The Final Tally - And Final Hand Off

On August 2nd, 2010, I decided to organize the 2010 MelanOpen - a charity golf tournament to help raise money for the nasty cancer that my Pops had been diagnosed with earlier in the year.


On August 12th, 2010, Maples Of Ballantrae confirmed that October 2nd would be d-day. 


In the next couple of weeks, I roped in the following individuals to help make it all come together:

• Mike to help keep me sane and make sure all t's were crossed.
• Simon to help design the logo and help facilitate the production of our wonderful buttons, hats, banners and all things creative. 
• Jen Short to do photography. Kim Cranfield to be her driver and 2nd in command.
• Joann Vitug, Tyler Walker, Juliana Aristizabal, Shannon Curley, Anne-Marie O'Neill, Keera Jeschkeit and Melissa Grant to be the trusty volunteers and raffle ticket salespeople extraordinaire. 

In exactly 2 months, we raised a whopping $13,318 for The Sunnybrook Foundation, all money being donated towards Melanoma research specifically. We handed over the money to my Dad's Oncologist, Dr Teresa Petrella (as you can see, he's been in VERY good hands) - the final piece to the 2010 MelanOpen puzzle.  

David Simpson, Dr Teresa Petrella & Susan Simpson (newly brunette)

Thank you to all. Here's to 2011! 

The Pictures Have Arrived

Are you as excited as I am? 

Check out some snaps from the Big day and if anyone would like one printed, email me at: ssimpson@siriuscanada.ca 


All the credit goes to our wonderful Photographer, who not only donated her time, but her amazing skill at capturing what turned out to be my best day in 2010. Jen Short, we love you. 

Oh What A Day

Emotions ran high.

Temperatures ran low (veeeeeeeeeeeeeerry low).


But the day was a HUGE success (if I do say so myself) and we managed to persevere and have fun - in typical Simpson fashion. 


Thanks to all of you who played. Thanks to my lovely volunteers. Thanks to  Mike and Simon for keeping me sane. And for those  who want to rent Simon out for parties, bar mitzvah's and BINGO, his number is.... :)


This just in from our lovely photographer,  Jen Short, we'll have the photos up and live on the site before the weeks' end. 


From the MelanOpen team, a sincere thank you for your generosity and support. We're just finalizing numbers and will announce the final tally in the coming days. If you still want to donate, you can do so at the following link - MelanOpen Fundraising Page


Fondly,
Susan

Thank You To Our Sponsors

Hole In One

So if you're playing on Saturday, we have some pretty amazing prizes. If I do say so myself. 


The hottest item, by far, is a 2010 Chevy Camero. Red in colour, and man does this baby have some spunk to it. All you have to do is score a Hole-In-One on the 18th. It's185 yards for the Men, or 170 yards for the Women!

Aren't you glad you signed up?

Special thanks to Michael Carmichael at CITY BUICK for making it happen!