This past June, approximately 50 golfers hit the links at Fredericton’s Carman Creek Golf Course in support of the Fredericton Real Estate Boards fifth annual charity golf tournament with proceeds going to support Special Olympics New Brunswick.
In 2003, the Fredericton Real Estate Board chose the Special Olympics as a charity they were interested in supporting. Over the past five years, the Fredericton Board has raised over $31,000 for Special Olympics New Brunswick – with $5,245 of it coming at this past tournament. This year, the Special Olympics are doing a tour of nine golf tournaments throughout the province and this year, the kickoff tournament belong to REALTORS®.
Contacting the local business community for team prizes, silent auction items and donations, organizing tee-off times and “hole sponsors” and assembling volunteers for the barbecue all needed to be done to help make the tournament successful once again.
Major sponsors such as Riverview Ford Lincoln Sales Ltd provided a car for a hole in one contest and Wilson Insurance provided a twenty thousand dollar cash prize for a hole in one. Shawn McDonald, a mortgage lender with Scotiabank, donated the food and manned the barbeque during the entire tournament. There were many other events including a putting contest, a fifty-fifty draw and a silent auction.
Pictured (left to right): Peter Atkinson, President, Fredericton Real Estate Board; Mike Doyle, Chair Publicity; and Joe Trevors, Executive Director Special Olympics New Brunswick.
