BANGOR, Maine (WABI) – Golfers teed off at Bangor Municipal Golf Course to help the Northern Mild Jap Maine Medical Middle’s Kids’s Miracle Community Hospitals Program within the Summer season Traditional Fore Maine Youngsters event.
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“Immediately is a superb day to come back on out and lift cash for youths and to boost consciousness for the kids’s providers that Jap Maine Medical Middle has for pediatrics. We actually need to ensure that youngsters who want the care have the care as near residence as Bangor,” mentioned Kelly Pearson, Northern Mild Jap Maine Medical Middle’s Kids’s Miracle Community Hospitals Program Director.
There’s loads of actions across the course.
“We’ve obtained placing and different on-course contests. Persons are simply out right here having a good time. We’ve obtained a bit child out right here making root beer floats in the present day. She herself has been a affected person on the hospital. She is aware of what it’s wish to be up on our eighth flooring at Jap Maine Medical Middle, so she’s right here reminding folks what they’re enjoying for in the present day,” mentioned Pearson.
Bangor Financial savings Financial institution is the title sponsor together with many useful, native organizations.
“We’ve had plenty of sponsors in the present day which are making this potential with tons of golfers and volunteers. There’s tons of nice silent public sale objects. There’s a grill. There’s a drill set. There’s tons of various present playing cards from native companies, eating places, you identify it. The help has been completely unbelievable from so many individuals locally,” mentioned Pearson.
The occasion’s a enjoyable method to fundraise.
“We couldn’t have picked a greater day. That is simply a completely attractive day for golf and attending to spend it with so many individuals who care a lot. Even when they’re simply out right here {golfing} and don’t essentially have a connection to the trigger, they’re making an enormous distinction within the lives of youngsters,” mentioned Pearson.
Match proceeds helped the one Maine hospital North of Portland with a full-service pediatrics program.
The cash raised throughout the occasion “will assist to buy life-saving therapies and extremely specialised medical gear, fund superior coaching for workers, analysis, help for households who weren’t anticipating a hospital keep, and a few enjoyable extras to make a toddler’s keep a bit extra comfy,” in response to occasion organizers.
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