It was another big year for the Chatham-Kent Charity Classic.<\/p>\n
The fifth annual golf tournament took place at Willow Ridge Golf and Country Club on Saturday, August 16 and raised over $44,000 for several local organizations.<\/p>\n
Cheques were presented in early October to five groups at Red Barn Brewing.<\/p>\n
The Mental Health Network of Chatham Kent received $15,000, which was used to purchase a new air conditioner for their facility thanks to a partnership with Handy Bros Home Comfort. They also purchased a new double oven kitchen setup so they can\u00a0teach and prepare meals daily.<\/p>\n
The Ontario Student Nutrition Program (OSNP) received $10,000, which allowed\u00a0the purchase of over 17,000 snacks for school aged children in Chatham Kent.<\/p>\n
reeHelp CK received $8,000, which was used to\u00a0serve 125 seniors weekly with their Meals for Seniors program.<\/p>\n
The CK Charity Classic was also able sponsor\u00a0the Chatham Kent Children’s Safety Expo, and donate to the CK Racquet Centre to purchase equipment for a pilot program to introduce tennis to school aged kids in Chatham Kent.<\/p>\n
The golf tournament has raised\u00a0over $146,000 in five years for\u00a0various not-for-profit and charitable organizations in Chatham-Kent.<\/p>\n
Next year’s proceeds will benefit the Village Resource Centre in Wheatley. Organizers\u00a0also announced a new partnership with the Kiwanis Club of Chatham-Kent to help fund the Dolly Parton Imagination Library, and keep getting high quality books into the hands of local youth.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0CK Charity Classic is a non profit that was been founded by Adam and Erin Dickinson along with Eric Koscielski as a way to give back to Chatham-Kent with all proceeds staying in the municipality.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was another big year for the Chatham-Kent Charity Classic. The fifth annual golf tournament took place at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-227131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227131","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=227131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}