NOVEMBER 16, 2018, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A3
Willow Lake golf range under new mgmt.
KEIZERTIMES/Derek Wiley
Rich and Heather Howard on the Willow Lake Golf Center and Driving Range. The Howards pur-
chased the business on Nov. 1 and have lots of improvements planned.
encouraged her husband to
follow his dreams.
“I’m all about following
your dreams,” Heather said. “It
was his dream. He had doubts
and I just said make your
dreams come true and do it.”
In his early 20s, Rich want-
ed to be a teaching profession-
al but never followed through
with it.
However, he’s now work-
ing towards becoming a PGA
teaching professional. Willow
Lake will also partner with the
McNary Golf Club profession-
al teaching staff to provide les-
sons at the range.
The driving range is a fam-
ily business. Marlene Parsons,
Heather’s mom and a Keizer
With the weather getting
city councilor, has worked at
the front desk answering phone colder, outdoor propane heat-
ers have been added to the
calls.
“It’s amazing just to see range.
The Howard’s also want
everything that’s brought this
place together and it’s going to enhance their retail space
to be really great for families and have discussed building a
miniature golf
in the commu-
course on the
nity,” Heather
property and
said. “Keizer is “We’ve got
adding
golf
a family.”
simulators.
While Rich a great
“ We ’r e
is the golfer community to
looking at ev-
in the fami-
erything, Rich
ly, Heather is be a part of.”
said. “Lots of
bringing her
— Rich Howard, outside the box
career as a mas-
Owner, Willow Lake
thinking is tak-
sage therapist
Golf Center
ing place. It’s
to the range.
super exciting
The How-
ards also expanded business to think about where this place
hours and plan to add beer, is now, where we’re going to
wine and food options to go take it. We’ve got a great com-
along with on-site massage and munity to be a part of.”
The Willow Lake Golf Cen-
golf-related stretching and fi t-
ter, located at 6020 Windsor Is-
ness programs.
“We’re maintaining many of land Rd. N., is hosting a ribbon
the programs that existed here cutting ceremony and Keizer
and building on them,” Rich Chamber Greeters on Tuesday,
Dec. 11 at 8:30 a.m.
said.
Help make the holidays
brighter for a local senior
Home Instead Senior Care is setting out to
make the holiday season a little less isolating for
local seniors.
Almost a third of seniors 65 and older live
alone according to AARP. When seniors have
few friends and families to surround themselves
with feelings of isolation often follow.
Home Instead Senior Care’s offi ce serving
Salem is inviting the community to come to-
gether to provide gifts and holiday cheer to
seniors who may be isolated from friends or
family this holiday season through its Be a San-
ta to a Senior program. Last year, more than 160
local seniors received their requested gifts.
Be a Santa to a Senior is a community pro-
gram partnering with Salem businesses, non-
profi t organizations, retailers, numerous volun-
teers and members of the community. The local
effort is headquartered at Shopko Pharmacy,
1230 Lancaster Drive S.E., in Salem.
A gifting tree is already set up at the site with
ornaments that include a senior’s fi rst name and
desired gift. Holiday shoppers can choose an
ornament, buy the requested gift and return it
to the store with the ornament attached. There’s
no need to worry about wrapping — program
partners will wrap and Meals on Wheels will
deliver the gifts to local seniors in time for the
holidays.
For more information about the program,
visit BeaSantatoaSenior.com or call (503) 361-
5477. You can learn more about helping help
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By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
Keizer residents Rich and
Heather Howard have stayed
busy since purchasing the
Willow Lake Golf Center and
Driving Range on Nov. 1.
But none of those days have
really felt like work.
“I’ve worked seven days
a week, 13 hours a day since
we’ve owned it and I don’t
feel like I’ve worked a day,”
said Rich, who has played golf
for 40-plus years and wanted
to own a business like Willow
Lake for nearly as long.
“When I lived in Hillsboro
there was a driving range and I
loved that place and I thought
I’d really like to have something
like that of my very own,” Rich
said. “I didn’t just want to own
a business. I wanted to own a
business that was in an industry
that’s a passion of mine, some-
thing I can pour my heart into.”
When the Keizer driving
range went on the market,
Heather, a McNary graduate,
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