{"id":440047,"date":"2026-01-29T04:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T04:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/440047\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T04:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T04:00:08","slug":"first-annual-teed-off-at-breast-cancer-golf-tournament-helps-raise-more-than-50000-for-bc-cancer-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/440047\/","title":{"rendered":"First annual Tee\u2019d Off at Breast Cancer Golf Tournament helps raise more than $50,000 for BC Cancer Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cUnfortunately, my wife succumbed to breast cancer, coming up on two years (ago) now, and this was an opportunity in my mind for her life to have legacy and meaning,\u201d said Gary Sallaway, vice-president of the Tee\u2019d Off at Breast Cancer event. \u201cIt was the ability to give back to the community and, hopefully, nobody else will have to go through what she did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/indicator-big.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The $52,372\u00a0raised at last September\u2019s event was donated to the BC Cancer Foundation and its campaign to raise $5 million\u00a0for the new Kamloops cancer centre, which is expected to open to the public in 2028.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe impact of this donation really is incredible. Patients undergoing breast cancer and other cancers, over 50 per cent of patients require radiation treatment during their cancer diagnoses. Currently, BC Cancer delivers radiation treatment in Kelowna,\u201d said Mischa Mueller, executive director with BC Cancer Foundation for the Interior and North. \u201cThe new BC\u00a0Cancer Kamloops Centre will be an incredible addition to this community to deliver cutting edge radiation treatment right here at home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Full details about the event can be found here \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.teedoffatbreastcancer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">https:\/\/www.teedoffatbreastcancer.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cUnfortunately, my wife succumbed to breast cancer, coming up on two years (ago) now, and this was an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-440047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440047","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=440047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}