The Cowichan District Hospital Foundation has raised another quarter of a million dollars towards their fundraising goal during a sold-out golf tournament.
The event was held at Cowichan Golf Course and featured a hole-in-one contest where one participant walked away with 10 per cent of the winnings.
Marketing director for Cowichan District Hospital Foundation Deborah Rogers says it came as a shock to learn that someone had made a hole-in-one, but it was a win-win scenario.
“Part-way through the day, we got a notification that someone had made the hole-in-one, and we had a cash prize of $50,000,” she says. “Forty per cent of the prize went to the foundation, and the other 10 per cent went to the winner.
“The gentleman who won the hole-in-one was actually one of the architects of the new hospital.”
According to Rogers, since the matching campaign began, they’ve been able to raise just over $15 million, and she says with the help of Jim Pattison, the CDHF only needs to raise another $2.5 million.