CASE 'N DRUM OIL 5th Annual Charity Golf Tournament

On Monday July 19, 2010 C'ND hosted our 5th Annual Charity Golf Tournament and for the first time we had absolutely no rain!!


We had 71 golfers who participated in a day of golf, games, draws and a fantistic silent auction!


The charities that we support are the London Health Sciences Foundation London Regional Cancer Progam and the Children's Health Foundation supporting the Children's Hospital of London. The reason that we have chosen these charities is because many of our own staff and their families have required the services of both Foundations! In fact,since I began working at C'ND I am the 5th person related to the company (3 employees 2 family of employees) who have been diagnosed with Cancer and have required the services of the London Regional Cancer Program (LRCP). That's one person per year as I've only been there 5 years!!! AND one very special little girl of a co-worker has seen a lot of the Children's Hospital....and I'm sure that many other of our staff have used the services of the CH as well! We as Londoners are very lucky to have both of these facilities right in our backyard! I know that I feel blessed to live in this city!!


Okay....back to the tournament! For our charities we were able to raise $17,000.00!! This total will be split evenly between the two. On top of the $8,500.00 that the Cancer Clinic will receive our parent company, UPI Energy, donated another $2,000.00 (raised through their golf tournament in May of this year) in my name. How humbling it is...it makes me very proud to work for such an awesome company!


About a month before the tournament two of our salesmen...one being my husband and the other our friend...made a pack. The vowed to dye thier hair pink and collect donations that would go toward our donation to the LRCP. Both of them had a personal goal they wanted to reach, Ben wanted to raise at least $1000.00 and Paul wanted to raise at least $2,500.00. I created each of them a pin to wear that read "Ask me about my Pink Hair" and a Pledge Form to recored their pledges. From the first time they wore the pins it was evident that this was going to be a wildly successful fund raiser! Within the first few days Ben had recieved over $100.00 in pledges and Paul (who started a few days later) raised $200.00 within his first few days! We were all very excited about this progress.....and they hadn't even dyed their hair pink yet, they were just wearing the pin!! On the Friday afternoon before the tournament Paul headed down to Moda Fina to see the only person he trusts with his hair, Miranda Cooke, to have it dyed pink. Ben headed to his favourite salon to do the same on the Saturday. What a pair they made at the tournament on Monday!!!


Here they are sitting on the hole-in-one prize custom golf cart....
Don't they look hot!



During the banquet portion of the evening (with Ben as MC...pretty in pink!) it was revealed that they together had raised $5,000.00!! Ben surpassed his goal of $1,000.00 to raise $2,000.00 and Paul surpassed his goal of $2,500.00 to raise $3,000.00!! What a great team they make and all because they love me!! Thanks guys!! And the LRCP thanks you too!


As the evening wound down and everyone was paying for their silent auction items and saying their good byes Paul had his pretty pink hair shaved off by, of course the only one he trusts, Miranda who graciously offered to come and take care of for him. She shaved it in to a Mohawk first (he was totally jealous of mine!) and then I got to shave off the rest! I guess if it's just coming off anyway he trusted me to do it! Ben had received a sizeable donation from a customer who wanted to see the pink hair, however this customer was unable to come to tournament and told Ben he'd have to keep it until he was able to get out to see him again....in a month! So, Ben gets to keep his until that time. It certainly took some getting used to when I saw it in the office for the first time, but once you get used to it, it starts to look normal!

This years planning committee and volunteers were all awesome! All of you made this very easy and I can't wait to work with you again next year!!!

So that's it! We raised a lot of money and had a great time doing it!!

Head shaving pics!
Mohawk!



Cool dude!

This was fun for me! Was it for you Paul?

All done! This is Miranda, she's the one who keeps him looking good!

Our first bald pic when we got home!