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4th Annual Tournament - Spectacular!

Wonderful people, good golf, excellent food and fun made the 4th Annual Dean's Pharmasave & CEDA Reactor Mattawa Hospital Charity Golf Classic a resounding success once more!

The winners of this year's tournament were the Awesome Foursome, a team made up of Brian Leipert, Pauline Lafreniere, Norm Bradley & Angela Bradley with a wonderful -11 score. Well done! An amazing -9 on the front nine - wow! Brian & Paulie came in from Regina to play (although Paulie is from Mattawa) and the Bradley's joined us from Sudbury.

2006
Champions

The Awesome Foursome

Our only small drawback this year was that unfortunately, due to an unforeseen family emergency, Jeff Hutcheson could not make the event. Although he sent us his best wishes and encouragement and has promised us for next year! Thank you Jeff!

The cruise down Champlain Lake on Tuesday evening, proved to be exciting again this year with a fabulous welcome from Anne & Rick at L'Auberge des Pionniers. Along with the beautiful tasty snacks, Rick & Anne opened up their resort to 13 pontoons! The weather too co-operated by sending away the showers and bringing out the sunshine just as the flotilla set off. We then had the amazing talent of Wayne Junior performing his Tribute to Elvis in the beautiful setting of Lake Champlain. Elvis was in the house!

The wonderful cooking talents of Brigitte & Paul Duhaime prepared amazing ribs and chicken skewers, provided by Algonquin Nursing Home, and gorgeous salads, provided by Mattawa General Hospital. Well over 100 people enjoyed this great evening as a lead up to the golf tournament.

Golf on the Wednesday started with breakfast, provided by Mattawa General Hospital and the Algonquin Nursing Home, providing participants a chance to recant tales of the previous evening's entertainment. Those lucky enough to be playing in the tournament, as we still had a waiting list, then set off under the direction of CPGA professional, Jeff Mancini (North Bay G & CC Director of Golf) and his 2 assistants Boo & Matt. The weather again was sunny and warm for players to make some fantastic scores! Coming in a close 2nd this year with a -9 were the foursome of Paul Swindle, JC Belanger, Gary Lacelle & Dillon McGee - last year's champions The Mattawa Mights.

Of course this event has to thank Scott Clark for his many wonderful talents, including his golf skills. Players had a chance to beat Scott on hole #2 to win a sleeve of balls provided by Canon, along with a chance to win credit for "The Million Dollar Ball Drop" which will be hosted at The North Bay Golf & Country Club raising funds for Community Living. Another great cause. Mike Campbell was our winner for this gaining a $500 credit. Great shot Mike!

Again we had the great pleasure of having Nipissing MPP, Monique Smith return to play. She has been a staunch supporter of this event and we appreciate that, especially this year with encouraging things to say about the projected early start of the building of our new facility. We also had notaries such as Mayor Dean Backer (Mattawa), Mayor Bob Corriveau (Papineau-Cameron) along with our 2 Gold Sponsors Brian Chute (Dean's Pharmasave) and Brian Fitzmaurice (CEDA Reactor). Thank you for the incredible support!

One of Scott's specialties is to extract money (in the nicest possible way) from our players and guests for the wonderful auction items we receive in donations, and this year the live auction made an astounding $13,000! New this year was a great idea by Debbie Wilkins to have building blocks on the tables for the construction of a hospital. Every table got into this with conviction and wonderful imagination. Monique Smith, Scott Clark & Ted Darby went around to judge and decided that the Volunteer table topped the list!

Many of our players and guests traveled from all over to participate including Edmonton, Edmunston, Regina, Ottawa, Toronto, Sudbury, North Bay, Timmins, & Barrie.

Thank you to all the Sponsors, Honoured Guests and Players who made this day another amazing experience. A Special thank you to Diane McGee and her team of volunteers for the day and the young volunteers from MAYGA.