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The 20th annual St. Anthony Golf Classic, held on Monday, June 25, 2018 at the Carroll Country Club, generated an unprecedented amount for the hospital and its services – $76,575. Proceeds from this year’s Golf Classic are dedicated to St. Anthony cancer services. To date, more than $986,000 has been raised through St. Anthony’s annual golf outing for hospital projects, including cardiology services, cancer services, cancer endowment, pastoral care endowment, physician recruitment, emergency department, and healthcare scholarships.
“On behalf of St. Anthony Regional Hospital, I am honored and humbled by the outpouring of support our community members in the region and the state of Iowa have displayed through this year’s Golf Classic,” said Randal Hess, M.D., Radiation Oncologist at St. Anthony. “It is through a combination of community support and the skilled hands of our medical team members at St. Anthony that we can continue to advance the quality, compassionate cancer care services we offer locally. I am proud to serve the hospital and a community that contributes tremendously to this endeavor.”
Hole-in-one sponsors for this year’s event included: Carroll Cycle Center/Champion Ford/Motor Inn/Wittrock Motors, Haley Equipment/Olsen’s Outdoor Power/Rueter’s Red Power/Van Wall Equipment, Drees Company, Kimmes Country Stores, and Lenz Insurance & Real Estate. Social Sponsors were Carroll Dental Associates, ConvergeOne, DePuy/Raridon Associates, Des Moines Orthopaedic Surgeons, Mid-Iowa Insurance and Real Estate, Prenger’s Flooring America, Ragaller Drywall and Ruckus. Cookies BBQ and Pepsi were lunch sponsors. Courtesy Cart sponsor was QUARC by MEDarchon. Angela Tomka Photography of Carroll was the official event photographer.
A $10,000 Putting Challenge was co-sponsored by Carroll Broadcasting and Sharp Funeral Home. Carroll Hy-Vee provided a grand prize of $500 in Hy-Vee gift cards to the winning team and the last place prize was provided by Madame Mary.
Major sponsors for this year’s event were Avadyne Health, Badding Construction, BNP Paribas, Cassling Diagnostics, CDW, Cookies Food Products, Deloitte, Dorsey & Whitney, Drees Company, Electronic Sound Inc., Feld Fire/Feld Security, First Fiduciary Investment Counsel, Graham Construction, The Graham Group, Harris Associates, Iowa Heart Center, J.P. Flooring, Mediacom Communications, Medline, Neuberger Berman, Oak Ridge Investments, Shared Medical Services, St. Anthony Auxiliary, Stifel, Stone Printing and Office Supply, Voya, Western Iowa Networks, Wixted & Company, and Wold Architects and Engineers.
Co-chairs for this year’s Golf Classic were Brent Baumhover and John Weber. Other committee members included: Kyle Atkinson, Josh Axman, Tony Badding, Kurt Baumhover, Jennifer Grandgenett, Kim Hackett, Hope Hempstead, Kyler Ludwig, Pat Macke, Kevin Milligan, Jerry Mowrey, Brigit Pick, Ann Slechta, Kennedy Thomsen and Justin Yetmar.
St. Anthony would like to thank all the volunteers, committee members and prize and gift sponsors for making this event a tremendous success.