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The Arcands (I -r: Scott Arcand, cousin <br />Jennifer Trusty; cousin Patty �opeland; <br />and brother ale,Arcandf) ma a �anage- <br />ment of Oneka Ridge a amily attair <br />'k <br />UJ <br />F— <br />�A%. <br />! F <br />J 9 VIA" <br />J <br />r <br />s-,j,. As- <br />, _. ME-'%.p <br />__,E..,a.h <br />I <br />n <br />BY DAVID GOULD <br />ndustry types will discuss <br />a public golf operation for <br />only so long without ask- <br />ing about "that number" --the <br />course's annual tally of rounds <br />played. At Oneka Ridge Golf <br />Course in suburban St. Paul, <br />Minnesota, the total came to <br />just under 36,000 for 2014. That's <br />pretty robust business in a season <br />spanning less than eight months, <br />and the rounds total has kept at that <br />level for a good stretch of years. <br />Scott Arcand, president and gen- <br />eral manager of the family -awned, <br />6,360 -yard course at the northeast -,f_, <br />E ern edge of the. Twin Cities, speaks <br />f abdut his steady customer flow with <br />no trace of hubris.?t"s �w <br />"I'm a bit shy even saying that <br />our play hasn't fallen off during this <br />down period for golf, generally;' Ar- <br />cand admits. "We pull from a fairly <br />wide area geographically and from <br />many different socioeconomic pock- <br />ets. Everybody's welcome here, that <br />much I can tell you:' <br />Fashioned out of lightly rolling <br />cropland, the course opened in 1995 <br />as an artifact of that golf -course -a - <br />day construction boom. Its rack rate <br />i <br />currently tops out at $32 plus cart on <br />