For Immediate Release: Charity Golf Tournament Attracts LPGA
Pros, Raises $19,900 for New Generation Shelter and Next
Generation Daycare
Wednesday, September 27,
2006 (Greenland, NH)—The 3rd Annual Women
Supporting Women Charity Golf Tournament raised $19,940 to
benefit New Generation, a shelter for homeless pregnant and
parenting women with young children, and Next Generation
Daycare and Preschool. LPGA Golf Pros Nancy Henderson,
Teresa Zamboni, and Alexis Sieg were working guests at the
event held September 18th at Breakfast Hill Golf
Club. Chairperson Beverly Barney of Exeter invited the pros
and attracted 99 players to participate in the ladies-only
event.
“Having the pros
here brought the tournament to a whole new level,” said
Barney. “I am thankful for all the help we received from the
LPGA ladies who volunteered their time to raise more money
for New Generation.”
All proceeds support the shelter and its counseling,
parenting education, nutrition and life skills training,
transportation and aftercare programs, as well as its
service, Next Generation Daycare and Preschool.
This year’s
donors were $10,000
Hole-In-One Sponsor: The Barrows Family;
$1,000 gold sponsors: The Ford
Family, Friends of New Generation; $500 Silver Sponsors:
Bell & Flynn, Inc., Fisher Scientific International, Inc.,
John & Marilyn Flynn, Secondwind Water Systems,
Together in HIS Name; $250 bronze sponsors:
Waste Management, Inc., New
England Homes, Anne M. O'Brien, The Graceffa Family matched
by Amgen Corporation, Heritage Storage Center, Inc.,
Wheelabrator Technologies, Inc., Bayside Distributing, Inc.,
Paul Neveu of BPA-Harbridge; $100 Hole sponsors: Quayle
Congdon Real Estate, Exeter Hospital, Bernier Corp., Anne M.
O'Brien, Aggie & John Dowd, Jeanne DePiano, The Rosa
Restaurant, SeaWise, Inc., Brian & Kathy Maxwell-Fitzgerald,
Jack & Joanna Doykos, Marie Wildes, Natalie Healy, Judy
Sullivan, Gary Blake Saab, Sharyl Rubin, and Portsmouth
Regional Hospital. Silent auction items and raffle gifts
participants were: Friends of New Generation, Sandy Scovell,
Wentworth By the Sea Country Club’s Pro Gordon Swennes, Peg
Johnson Quilts, Barbara Blinn, Portsmouth Country Club Pro
Shop, Exeter Country Club’s Doug Indelicato, Long’s
Jewelers, Proulx Oil, Georgeann Wier,
Memories Studio,
Cookies By Design, Attrezzi, Elizabeth Grady Face First,
Strawbery Banke Museum, American Independence Museum, Acorns
Restaurant, Portsmouth Regional Hospital Wellness
Connection, Dot's Flower Shop, The Green Bean, The Exeter
Inn, Li Yuen Chinese Culinary, Rejuvenations Professional
Massage and The Meat House. Mini massages were given to all
players by Karen Drelick of Rejuvenations Professional
Massage in Exeter.
New Generation Shelter houses
seven women and their children at a time, providing
counseling, teaching parenting education, nutrition, job
skills and life skills. Residents are driven to partnering
agencies for housing, health and social service
appointments, work, and education classes. Other services
include: Second Generation Thrift Shoppe and Furniture Barn
on Route 33 (all proceeds help pay for shelter operating
expenses), and Next Generation Daycare and Preschool, which
provides full-time daycare to 18 children, and has Title XX
slots for low-income families.
For further info, email
fundraising@newgenerationinc.org, call 603-436-4989, or
visit
www.newgennh.com.
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