We are fortunate enough to be the site to about 40 wedding ceremonies a year. Since they currently get married near number nine green, we have to take down and set up the chairs for every. single. ceremony. It’s tedious. Just for fun, I like to keep track of how many chairs we set up […]
Polar Bear Open
Six years ago, I had a group of men approach me and ask if they could have a Polar Bear Open at our golf course. They had never planned a golf outing before, but as graduates from North High School in Des Moines, they had a strong desire to raise money for Dollars for Scholars […]
S-A–T-U-R–D-A-Y Night!
Sing it with me! We are a highly seasonable business. For the most part, we are a pretty hopping place for about 3 months out of the year. There are 52 weekends in a year, so we make the best of them. That is, those twenty weekends in the summer months when our Iowa weather […]
Altoona Chamber’s Wine Tasting
Several years ago, the Altoona Chamber began putting on a wine tasting for the community. In the last decade, the wine industry in Iowa has experienced tremendous growth. There are many local wineries popping up all over our state. Some of that growth is because of the experimentation with wine in recent years. Iowans are […]