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Adventure Golf follows through
Mini golfing
center offers
variety of fun
As far as miniature golf courses
go, Lincoln’s Adventure Golf Cen
ter is up to par.
In fact, it’s better than average.
With 36 holes of miniature golf,
not to mention six batting cages
and remote-controlled boats, Ad
venture Golf offers a slew of op
tions for a family outing.
Adventure Golf is a well
groomed facility that is pleasing to
the eye. Both of the 18-hole cours
es offer challenging miniature golf
in pleasant surroundings.
The courses are built around a
stream with a small waterfall that
leads into a pond. Trees and shrubs
outline the courses ami are labeled
for curious golfers.
Each course has a “cave” hole,
in which the ball and golfer must
pass through a cave-like structure.
One of the courses has several wa
ter hazards, where an errant shot
can send the ball into the drink.
Like most miniature golf cours
es, the holes look easier than they
actually are.
Despite the lengthy drive from
campus—the golf center is locat
ed on 56th Street just south of Old
Cheney Road-— Ad ven tore Gotf
attracts many UNL students, own
er Betsy Egan said.
“A lot of fraternities and soror
ities have groups come out, or have
functions here,” she said. “And a
number of college students work
here.”
If you aren’t much of a minia
ture golfer, take a swing in the
batting cages.
The cages accommodate both
softball and baseball players. This
allows Adventure Golf to cater to
more customers, Egan said.
Little league and other teams
often rent the cages for batting
practice, she said.
“It runs with the baseball and
softball seasons,” Egan said.
The family-owned center opened
four years ago, after Egan decided
to be her own boss and take the
plunge into private enterprise, she
said.
Opening a miniature golf course
isn’t cheap, Egan said. About
SI00,000 was spent on landscap
ing alone.
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Businesses
deliver for
restaurants
that don’t
So you’re up studying and can’t
take a break.
But the hunger pangs have you in
their grip, and the only thing in the
fridge is pizza so old you can’t tell
what’s on it.
If pizza doesn’t sounds attractive,
try GoldenToes.
GoldenToes is not a restaurant.
The businessdoesn’teven make food.
GoldenToes delivers food.
It is an idea who’s time has come,
at least to Lincoln, said Neil Tauzin,
owner.
“We deliver food for places that
don’t deliver,” he said.
Tauzin, along with his partner, Jeff
Dodge—owner of Ramo’s pizza —
started the delivery service earlier
this summer, and they’ve been run
ning ever since.
“It’s really exhausting. We work
lots of hours,” Tauzin said.
With three delivery drivers and a
city-wide delivery area, GoldenToes
is small, but very active, he said.
“We communicate with the driv
ers by radio,” Tauzin said. “They’re
alwavs in the field.”
The company contracted with lo
cal area restaurants such as Subway,
Spaghetti Works.George’sGyros and
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then printed a mega-menu which con
tains the complete menu of each res
taurant.
When a customer calls
GoldenToes, he or she can choose any
item off any menu— though there is
a $10 minimum order.
GoldenToes then contacts the res
taurants, places the order, picks it up
ami delivers it—all for a $3 charge.
“Most of our business has not been
students," Tauzin said.
“We think that’s because school
just started andlhey don ’ t know about
us yet."
This kind of food delivery service
is not unique to Lincoln, Tauzin said.
They’re springing up in large univer
sity towns all over the country.
“But we’re the original in Lin
coln," he said. “We’re the only one."
The only one — for now.
GoldenToes is in for some competi
tion soon.
Scott Garnet said his delivery ser
vice, Car Cafe, will open next week.
With contracts already negotiated
—Runza, Tina’s Cafe and RioGrande
have signed up — and more in the
See FOOD on 10
Stupid releases include
spoof, sequel, soaps
HEW glfiiif
Most of the new fall shows debut this week
and it's a good thing too: this week’s video
releases leave much to be desired.
"Children of the Corn II" This sequel has
absolutely nothing in common with Stephen
King’s short story that the original was based
upon.
A reporter discovers a cellar full of dead
bodies in a rural town. Soon after beginning his
investigation, he finds local demon-possessed
children are to blame. The only way to stop the
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kids is to confront the cornfield. Don, so scary.
The only interesting factor—this alone may
lead to a rental—of this pathetic video is that
the action/horror is set in a fictional Nebraska
town.
“Daytime's Greatest Weddings" A three
volume set, including a tape devoted to each of
the following: “All My Children,” “General
Hospital” and “One Life to Live.”
The best in soap opera weddings detailed
and celebrated. What more could a video renter
want? Love, romance, life and death.
“Fire in the Sky” This videoboasts the
supernatural and a premise supposedly based
on actual events.
D.B. Sweeney stars as Travis Walton, an
Arizona lumber worker ,who in 1975 was cap
tured by an alien spacecraft. His four co-work
crs also saw the UFO, but they fled and escaped
unscathed. Walton was subjected to numerous
inhuman experiments and tests, poked and
prodded in ways not known to humans.
James Gamer costars as an investigator who
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suspects a government cover-up.
The acting is pretty good, but the real draw
here is that these events really might have
