Golf Tournament Raises Funds For Health Care
Fore For Foundation
With improved local health care as a target, the 29th annual Northeast Montana Health Services Charitable Foundation’s benefit golf tournament was held on Saturday, June 20. The event is the foundation’s largest fundraiser of the year.
“It’s a beautiful day for golf,” executive director Brandi Wilkinson said on Saturday. “It’s a little breezy with nice temperatures.”
The tournament attracted 19 four-player teams. “It’s about average,” Wilkinson said of the turnout. “I think the most we’ve ever had was 23 or 24.”
The event usually nets about $7,000 for the foundation to be spent on local healthcare improvements. Among the list of items this year include two ICare tonometers for Poplar and Wolf Point’s emergency rooms and clinics, a paraffin wax bath and folding gymnastics mat for physical/occupational therapy, a calibrated digital thermometer for endoscopy operating room, a medical lab task chair for the Poplar laboratory and three Veto pro-took backpacks for the maintenance department in Wolf Point.
Other upcoming fundraisers planned by the foundation include Bucks for Bra this fall, selling pink candy during Stampede and selling pink drinks at coffee shops during October. All of those funds will go to the mammography department.
“We have a lot going on this year because it’s our 20th anniversary,” Wilkinson said.
Board members include chair Marjorie Youpee, vice chair Jonathon Thompson, secretary/treasurer Sandi Mason and directors Dolly Tattoo, Renee Goodman, Kelli Hackley, Ivy O’Connor and Tyrell Buckles.
