The Belleville General Hospital Foundation\u2019s Fairways for Fractures golf tournament raised a record-breaking $140,035.<\/p>\n
Money raised goes towards supporting the redevelopment of the Fracture Clinic at Quinte Health, Belleville General Hospital.<\/p>\n
The event was held on Thursday, September 18 at Black Bear Ridge.<\/p>\n
You can read the full press release below:<\/p>\n
Belleville\u2019s biggest charity golf day just hit another hole-in-one for local healthcare. BGHF\u2019s Fairways for Fractures raised $140,035, to support the redevelopment of the Fracture Clinic at Quinte Health, Belleville General Hospital.<\/p>\n
The event, held on Thursday, September 18, at Black Bear Ridge, saw the business community, sponsors, and players come together in unwavering support of their regional hospital.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis event is about more than just golf\u2014it\u2019s about rallying our community around the need for excellent healthcare close to home,\u201d said Steve Cook, Executive Director, BGHF. \u201cI want to acknowledge the incredible generosity of title sponsors McDowell\u2019s Your Independent Grocer Belleville and Stedman LaPalm Insurance Group, along with all our sponsors, donors, and players who make the day so successful \u2013 and fun!\u201d<\/p>\n
Over the past seven years, Fairways for Fractures has raised over $664,000 for the redevelopment of the Fracture Clinic at BGH.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis year\u2019s tournament comes at a critical time,\u201d noted Wayne Sheppard, Board Chair, BGHF.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese stellar results bring us within $250,000 of our fundraising goal for this project. Thank you to everyone who has helped us get so close to the finish line. Together, we\u2019ll transform the Fracture Clinic into a state-of-the-art space worthy of our hospital staff and the patients it serves.\u201d<\/p>\n
Participants enjoyed a premium golf experience, including delectable offerings from Burger Revolution, Giant Tiger and Maple Dale Cheese, refreshing Swing Easy Beer and fun activities and competitions from Peter Smith GM, Kita Beauty, County Axe and Steve Marshman Jewlery.<\/p>\n
Winners Included:<\/p>\n
Winning Foursome: Troy Coltman, Atef Shah, Joe Smith
\n2nd Place Foursome: Dave DeGrace, Matt MacEwan, Nick Martin, Drew Moore
\nMost Honest Foursome: Janice Deal, Chloe Marshell, Sydney Porter, Cheryl Insley
\nLongest Drive Women: Allison Knudsen
\nLongest Drive Men: Atef Shah
\nClosest to the Pin Women: Judi Gilbert
\nClosest to the Pin Men: Matt Couperus
\nBeat the Pro: Tyson Rux
\nChip for Bling: Nolan Frazer<\/p>\n
Congratulations to all the winners!<\/p>\n
For more information about BGHF or to donate to close the funding gap on the Fracture Clinic redevelopment, please contact Steve Cook, Executive Director, at scook@quintehealth.ca<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Belleville General Hospital Foundation\u2019s Fairways for Fractures golf tournament raised a record-breaking $140,035. Money raised goes towards…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[3735,3736,49,48,622,44,3733,3731,3734,3729,3730,3737,82,3732],"class_list":{"0":"post-155542","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-bancroft","9":"tag-brighton","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-golf","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-pec","15":"tag-picton","16":"tag-prince-edward-county","17":"tag-quinte","18":"tag-quinte-news","19":"tag-quinte-west","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-trenton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}