{"id":864749,"date":"2026-08-20T07:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T07:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/864749\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T07:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T07:58:09","slug":"osprey-links-golf-gala-raising-money-for-local-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/864749\/","title":{"rendered":"Osprey Links Golf Gala raising money for local healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Healthcare is a combination of some of your own money, a lot of federal government and provincial government money, and fundraising, so we’re doing our part’<\/p>\n

One of the most important fundraising initiatives for the North Bay Regional Health Centre Foundation took place on the golf course Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 2026 Osprey Links 28th annual Golf Gala was a sold-out tournament; proceeds are supporting the purchase of an additional ultrasound machine and upgrades to X-Ray and fluoroscopy at North Bay Regional Health Centre.<\/p>\n

“This is our biggest golf tournament throughout the summer, and we’ve got more than 150 golfers out today,” explained Tammy Morison, President of the North Bay Regional Health Centre Foundation.<\/p>\n

“What’s really significant about today is that all funds raised will count toward our community matching gift challenge from FDC Foundation. FDC Foundation is helping us with a half-million-dollar donation. We’ll match the next half a million dollars, two to one, for the diagnostic imaging upgrade, which is three complete renovations and new installations of X-Ray equipment, a mobile C-arm, which is basically a mobile X-ray, two fluoroscopy suites, and an added ultrasound for our ultrasound department.”<\/p>\n

Morison added that philanthropy has always been a part of the community’s healthcare.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Healthcare has been a partnership between government funding and our hospitals’ budget, but what has the most impact is our community,” she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“And we have an opportunity to have advanced levels of care because of philanthropy. So we’re lucky to live in a very generous community. We know that some individuals and businesses are really interested in having an impact and making a difference for every single family in our community, and they’re doing that by supporting our hospital.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Former Premier Attended<\/p>\n

The event also includes North Bay native and former Ontario Premier Mike Harris, who started the Osprey Links charity fundraiser nearly 30 years ago.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

See related: Former premier Mike Harris attends Osprey golf gala. ‘I love being here’<\/a><\/p>\n

He partnered with his longtime friend Peter Minogue, who passed away in 2016.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“The late Peter Minogue\u00a0approached me way back 28\u00a0years ago and said, ‘ We want to have an official opening of the golf course, and we’d like to start with a charity event and supporting the community.’ We’ve done it for 28\u00a0years straight,” he said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

“So it’s kind of special for me, and it helps me remember Peter Minogue and all that he’s contributed to the community. So great day today, and we’re looking forward to it.”<\/p>\n

Harris also knows\u00a0what the funds raised do\u00a0for the local hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Yes, this is a big part,” said Harris, who was Ontario’s Premier from July 1995 to April 2002.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I think last year, we raised about 75 or 80,000. Hopefully, we do the same this year. We have been part of province-wide, maybe Canada-wide,\u00a0two-for-one funding. So that will contribute as well. Healthcare is a combination of some of your own money, a lot of federal government and provincial government money, and fundraising, so we’re doing our part.”\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘Healthcare is a combination of some of your own money, a lot of federal government and provincial government…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":864750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-864749","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\/864749","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=864749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}