Golf outing will raise funds for new playground

**Meg Hanke and Bailey Landgraf of ID Apparel, which is celebrating its fifth anniversary with a golf tournament fundraiser.** Photo by Dan Mundt

“It’s our fifth anniversary and we wanted to do something fun,” said Bailey Landgraf, who co-owns ID Apparel with Meg Hanke.

Two of their employees recently took up golf, so they decided to create a golf tournament to be played at Majestic Hills Golf Course on Saturday, September 30.

As a business, they have raised funds for causes such as the Crawford County Wellness Center project, #AdamStrong, Crawford County Hunger Fighter and others.

They decided the golf event should also be a fundraiser for a worthy cause.

“The Washington Park project came about at just the right time,” Bailey said.

Kids Kastle, the playground at the park, was demolished on August 21 following a recommendation from the city’s insurance carrier due to a variety of hazards related to the structure’s age and design.

Bailey pitched the golf outing fundraiser to Sam Ellis of Denison Parks & Recreation.

“He was all for it and he’s been helping us out,” she said. “We’ve been taking donations for prizes. We’re going to have pin prizes and flight prizes and we also are going to raffle items off.”

The City of Denison has issued a request for proposals for a new playground to determine the options available for a replacement for Kids Kastle.

“I’m excited to see what’s coming,” Bailey said. “I remember when it was built, and I love that it (the new playground) is going to be all-inclusive.”

For more information about the September 30 golf outing, or to sign up, call ID Apparel at 712-393-1611.

The four-person best ball tournament will begin at 10 a.m.

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ID Apparel exists because of the closure of Something Unique in Denison in 2018.

“We worked at Something Unique and when it closed, we decided to start up our own,” Bailey said.

“Meg and I really didn’t know what else we would do. I went to college for graphic design and she screen printed for 20-some years. We decided there was a need for it; Something Unique employed over 30 people.”

Their business began small but grew rapidly.

“We started in Meg’s basement doing just heat press vinyl work and then we were at Market in the Park and quickly became a favorite there,” she said.

“We had people reaching out to us to see if we could do bigger orders, so we started doing custom orders.”

They quickly outgrew Meg’s basement and purchased the former Miller’s Alley Antiques building on 3rd Avenue South in November 2019.

“We quickly grew out of that and now we’re uptown where the Junkery used to be,” Bailey said.

“We needed it because it was bigger than our old place.”

The new location, at 1327 Broadway, is long and narrow and has several levels.

“Every department has their own space; with the other one, all the production was in the basement and we just ran out of room,” she said. “We also had a manual screen printing press that was ideal for smaller orders. Then we started getting massive orders, so we needed a bigger press that automatically prints and it would not fit in the other building. That was the main reason for our move.”

Screen printing, embroidery and vinyl work are their main offerings.

“We have a retail store and we also have a wholesale site, so other boutiques around the world can find our stuff and buy it wholesale and sell it in their boutiques,” she said. “We just started that and we’ve already shipped to Alabama, New Jersey, Virginia and a few places in Iowa.”

They recently purchased a laser engraver that will allow ID Apparel to make custom tumblers and engrave wood and metal.

“We’ve turned it on and we’ve been practicing,” Bailey said. “We haven’t done orders yet because we have been swamped with fall sports and BBQ fest and Calf Show Days. We want to get it up and running before Christmas because it will be great for customized Christmas presents.”

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