the board of directors for a vote on January 18, 2024. The kick off meeting was held on Friday, December 8. The Request for Proposal was posted on the websites for the City of Norwalk and the State of CT as well as on bonfire, a software program designed to assist municipalities with bid and RFP evaluations. Bonfire creates a scorecard allowing each committee member to rate all proposals across a broad spectrum of specifications. All committee members' scorecards will be reviewed together to ensure the best possible outcome. In addition to the general solicitation the committee has been doing outreach to private restaurateurs and golf course restaurants in our area.

The proposals will be opened and reviewed by all committee members this week. The 2nd meeting is scheduled for the week before Christmas. At this meeting finalists will be selected and interviews will be scheduled for the first week in January. The final meeting will be used for discussion and decision. The process is thorough and we all hope the recommendation to the board will signal the beginning of a new era for our club.

We will continue to keep you apprised of our progress and we appreciate your confidence and support. Should you have any questions or suggestions, please email me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

For the OHPA Board of Directors,

Jim Hollyday

 

Optimum Report – November 11th, 2023

Many of the emails we've sent from oakhillsgc.com and 1-2-1marketing.com to optonline.net
email addresses have not gone through.

We've spoken to Optimum Customer Service representatives and asked them to stop blocking email
from oakhillsgc.com and 1-2-1marketing.com; they have responded by informing us that:

  1. The Optimum customers must contact the Customer Service department directly to request that email from these domains is not blocked, AND
  2. A month ago, they sent all their customers a notification that they were discontinuing the optonline.net
    email domain, and that all customers that wish to maintain email with Optimum must contact them
    to establish an optonline.net account.

Please follow-up with Optimum (or switch your email provider) so that we'll be able to communicate with you
in the most direct way possible.

Thanks for your consideration!

I wanted to share with you what we've been doing about our restaurant. Smokin' Aces is closed to the public and will be leaving on or before January 10, 2024. They will host 6 private parties in December, and one final event on January 7.
The OHPA Board of Directors tasked Alan Dutton, OHPA Vice Chairman, with forming a committee to search for a new concessionaire for the restaurant. To that end, he appointed board members Robert Stowers and Richard Dellinger, and club members Anne van Geldern, Andy Glazer, Steve Shepherd and Bob Pattacini to serve with him.
The committee will hold four meetings culminating in a recommendation to the board of directors for a vote on January 18, 2024. The kick off meeting was held on Friday, December 8. The Request for Proposal was posted on the websites for the City of Norwalk and the State of CT as well as on bonfire, a software program designed to assist municipalities with bid and RFP evaluations. Bonfire creates a scorecard allowing each committee member to rate all proposals across a broad spectrum of specifications. All committee members' scorecards will be reviewed together to ensure the best possible outcome. In addition to the general solicitation the committee has been doing outreach to private restaurateurs and golf course restaurants in our area.
The proposals will be opened and reviewed by all committee members this week. The 2nd meeting is scheduled for the week before Christmas. At this meeting finalists will be selected and interviews will be scheduled for the first week in January. The final meeting will be used for discussion and decision. The process is thorough and we all hope the recommendation to the board will signal the beginning of a new era for our club.
We will continue to keep you apprised of our progress and we appreciate your confidence and support. Should you have any questions or suggestions, please email me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
For the OHPA Board of Directors,
Jim Hollyday
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