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!