The annual indoor golf tournament raised over $4,000 for the Brechin-Mara Legion this weekend<\/p>\n
For the past month it has felt like a non-stop blizzard outside. Yet, -30 degrees Celsius on Saturday couldn’t prevent local golfers from teeing off for a good cause in the cozy, warm interior of the Brechin-Mara Legion.<\/p>\n
Over the past decade, the annual indoor golf tournament in Ramara has raised over $70,000 to support the Brechin-Mara Legion. The event started 32 years ago in the McIsaac family\u2019s basement.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is an incredible event to break up winter,” said Keith Bell, not wearing his deputy mayor hat, but holding a hot bowl of chili.<\/p>\n
“We have been coming for several years. I do remember it starting at Jim\u2019s house and later at the Joyland Beach Hall before coming to the Legion. It is always a great family event,\u201d said Bell.<\/p>\n
Over $4,000 was raised this year, $1,600 of which was from admission tickets. For the past few years, funds have gone toward building renovations, like the accessibility features recently installed.<\/p>\n
The basement space is now open to host over 200 people, adding to the upstairs capacity.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow we\u2019re operating with two floors instead of one. We also have continuous hydro here if the power stops, and if there was a big emergency we have more capacity,\u201d said Eddie Ste. Marie, the Legion\u2019s third vice-president and building chair.<\/p>\n
At holes one and 10 there were special prizes for getting a hole-in-one, donated by Steve McIsaac Carpentry and Space Age Insulation.<\/p>\n
Prizes, hot food, and a summer sport helped many forget for a short time what Old Man Winter delivers.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s always been a good time, you get to meet a lot of people from the community,\u201d said Ste. Marie, noting the many new faces in attendance this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The annual indoor golf tournament raised over $4,000 for the Brechin-Mara Legion this weekend For the past month…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,181757,622,82],"class_list":["post-438105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fundraiserkeith-belleddie-ste-mariebrechin-mara-legionindoor-golf-tournament","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438105","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=438105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}