Students seek sponsors for golf tourney

Justin Seward
Times Reporter

 

Standard School’s Grade 9 class is stepping up to help fundraise for the new East Wheatland School by hosting the ENCANA-Play for a Reason Golf Tournament that’s now actively looking for sponsors.
The class sent out approximately 400 letters to different businesses last week explaining the benefits and responsibilities when sponsoring an event.
“We’re trying to teach the kids to take some ownership and pride in their new school,” said Greg Lendvay, co-organizer with his students.
Sponsorship is $500 a hole and as a main sponsor, ENCANA invested $5,000. Students will have the opportunity to express their appreciation for the support of their new K-12 school.
“We’ll have Grade 9’s on every hole and they’ll be shaking the golfer’s hands and say ‘thank you’ for sponsoring our new school … and doing some golf talk too,” said Lendvay.
He added that they have already started searching for local sponsors, but continue to encourage the students to broaden their horizons and go everywhere possible for silent auction items and sponsors.
“We’ve started with some of the locals,” said Lendvay. “We’ve kind of gone a bit bigger than that. A lot of our parents and their parents do business or work for places outside of Standard that wouldn’t normally get involved in donating to the school that we’re trying to get to. A lot of agriculture kids, their parents, spend a lot of money at John Deere and Case, they’re bringing back money to the school.”
Sponsors who sign up before Oct. 30 will get special recognition when the player packages are sent out. Lendvay expects a half a dozen to meet the deadline and is hopeful 144 golfers will come out to participate. Registration is open until the day of the tournament.
The students are still looking for hole sponsors, cart sponsors, two food hole sponsors and two major silent auction items.
The fee is $250 per golfer. For more information, contact Lendvay at 403-934-5121 ext. 5433.
The tournament will take place on June 7, 2016 at Speargrass Golf Course.