Fry Foundation to host *@!%& golf tourney
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| May 26, 2011 |
Bright sunshine, green grass, glass surfaced
ponds. If you're wondering what these three
elements call to mind, the answer is golf, and
Mirror Lake Golf Course is calling on all you
duffers to join up with a teammate and take part
in this year's Fry Healthcare Foundation Golf
tournament, hitting the greens at 1 p.m. Friday,
June 17.
Team registrations are being accepted now, and
forms are available at Mirror Lake, Riverside
Auto and Boundary Community Hospital. The
deadline for registration, June 13, is fast
approaching, so don't delay!
Members of the Fry Foundation have pulled some
strings and guarantee with almost utmost
certainty that the weather will be good, and
they're asking everyone who participates to show
up at 12:30 p.m. to sign in prior to tee-off.
This year, the Fry Golf Tournament will follow
their very own version of the Ryder Cup format,
adding a new twist to best ball scramble play.
You can enter as an individual or in a
two-person team. The 3x6 tourney will consist of
those entering as teams to play six holes of
"Best Ball," six holes of "Scramble," and six
holes of "Scotch Play," in honor of those crazy
Scots who devised the idea of hitting a little
ball, with a bent stick, into a little tiny hole
far, far away ... not once, but 18 *@!%& times!
It promises to be a fun event, and you don't
have to wear a kilt unless you want to.
There are several ways you can be involved,
whether you participate in this maddening sport
or prefer to stay on the sidelines. Fees are $75
per player or $150 per team, or you can choose
to become a sponsor; $800 for Eagle, $500 for
birdie, $250 for par or $100 for bogie. Any way
you choose to participate, your contribution
goes a long way.
Founded in 1994, the not-for-profit Fry
Foundation is dedicated to the support and
enhancement of excellent health care in our
community. In the last 17 years, this dedicated
group has raised over $850,000 to buy equipment
for our local hospital and nursing home, to
include two cardiac telemetry units, a CT
scanner, an anesthesia machine and a
handicap-friendly van for transporting nursing
home residents to the community events they
love.
Governed by a nine member board supported by
numerous dedicated volunteers, The Fry
Foundation has helped make Boundary Community
Hospital one of the finest local hospitals in
the region, providing the equipment and
expertise to enable our hospital staff to
provide services here that not so long ago would
have required a long trip south to bigger
facilities in Sandpoint, Coeur d'Alene or
Spokane.
In addition, the foundation is working to make
it easier for our local health care providers to
keep up with the never-ending educational
requirements necessary to maintain proficiency.
There's a non-descript little brown house just
west of the hospital employee parking lot, but
thanks to the Fry Foundation, its seeing a major
transformation. Over the last two years, the Fry
Healthcare Foundation has invested nearly
$40,000 to transform it into what will be the
Fry Education Center, a place where everyone
from EMTs to certified nurses to RNs to
physicians's assistants to doctors can train to
maintain the continuing education requirements
they must have to keep practicing in our
community.
The facility will feature a large classroom, a
mock patient treatment area, a computer lab and
an office for the nurse-educator.
The facility will make it easier for Boundary
County to attract and retain top-tier health
professionals. Completion of the project is
expected in late June or early July, and an open
house is being planned for the fall ... about
the time we should all be gearing up for this
year's Fry Foundation Festival of Trees!
Last season, that event, the premier
fund-raising jewel in the foundation's
fund-raising crown, raised $25,725 to buy an
Apollo Advantage seated bathing system, plus
$6,275 to purchase an ArjoHuntleigh Sling Lift.
The Fry Healthcare Foundation would like to
thank those major sponsors who made the 2010
Festival of Trees such a spectacular success;
platinum sponsor Boundary Computer, silver
sponsors Yellowstone Insurance, RRG, and Dean
and Ruth Miller, bronze sponsors Panhandle State
Bank and Akins Harvest Foods, and copper
sponsors Cherokee Farms, Oriental Garden and
Selkirk General Surgery.
Thankfully, Festival of Trees sponsors are
easier to identify for their levels of support
than those of the upcoming golf tournament.
They're all named after metals, unlike the
sponsorships named after the various names given
to scores in that infernal game, *@!%&, golf. |
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