{"id":833431,"date":"2026-07-29T10:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T10:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/833431\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T10:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T10:17:10","slug":"rose-of-hope-golf-fundraiser-reaches-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/833431\/","title":{"rendered":"Rose of Hope golf fundraiser reaches milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a69812bc2b4a.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Photo: Ken Hashizume<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            The event has surpassed the $4 million mark after raising close to $400K this year.<\/p>\n<p>Mother nature had a hand in another successful Rose of Hope golf fundraiser.<\/p>\n<p>The rain that was forecasted for much of Tuesday held up enough to get the more than 140 golfers on the course at Cataraqui Golf and Country Club in Kingston.<\/p>\n<p>The day began with a proclomation from the City&#8217;s Town Crier, Chris Whyman. Then it was a day of fun and golf, ending with a dinner and prizes.<\/p>\n<p>Chair Sherri McCullough says the money raised from this year&#8217;s event will go towards a pair of breast cancer research initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>It was announced at the end of the evening that $390,000 was raised enabling the event to surpass the $4 million mark. $4.2 million has been raised in the 29 years of Rose of Hope.<\/p>\n<p>McCullough says so much has been raised for breast cancer research and it has made a difference for patients in Kingston and Eastern Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last year&#8217;s event raised $285,000 for an MRI machine at Breast Imaging Kingston.<\/p>\n<p>McCullough says that means more woman will be able to get screened so that docotrs can detect any cancers early.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>Story by Ken Hashizume<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Ken Hashizume The event has surpassed the $4 million mark after raising close to $400K this year.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":833432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-833431","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\/833431","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=833431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}