March 2016

Newsletter

Ottumwa Country Club

Inside this issue

New Members……………..pg7

Easter Brunch………………pg5

Comedian Night…………..pg3

Boulevard Glass Giveaway…………………….pg4

Gourmet Night…………….pg3

New Junior Dues…...…pg4

Membership Incentive………………….pg4

Golf Season …………….pg6

March madness……….pg7

Tennis Pro……………….pg6

Thank you for all that you do! I wanted to use this space to say thank you to a few people for their help with the club these past few months. First thank you goes to Deb and Duffy Peters for donating to the club so we could purchase a new ice machine. The previous machine was on its last leg and was installed back in 1981(we got our mon-eys worth from it).

Next is Karen and Dale Person for purchasing a mini freezer for the bar. It has made the new dessert drink menu that much more feasible and boy have we been selling those drinks. Joni is having a hard time keeping the ice cream in stock!

We would like to thank Dwight and Mary Lobberecht for the new Ninja Blender. We created a new menu of dessert drinks and they have become very popular. I don’t think the old blend-er could have held up to the challenge, not to mention it is a lot quieter.

Also I would like to thank Stan and Lou Blew for getting us

some new wine glasses. With more large events happening we

were having a hard time keeping up with enough glasses.

Finally I want to thank Jeanette Curran, Lois Knott, Audrey

Keck, Mike Sexton and anyone else I may have forgotten. Over

the winter season they have all helped with either decorating

for the upcoming holidays to doing club repairs. It is really nice

to have a membership that enjoys putting in a little extra time

and energy into making the club look as nice and festive as it

did this year. Thank You Everyone!

March 2016

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1

Wapello Medical

School Board

2

Chicago Bridge 1st wed. Bridge 8 of Hearts School Board

3

School Board

4

Kramer Party

School Board

5

Comedian/Music

6 7 8

Edward Jones

9

Boulevard Glass

Giveaway

10

SEI Symphony

EOT Bridge

11

Rotary Board

12

Johns Party

13 14 15

Gourmet Dinner

and Wine Pairing

16

Annual Board

Meeting

Touchy Bridge

8 of Hearts

17

Grammy Bridge

18 19

20 21 22

4th Tuesday Bridge

Ottumwa

Symphony

23

8 of Hearts

24

EOT Bridge

25 26

27

Easter Brunch

28 29 30

8 of Hearts

31

Ajinomoto

James Party

Gourmet Dining and Wine Pairing Tuesday March 15th at 7pm

Cost is $50 for meal and $20 for wine

Limited to 40 people so make your reservation soon!

Menu:

Appetizer: Caviar

Salad: Mandarin Almond Salad

Choice of Entrée: Crab Stuffed Filet – or –

Poulet Provencal (French Chicken dish)

Served with: 3 cheese Risotto, and Sautéed Brussel Sprouts, Bacon, Pine Nuts

Dessert: Special treat created by Indian Hills Culinary students!

Tickets are now

Buy one get one

Free so hurry!

Boulevard Glass

Giveaway

Join us on Wednesday

night Mar. 9th starting

a 5pm for a Boulevard

glass giveaway. Just

order a draft and you

get to keep the glass.

Also there will be other

giveaways. Limited

supply, so its first come

first serve.

4

Lets Grow the Club!

New Junior Dues Structure

We recently changed the Junior Dues structure to help en-

courage growth in the club with younger members. We

created a Junior Family 25-40 years of age, Junior Single

rate 25-40 years of age, and started an under 25 rate. We

think this rate structure change will really help with

creating the next generation of club members. If anyone

would like more information on this rate change or know

of anyone who might be interested in joining please

contact Mike.

Any member who successfully recruits a NEW

member to the club will receive credits in the amount of

the new membership.

Recruit a new golf membership and you will

receive a 375.00 credit.

Recruit a new dining membership and you will

receive a 65.00 credit.

There is no limit to how many credits you can re-

ceive. If you can recruit 5 new members you will receive

5 credits! Junior memberships excluded. If you have any

questions please feel free to contact Mike in the office

and he would be glad to help.

5

Easter

Brunch Sunday March 27th

10am - 1pm

Followed by the Easter

Egg Hunt

Cost: Adults -$18.00,

Child (6-12) - $7.00,

Children 5 and under - Free

Please call and make your

reservation.

Brunch Menu

Fried Chicken, Baked

Cod, Glazed Ham, Pot

Roast, Mashed Potatoes

and Gravy, Hash Brown

Casserole, Green Beans,

Rolls, Corn, Waffles,

Pancakes, Omelets, Biscuits and

Gravy, Iowa Bacon, Sau-

sage Links, Cinnamon

Rolls, Potato Salad, Mac-

aroni Salad,

Broccoli Salad, Seafood Salad, Fresh Leaf

Lettuce Salad Bar, Ice

Cream Bar, and Pies -Golf, the adult version of an

Easter egg hunt-

“You only live once but you get to serve twice.”

6

Golf Season

New Tennis Pro This is Doug Pumroy and he will be offering tennis in-

struction this summer at the Ottumwa Country Club. He has 36

years of experience teaching tennis to all levels of skill from be-

ginner, to state champions, to players on the professional tour.

He has worked at racquet clubs in Pittsburgh, Seattle, and

tennis camps in San Antonio. He can play tennis both right and

left handed, and can offer creative solutions to problems students

may have.

He has a great desire to regrow the game of tennis back

to what it once was and truly believes there is something for eve-

ryone interested in learning the game or improving their own

skill.

Keep your eyes open for future newsletters with updates

on clinics, junior programs, and lessons.

Golf season is basically turning its head to us and saying

“ come out and play “. With that in mind I wanted to leave a

few reminders of good course etiquette. Please fix all ball

marks on the greens and replace your divots. Allow groups

that are moving faster to play through when at all possible.

Also as we move into spring, we increases the chance of poor

course conditions, please be understanding that there are

times we may decide to not allow carts and that it really is for

the benefit of the course and all who want to play on it. Until

then we look forward to seeing everyone out there.

Also if anyone is interested, I was thinking about

starting a tee box adoption program. What it means is that you

can adopt the tee boxes on a hole and decorate them how you

want. You can choose the flowers, maybe put a planter or two

out there. If anyone is interested in this idea let Mike know in

the clubhouse.

Lori will be organizing a

March Madness bracket for

the NCAA tournament.

Make sure you check in

with her at the bar for

details and get yourself

entered in to win. Good

Luck

March Madness

New Members

Lindsay Alons and Sandro Younadam Tom and Jenny Lenger Family

Also we want to welcome:

Anthony and Robin Floden

Dusty and Erika Stewart

Kenneth and Nancy Peterson

If you see them help welcome them to the club