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At Your Bark and Call is the first state of the art, upscale mobile grooming salon to come to the area. Co-Owned by Kim Murphy, a Certified Dog Groomer, and her partner, Kim Smith, both are long time residents of Putnam County, WV.

What sets them apart from other salons is that they are able to concentrate on quality, not quantity. Catering to the pet owners who want nothing but the best for their pet.

Mobile grooming can be more than just a convenience. Why send your dog to a grooming shop to sit in a cage for 6-8 hours? Being in a strange loud environment can be very stressful for dogs. Most grooms take less than two hours. When you call, they bring there full size, self contained and powered facility to you. Instead of you loading the dirty dogs in the car, taking them to the pet shop, going home and waiting several hours... then returning to pick them up, they come directly to your door, groom your dogs in their, van and return them with NO CAGE TIME!

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For more information:
Kim Murphy, Owner/Groomer | Putnam County, WV | 304-545-4724
www.atyourbarkandcallwv.com | groombykim@gmail.com

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Harold Payne to be inducted into third class of WV Golf Hall of Fame

The West Virginia Golf Foundation is thrilled to announce today its third class and fourth member into the West Virginia Golf Hall of Fame. Hurricane's Harold Payne will be inducted into the 2011 Class of the WV Golf Hall of Fame. As an amateur golfer, he is the only player to win three West Virginia grand slams (winning the WV Open and WV Amateur in the same year) and has won every single West Virginia State Championship he has qualified for. Payne will join the Hall of Fame with three other West Virginia golfing greats: Bill Campbell, Sam Snead and Ed Tutwiler, Jr.

Originally from South Charleston, Payne grew up playing golf at Sleepy Hollow Golf Club in Hurricane, where his parents were charter members. To this day, he is still an active member at the golf course.

As a member of South Charleston High School's golf team, Payne was a member of the All-State team and qualified twice for the state high school golf tournament, finishing in third place in 1971 at Parkersburg Country Club and again in 1973 at Kanawha Country Club. Also as a junior golfer, Payne played in the US Junior Amateur at Manor Country Club in Rockville, Md., and in 1972, he was the WV Open Low Amateur at South Hills Golf Club in Parkersburg.

Upon graduating high school, Payne received a scholarship to play golf at Marshall University. It was during his years in college, where his exceptional amateur golfing career took off. He was Marshall's golf team's MVP (for low stroke average) during each of the four years he played (from 1973-1977). Among other accomplishments, Payne was NCAA All-American Honorable Mention in 1975 and 1976, Marshall Invitational Champion at Guyan Golf & Country Club in 1976, Spartan Invitational Champion at Michigan State in 1976, and finished 19th individually in the NCAA Championship at Albuquerque, N.M. in 1976 (Marshall's golf team finished 17th overall for the Championship), where he was also the low round of the day, with a 69, during the third round. In 1989, Payne was inducted into the Marshall University Athletics Hall of Fame.

In 1979, Payne won his first-ever WV Amateur Championship at The Greenbrier Resort, where he defeated former Marshall University teammate and defending Champion, Scott Davis.

"I'm floating," Payne previously commented of his first WV Amateur victory.

By the mid 80s, Payne was back on the victory wagon, winning back-to-back WV Amateur Championships at The Greenbrier in both 1986 and 1987. He also won three straight WV Open Championships, in 1986 at Sleepy Hollow GC, 1987 at The Resort at Glade Springs Cobb Course and 1988 at Williams Country Club in Weirton. He also picked up the WV Mid-Amateur Championship in 1987 at Sleepy Hollow Golf Club.

In 1988, Payne played in the British Amateur at Royal Porthcawl, Wales, where he qualified for Match Play, and lost one down to eventual Champion, Gary Wolstenholme. He also played in the 1993 British Amateur at Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland.

By 1991, he won his fourth WV Amateur title, where he defeated Lesage's Pat Carter, also a Marshall University golfer, by eight strokes. Payne's winning margin at the WV Amateur was the largest since the two-course format change in 1982. By the age of 38, Payne had picked up his fifth WV Amateur title at The Greenbrier in 1993, where he captured his title in a shootout with brother-in-law, Steve Fox, and Hobe Bauer. Also in the same year, he won his fourth WV Open at Pipestem State Park, where he knocked off defending Champion, Brad Westfall by two strokes.

Payne crossed another WV State Championship title off his list in 1995, winning his first WV Four-Ball Championship at The Raven Golf Club at Snowshoe Mountain with partner, Bill Donahoe. Also in 1995, he represented West Virginia in the very first USGA State Team Matches in Lake Nona, Fla., where he finished in 7th place individually, and played in the US Mid-Amateur at Caves Valley Country Club in Baltimore. In 1996, Payne finished Low Amateur in the WV Open at Sleepy Hollow GC and played in the US Mid-Amateur at Hartford Country Club in Hartford, Conn. In 1997, he represented West Virginia again in the USGA State Team Matches in Sun Ridge Canyon, Ariz.

As he is in his senior golfing years, Harold Payne already has a quite impressive list of accomplishments, winning the WV Senior Amateur Stroke Play in 2006 (Esquire Country Club) and 2008 (The Raven at Snowshoe Mtn.); the WV Senior Four-Ball (with Steve Fox) in 2007 (Twisted Gun GC), 2009 (The Raven at Snowshoe Mtn.) and 2010 (Twisted Gun GC). Also in 2009, Payne was the WV Senior Amateur Champion and Senior Player of the Year. Throughout the past several years, he has also won many WV Senior Series one-day tournaments, as well as other West Virginia one-day series events.

In addition to all of Harold Payne's State Championships, he has been Club Champion of Pete Dye Golf Club three times, Club Champion of The Resort at Glade Springs Stonehaven Course, Kanawha Valley Golf Association Club Champion, Big Bend Invitational Champion, Riverside Open Champion, Pocahontas Amateur Champion and many more. He has also won two Mid-Pines Invitational Four-Ball Championships (with John Duty, Sr.) and the Pine Needles Invitation Four-Ball with Steve Fox.

Among his unprecedented accomplishments on the golf course, Payne is a past President of the West Virginia Golf Association (1996-2001) and is responsible for kick-starting the West Virginia Golf Foundation and its two main initiatives: the William C. Campbell Scholarship and the WV Golf Hall of Fame.

Payne will be inducted into the 2011 WV Golf Hall of Fame this fall on a date and venue to be determined.

Article provided by West Virginia Golf Association and written by Stephanie Hatcher.

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