At their regular meeting on Monday night, the Albert Lea City Council will be asked to approve an expansion at Bancroft Bay Disc Golf Course.

Tim Engstrom and Ross Brandt from the local Disc Golf Club will be present to discuss their proposal to expand the current nine-hole disc golf course located in the upper part of Bancroft Bay Park to eighteen holes.  

They presented their proposal at the February 20th Park and Recreation Advisory Board meeting.  The Board voted to support the proposal.  

They would like to start fundraising efforts and hopefully complete the project by early summer.
 

The Albert Lea Park and Rec Department says that warming houses will be closed for the season due to warm weather temperatures.

Their openings were delayed several times over the last couple of months.  They finally opened for just 10 days in January.

Park and Rec is hoping for a better winter for warming houses next year.

This year's Gourmet Auction to benefit the 2012 Big Island Rendezvous and Festival and other projects funded by the Albert Lea-Freeborn County Chamber of Commerce is coming up.

Funds raised at the auction will go towards bringing in re-enactors for students to experience, reduced entrance fees, scholarships, and trip funding grants for classes that would otherwise be unable to experience Education Days.

There will be an array of items on which to bid, as well as lots of great food to sample and savor.

If you go:

• Gourmet Auction
• January 27th, 6pm
• Wedgewood Cove Golf Club
• Tickets are $20 or 2 for $30
• Make reservations with the Chamber at 373-3938.