{"id":884392,"date":"2026-09-05T14:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T14:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/884392\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T14:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T14:34:09","slug":"golf-tournament-raises-over-72k-for-ck-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/884392\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf tournament raises over $72K for CK charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the wet weather, two programs run by FreeHelpCK will get a major boost following a local golf tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth annual Working the Iron in Memory of Henry Heyink Golf Tournament took place on Thursday, raising $72,571.<\/p>\n<p>Geri Ann Hughson of FreeHelpCK says the tournament managed a few rounds before golfers got rained out by major storms rolling through the area.<\/p>\n<p>Working the Iron is put together by Henry Heyink&#8217;s daughters Karen, Rebecka, Sarah, and Amy, who choose a local charitable organization to donate to in his name. Past recipients of the tournament include the Alzheimer Society of Chatham-Kent and VON Home and Community Care.<\/p>\n<p>This year, FreeHelpCK&#8217;s Senior Hope Meals and Adopt A Senior programs will get the financial boost.<\/p>\n<p>The Senior Hope Meals program delivers home-cooked meals to over 250 seniors, every Monday and Thursday, as well as on holidays such as Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n<p>The Adopt A Senior Program sees volunteers deliver a festive turkey dinner and gifts to seniors on Christmas Eve. The initiative aims to make sure no one is forgotten during the holiday season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite the wet weather, two programs run by FreeHelpCK will get a major boost following a local golf&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":884393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-884392","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\/884392","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=884392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}