Lakehead Public Schools Foundation event is one of the longest running charity golf tournaments in Thunder Bay. <\/p>\n
THUNDER BAY \u2013 Bruce Nugent dedicated a large part of his life to education.<\/p>\n
A long-time communications director at the Lakehead Public School Board, Nugent, who died in 2020, was a driving force behind the Lakehead Public Schools Foundation\u2019s annual golf tournament, which raises money to support educational initiatives throughout the city.<\/p>\n
Three years ago, tournament organizers decided to rename the event the Bruce Nugent Memorial Golf Tournament, an honour his son Aidan said would have made his father smile.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt helps kids in the system with their education and provides them with supplies and things that can make them successful,\u201d Nugent said on Monday, prior to the sold-out tournament teeing off at Whitewater Golf Course.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy dad put a lot of effort into this golf tournament every year and it means a lot to our family that his memory lives on. This tournament meant a lot to him and certainly the cause was near and dear to his heart.\u201d<\/p>\n
Money from the tournament also helps support the Grade 8 evening of excellence, honouring the best of the best in the public school system, and helps fund scholarships for Grade 12 graduates.<\/p>\n
Sherri-Lynne Pharand, the board\u2019s director of education, said the event is always fun, but the fact it helps the Lakehead Learning Foundation is the icing on the cake, providing things like a warm breakfast or a winter coat to students in need.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s important, she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen students are in school it\u2019s really important they have everything they need to be successful, whether that\u2019s a meal or a warm coat or an opportunity to participate in field trips. We know that not everyone has the same opportunity from home, so a big part of this foundation\u2019s role is to make sure we\u2019re able to provide all children with the same opportunity,\u201d Pharand said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lakehead Public Schools Foundation event is one of the longest running charity golf tournaments in Thunder Bay. THUNDER…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-99213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99213","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=99213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}