We are pleased to announce another successful charity golf tournament!  Over $33,000 was raised during the annual fundraiser held on Thursday, August 15th at the Grand Falls Golf Club thanks to our amazing sponsors, donors, golf participants, volunteers!

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Special thanks to our Corporate Sponsors: Newfoundland Styro, Aramark Canada, Labatt, Allnorth and Air-Tite Sheet Metal.

 

Thank you Belairdirect (formerly Johnson Insurance) for sponsoring our Hole in One contest. Thanks to Paula Grimes-Butler, Teena Parsons and Maria Sacrey of Outport Realty, who joined us and offered giveaways on their Hole. Thanks to Mike Patey and his grandson Jake, who came out and sponsored a Hole offering our golf participants a chance to win a trip for two anywhere in Canada. He donated $1,500 from the proceeds of the ticket sales to the Foundation. Congratulations to Evelyn Lucas of Air-Tite Sheet Metal on winning the trip. Thanks to David Baker of Labatt for the many additional things he did to make our tournament a success – a Taste Test Hole, offering Cowboy Hats for us to sell, proving the first, second, third and losing team prizes and for providing a free product to each golfer on golf day!

 

We had a 33 teams registered for our event.  Thank you to our Team Sponsors: All-Tech Environmental, Barry Group Inc., Benger’s Automotive, Calibre Mining (2 teams), Canadian Medical Products, Cartwright Medical Clinic, Central Meats, Central Office Equipment, Central Orthodontics, Chandler, Chiropractic Wellness Clinic, Crosbie Engineering, Dr. K. Wadhwa, East Coast Laundry Systems, Fougere Menchenton Architecture, Gander International Airport Authority, Grant Thornton LLP, IG Wealth Management (Dennis Rose), Steele Hyundai, KD Pratt, Merle’s Parts & Recreation, Paladin Security, RBC, Regional Plumbing (CNRHC), Riverview Motors, Springdale Lions Club, Teck Resources Duck Pond, Town of Grand Falls-Windsor and Western Star Trucks.  

 

Thank you to the businesses who supported our event as a Hole Sponsor: Airport Mazda, Artlin Safety Industrial, Babb Security Systems, Belairdirect , Cartwright Medical Centre, Central Dental Group, CIBC, Crane Tec Services, Dawes Mechanical, Dooley’s Trucking, Exploits Engineering Consultants, Fougere Menchenton,  Graybar Canada, Belairdirect, Jungle Jim’s Eatery, Killick Health Services, Labatt, Outport Realty, R&R HVAC & Controls Ltd., Riverview Motors Ltd., and Ultramar/Parkland.

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Thank you to those businesses that offered up prizes for our event. We had an amazing $7,512 in prizes donated. Not to mention food and beverages to help fuel and hydrate our golfers: A&W, Action Car and Truck, Artlin Safety & Industrial, B & K Carpet, Badger Diner, Breeze’s Barber Shop, Browning Harvey, Canadian Tire, CarQuest, Central Kia, Central Laser Therapy, Cohen’s Home Furnishings, Colonial Auto Parts, Credit Union, Dawe’s Mechanical, Dicks & Company, Dominion, Exploits Home Hardware, First Choice Vision Centre, Frito Lay, Gentleman B, Grand Falls Golf Club, Grand Falls Realty Co. Ltd., Headquarters Salon, Grand Toyota, Hickman Honda, Howlett’s Optical, Jungle Jim’s Eatery, Labatt, Lefty’s Pizzeria & Lounge, Mary Brown’s, McLoughlan Supplies Ltd., Mount Peyton Hotel, North Atlantic (Hardy Ave.), Precision Collision, Sharron’s Sales and Service, Sobey’s Store, Sobey’s Wholesale, Sport Chek, Stagg Signs, Steele Hyundai, Tim Horton’s/Sutherland Investments, The Car Spa, The Newfoundland Distillery, United Rentals and Vogue Optical.

 

And our event would not be as successful as it was without partners like the Grand Falls Golf Club, the Plumbing and Maintenance staff at CNRHC and 20 volunteers who included Board members Kris Spurrell and Dianne Minhas. Our volunteers included: Stephanie Boone, Christina Hynes, Harold Butt, Brenda Cooper, Marie Hawkins, Phil and Lorraine Haynes, Loriann Leyte, Diane Murdoch, Michelle O’Halligan, Olivia Organ and mother and daughter team - Lisa and Deidre Penney.

 

Last but not least, I have to give a shout out to our staff, Executive Assistant Cynthia Foss and summer student Ethan Lane, who were instrumental in preparing, organizing and making everything for golf day run smoothly.

 

I thank everyone involved. If I have forgotten anyone, I apologize as it really do take a village to make this event a success. Our proceeds will be used to purchase Laparoscopic OR instruments for Urology procedures at the Central Newfoundland Regional Health Centre.

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Thank you,

Wendy Houlihan

Executive Director