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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- One of the season's final local qualifiers for a USGA-related event takes place Thursday when the Country Club of Hudson hosts the U.S. Senior Amateur qualifier.

A field of 61 will play for four qualifying spots in the 57th annual Senior Amateur, played at Kinloch Golf Club in Virginia, Sept. 10-15.

Three of the top four players from last year's qualifier at Congress Lake Club -- Aurora's Jim Harless , Akron's Bill Downing and Logan Jackson of Winston Salem, N.C. -- have entered. The USGA Senior Amateur Championship is open to players age 55 and older.

Two players from Akron have won the Senior Amateur in the past 20 years. Bill Bosshard triumphed in 1991 and Joe Ungvary Sr. prevailed two years later. Ungvary's 7-and-6 victory in the finals over Jerry Nelson at Farmington Country Club in Charlottesville, Va., still stands as the record for largest margin of victory.

Bosshard ranks as the second-youngest champion in tournament history at 55 years, three months.

A little younger: The U.S. Mid-Amateur qualifier will be held at Barrington Golf Club on Aug. 24. It is the final USGA qualifying event for 2011. The U.S. Mid-Am will be played Sept. 17-22 at Shadow Hawk in Richmond, Texas.

Hospice update: Medina's Pat Spoerndle reports he raised a little more than $19,000 for the Hospice of Medina County during his third-annual 100 for Hospice fund-raiser at Fox Meadow on Aug. 1. Spoerndle played 100 holes in seven hours and 45 minutes.

"This year's event surpassed my expectations," he said.

Spoerndle has raised about $56,000 in the three years.

Learning experience: Hinckley's Jessica Porvasnik , Geneva's Danielle Nicholson and Akron's Jessie Stephens did not fare so well in last week's Junior PGA Championship at Sycamore Hills in Ft. Wayne, Ind., an event known as the Westfield Junior PGA during its seven-year run at Westfield Country Club.

All three missed the cut at Ft. Wayne. Ariya Jutanugarn of Thailand won the boys competition with a score of 15-under 273, and Mariah Stackhouse of Riverside, Ga., won the girls division with a score of 283.

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Brian K. Payne, former executive director, president and CEO, Catholic Hospice, Miami, named president and CEO, Hospice & Palliative CareCenter, Winston-Salem, succeeding JoAnn E. Davis, who has worked at the organization for 26 years, starting as part-time bookkeeper. Jehan Benton-Clark, executive director, Partners Ending Homelessness, Greensboro, named program officer, health-care division, Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust, Winston-Salem. Sherry Carpenter, who nearly 20 years ago led an initiative to form a partnership between Goodwill Industries of Northwest North Carolina and Forsyth Technical Community College to offer skills-training classes, received the Robert E. and Charlotte Watkins Award for Mission Advancement from Goodwill Industries International. The Salvation Army of Winston-Salem has opened a new 5,000-square-foot multi-purpose facility at the International Corps at 2850 New Walkertown Road.

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