2024 Annual Golf Tournament

Health Foundation Bed Pan Open  

The 26th Health Foundation annual golf tournament was held last Thursday in picture perfect weather. The always sold out event featured  36 teams and this year for the first time there were six NHL alumni players and a retired NFL football player that were part of the event. On the Wednesday evening prior, participants in the tournament bid by live auction for the right to have one of them on their team.  Players Dana Murzyn, Joel Otto, Wayne McBean, Lindsay Carson, Dean Kennedy, Darcy Wakaluk, and Mark Rypien were all in fine form for this fun-filled evening.  When all was said and done the auction added a whopping $9800 to the foundation’s drive towards raising $50,000 this year.  The overall final number is not in yet but it is looking good for their goals this year. Amongst all that they support they have set their sights on much needed hospital equipment including ceiling lifts for Continuing Care and tub chairs. 

As always these tournaments have a whole raft of prizes for things like highest score team, longest drive, closest to the pin,hole’s in one and so on.  This year also featured a novel event called Aim for Alcohol. Players could stop at the putting green and for a fee try and putt golf balls to hit strategically placed bottles. If you hit one you got to keep it.    

The overall winning team featured Kent Strandquist, Gord Brecht, Darren Coloumbe, and Arther Desroches. The wrap up at the end of the day featured a prime rib dinner with raffle draws and silent auction items being announced.  Some of numbers that have been tallied so far are, 50/50 Draw-$845,Aim for Alcohol – $1225, Mulligans – $640, Hole # 3 – $910, raffle/wine table – $1900 and the silent auction – $3225.  One silent auction item was a beautiful and extremely rare Franz Koci painting donated by his daughter.  

The volunteerism that it takes to pull this event off is just amazing and demonstrates the foundation’s commitment and determination to enhance “the best of health for everyone. ”

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The 23rd Annual Crowsnest Pass Health Foundation Golf Tournament would have taken place on the 3rd Friday in June with over 100 participants from our community and across Southern Alberta coming out to support our local hospital. Until the unprecedented year 2020, we have never cancelled our tournament but did postpone it due to the flood in 2013. Although we cannot hold the usual event this year, we feel that it would be fun and healthy if everyone who enjoys the game to join our “Virtual CNP Golf Tournament” by playing a round of golf with family or friends during the month of June. We would like to share in your experiences so please e-mail a photo of your group to Joan.Koinberg@ahs.ca to be published in our upcoming CNP Health Foundation Newsletter. Over the years, as our largest fundraising event, the CNP Health Foundation Golf tournament has been generously supported by close to 100 sponsors.  Through their continued contributions and players supporting our event, the Health Foundation has been able to purchase important equipment such as a portable ultrasound machine, vital signs monitors, operating room equipment and Lifepak machines, all of which are used on a daily basis in our hospital. During the past months we all discovered how important our health care workers and well-equipped hospitals are to our families.  If you would like to continue to support our Crowsnest Pass Health Foundation Golf Tournament “virtually” you can do so by going to https:// www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/crowsnest-pass-health-foundation/. Include “CNP Health Foundation Golf 2020 Undesignated Funds” in the message box or you can mail a donation to Crowsnest Pass Health Foundation, Box 455, Blairmore, AB, T0K 0E0. Thank you for helping our CNP Health Care Centre. 

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Golfers from the Crowsnest Pass and all over southern Alberta come together for a great day of fun and fellowship each June.

Crowsnest Pass Golf & Country Club provides a challenging course with beautiful scenery
in the heart of Alberta’s Rockies.

Course staff and our Foundation volunteers ensure you enjoy your 18 holes and dinner, and our sponsors provide an array of great prizes for golfers (fun is always emphasized over competition).

The best part is, you’ll be helping the Foundation in our mission to provide enhancements that lead to “the best of health for everyone.” 

Our annual Kathy Allsop Memorial Golf tournament will be held every June at the Crowsnest Pass Golf Club.  For more information please contact Joan Koinberg at 403.562.5018.