IOWA LAKES FOUNDATION GOLF OUTING BENEFITS KOSSUTH RESIDENTS
The Iowa Lakes
Community College Foundation held its annual golf outing on June
1 at River Road Golf Club in Algona. Seventy-five golfers hit
the links to benefit Kossuth County residents with scholarships
to attend Iowa Lakes.
Flight winners
included - Flight 1 Dave Kading, Max Kading and Doug Lago;
Flight 2 Tom Manley, John Beneke and Bill Lapczenski; and,
Flight 3 William Clegg, Jack Lichter, Merle Moore and Eulen
Schuller.
The "high score" team of Tara Rochleau, Andrea Bernhard,
Ellengray Kennedy and Echo Lochwood received "Drown Your
Sorrows" beverage tickets.
Dr. Steve Richards
sunk his putt to win the putting contest.
Flag contest prizes
were awarded to John Beneke hole 2 (longest drive men); Lee
Gunderson hole 3 (closest to the pin); Molly Schaeffer hole 6
(longest drive women) and Doug Lago hole 9 (longest putt).
Raffle winner of the 2006 Club Car Precedent electric golf cart
(partially donated by River Road Golf Club) was David Bibler of
Algona.
"I can't begin to
express our gratitude to all the sponsors, donors of silent
auction items, golfers and the River Road staff," stated Trudy
Kattner, Algona Campus Dean, "without their support we would not
be able to offer scholarships to Iowa Lakes for Kossuth County
students. It is wonderful!"
Silent auction
packages were made possible by Americinn, Berte's Back Nine,
Countryside BarBQ, Family Table, Godfather's, Innovations,
Kmart, Pharmacists, River Road Golf, Sister Sarah's, Sportsman's
Corner,
The Gallery, Water Connection, Turn the Page, Wehrspan
Chiropractic and Wiltgen Jewelers from Algona; North Kossuth
Golf and Spa.dee.dah from Bankcroft; Estherville Golf and Studio
M Photography from Estherville; Lost Island Golf and Ruthven
Meat Processing from Ruthven; Spencer Golf & Country Club,
Spencer Municipal Golf, Culligan - Emmetsburg, Fort Dodge
Country Club, Silver Lake Country Club - Lake Park, Spring
Valley Golf - Livermore, RV Central - Milford, Minnesota Twins,
Brooks Golf - Okoboji, Indian Hills Golf - Spirit Lake, West
Bend Golf, Whittemore Golf and Fridley Theatres.
Event sponsors
included Algona Municipal Utilities, Algona Publishing, Aluma,
American Glass/Algona Plumbing & Heating, Central
Financial/Klein Insurance, Citizens Community Credit Union,
Cozzini,
Elbert Chevrolet, Erpelding Voigt & Co., Farmers & Traders,
Heartland Mutual, Helmers Insurance/West Iowa Bank, Holiday
Express, Hughes Brennan & Wirtz, Iowa State Bank, Kemna Auto,
KOFAB, Motor Inn,
Northwest Federal, PepsiAmericas, Pharmacists, SBEMCO, Security
State Bank, Snap On, State Bank/Security National Bank, Storey
Kenworthy, Stundahl's Cleaning, Titonka-Burt Communications,
Water Connection and Welp, Inc.
Scholarship
recipients who will benefit from event funds during the 2007-08
academic year include Melanie Brown, Lauri Hoover, Emily Reimers
and Joshua Waechter of Algona; Jodee Goche and Jeannie Nemmers
of Bancroft; Kendra Cash and Mindy Meyer of Fenton; Patrick
Kelly and Debra Steven of Lakota; Mark Laubenthal of Wesley and
Andrew Stuecker of West Bend.
Doug Lago, president of the Iowa Lakes
Foundation, addresses the golfers at the
2007 Kossuth County Scholarship Golf Outing prior to the shotgun
start.
