First annual a success

Times Reporter

 

Optimum Wellness Centres held their first annual golf tournament on Sept. 11. Approximately 30 golfers hit the greens and there were many volunteers helping pull things together. 

The tournament raised $2,000, which they have decided to donate to the Kiwanis Club. 

“This was a success and Kiwanis is going to get $2,000 out of it,” said Dr. Sean Stordy, who runs Strathmore’s Optimum Wellness Centre with his wife Nicole.  

“We had no control over what charity was being used or anything and by total fluke they decided to choose the Kiwanis because…one of the chiropractors was attached to that cause and so he decided that would be the benefactor of (this, our) first golf tournament and these guys (the Stordy’s) just so happen to be friends with Sandi and Cory (Johnson) who just so happen to be Kiwanis (members) and it just worked out so fantastic,” said Alicia Flint, a staff member at Strathmore’s Optimum Wellness Centre. 

The golf tournament is hopefully  just the first of many to come and everyone was happy with the end results of their first charity tournament. Because of the $2,000 the tournament raised, four kids will have an opportunity to go to Camp Kiwanis. Kids from Strathmore have never had the opportunity and this will be something new for them. The kids are found through social services in town, the schools or through personal knowledge. 

“I don’t think there’s ever been a struggle finding the kids, its just a matter of finding the most appropriate kids,” said Cory Johnson.