A Good Excuse To Play A Round Of Golf
Charitable organizations that traditionally hold benefit dinners and auctions in the fall and winter months are increasingly leaning toward summertime golf tournaments to supplement the funding to carry on their programs. The success of these events can be attributed in part to the increasing popularity of the sport, a fact not missed by savvy organizers.
Fore for Ogden Hall
The Southwest Airlines/98 KISS-FM golf classic to benefit Ogden Hall will be next Sunday at the Fairways Golf Course. The format is four-person, best ball. The $45 entry fee includes a barbecue and trophy presentation following the tournament. A hole-in-one prize worth $10,000 and prizes for longest drive and closest to the pin are also available.
Last year’s event raised more than $8,000 for Ogden Hall, a shelter for women and children. Contact Mark Holman at 459-9800 for additional details and to register.
Scholarship scramble
The fifth annual golf scramble to benefit the Miss Spokane Scholarship Program will also be next Sunday at Esmeralda Golf Course. It’s a four-player scramble format with tee times beginning at 7 a.m. The $35 entry fee includes greens fees, a barbecue dinner and door prizes. Awards will be given for low gross and low net scores as well as closest to the pin and longest drives for men and women. The event is limited to 120 players. Call Lee Schuster at 535-8627 for more information and entry forms.
Hot time in the old town …
Goodwill Industries of the Inland Northwest invites you to “A Night In New Orleans,” Sept. 30, at the Crescent Court in downtown Spokane.
Hundreds of items will be up for bid in silent and live auctions. A gourmet dinner is being been planned by executive chef Fred Small. The evening begins with the silent auction at 5, followed by dinner and music at 7. The loud auction begins at 7:30. The cost is $35 per person, or $270 for a table of eight.
The proceeds will help Goodwill’s vocational training programs. Reservations are due Sept. 25. Call 838-4246 for a reservation form.
Swing your partner
The Western Dance Association of Spokane will host its 39th annual Summer Square Dance Festival and Salmon Barbecue at the Western Dance Center on Sullivan Road, Aug. 25 to 27.
Square dancers come from all over the country for this popular event. The public is invited to the salmon barbecue, noon to 4 p.m., Aug. 27. Cost is $7.50 for adults, $6 for seniors and $5 for children, 12 and under. Free entertainment will be from 2 to 3 p.m. Call 927-1111 for more information.
Elvis has not left the building
Today is the last day for the Rock-N-Roll Weekend sponsored by the Easter Seal Society.
From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Argonne Safeway there will be 50-cent hot dogs, $1 German sausages and $1 root beer floats. Oldies 101.1 FM will have a live radio remote and there will be food booths, a classic car show and pizza-eating contests.
And - Elvis, backed up by Men in the Making, will perform during a parking-lot concert from 1 to 3.
Last summer, $20,000 was raised for Easter Seal programs that help Spokane children, teens and adults with disabilities.
Poet returns home as speaker
Mona Lake Jones, a former Spokane resident and a nationally known poet, will be the keynote speaker for the YWCA’s World Mutual Services luncheon on Sept. 16 in the Comstock Room.
Jones now lives in Seattle where she is the city’s multicultural poet laureate. A writer, teacher, lecturer and performer, Jones, a Lewis and Clark High School graduate, gained a national following through her poetry published in Essence Magazine and her book, “The Color of Culture.”
Tickets, $10, can be purchased at the YWCA’s front desk or by calling 326-1190 with a bank card. Seating is limited.
Proceeds from this event will benefit the YWCA’s World Mutual Services Committee which works to provide women and their families basic human rights in countries around the world.