June 18 golf tournament benefits House of Comfort
PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — The Aroostook ‘House of Comfort’ will host its fourth annual Golf Classic on Saturday, June 18, 2016 at the Presque Isle Country Club.
Proceeds will go towards the construction of a palliative and hospice care home. Last June, the Board of Directors began the final leg of this journey by purchasing the existing MBNA property at 18 Green Hill Drive in Presque Isle. It will be modified, added to and converted to become the beautiful new ‘House of Comfort.’
The Father’s Day weekend event is a four-person scramble and kicks off with a shotgun start at 9 a.m. Registration and check-in is from 7:30 a.m. to 8:30. An awards and recognition ceremony will be held at the club’s restaurant immediately following the tournament.
Formerly the Logan P. Graves Golf Tournament, this year’s Golf Classic challenge is partially underwritten by platinum sponsor, Whited Peterbilt.
This year’s tournament will include a tournament raffle and many door prizes. There are
several items donated of significant value, which will be raffled off in the clubhouse after the tournament during the awards presentation. Visit the Aroostook ‘House of Comfort’ website or go to its Facebook page to find out more information.
The fee of $60 per person provides golfers with a light breakfast, coffee, soda, hot dogs on the course, refreshments after the round and a Titleist golf ball. Cash prizes will be awarded to the top three men’s teams for both gross and net scores. First place is $440; second place is $360; and third place is $280.
There will be a mixed team division for the first 12 such teams to enter. The mixed team will pay up to three prizes depending on the number of teams that enter. The payoffs for the mixed division will go to first and second gross and first net, with the amounts paid the same as the men’s division.
Prizes will be awarded longest drive and closest to the pin for both men and women. A $10,000 prize, sponsored by North State Transportation, LLC, will be awarded for a hole-in-one.
“This Golf Classic is a wonderful way to raise money for a great charity that will help build a six-bed, state-of-the-art facility for terminally ill patients in their time of need,” said Rick Duncan, chairman and founder of the Aroostook Hospice Foundation.
There are three hospice facilities in Maine, located in Auburn, Scarborough and Rockport, all hundreds of miles from the County. Any family faced with an end-of-life situation will be offered a team of professionals who are readily accessible and who have received specialized training in hospice and palliative care and treat of these patients.
The facility will enable them to elect a hospice environment while remaining close to their familiar environment of family, friends, clergy and doctors who will provide the comfort and support so essential to their comfort in the final days of their lives. It will offer palliative care (active treatment as well as pain and symptom management) to those with chronic progressive illnesses with the focus shifting from cure to living with the disease.
For Golf Classic registration forms and pledge forms to support the Aroostook ‘House of Comfort’, please visit the website at www.aroostookhouseofcomfort.com or contact Duncan at (207)768-0201.
