Stunning Silent Auction

Every year we host an exciting silent auction with fantastic items to bid on, thanks to the generosity of our community. This year is no different, and in fact, promises to be even better than last year!

Horseback riding in Montego Bay

Where would you go if you could fly anywhere WestJet flies? Las Vegas perhaps? How about Montego Bay? This is a question one of our lucky silent auction winners will have to ask themselves, because WestJet has generously donated a trip for two to anywhere they fly, which can be conveniently used out of the Waterloo Regional International Airport.

Stunning diamonds

Raffi Jewellers has also provided us with a beautiful diamond necklace valued at $2,200 seen in the photo to the right.

We already have other silent auction items that have started coming in, but you’ll have to wait until our next post to see what we will have available.  In the meantime, here’s a sampling of last year’s items to keep you guessing: Golfing for Four at Rebel Creek Golf Club, 500L Gas Card from Hogg Fuel with $50 Gift Card for A1 CarCleaning, Blackberry Torch 9800 Mobile Phone courtesy of RIM, and a Hot Air Balloon Ride for Two from CTV Southwestern Ontario.

Want your chance to bid? Call Rosalind at (519) 772-8787 x 225 or email today to book your foursome (individuals are also welcome!)

Our Annual Golf Tournament is Almost Here! Want to Know More?

Spring is around the bend, and with it comes our annual ‘Drive to Deliver’ Golf Tournament in support of Community Support Connections - Meals on Wheels and More. Taking place the second Tuesday of May, it is often the first charity golf tournament of the season, and thus, one of your first opportunities to golf while supporting a great cause!

Our golf tournament will once again be hosted at Rebel CreekGolf Club on Tuesday May 8^th, 2012. We are happy to share that we have already arranged some exciting golfer gifts, which include a $30 gift certificate for either King Crab Oyster Bar and Grill or King Street TrioUptown, and your choice between a Collapsible Cooler Bag, or a Cargo Bag courtesy of Christie Digital. We are also hard at work lining up some exciting silent auction items, a preview of which we will include in our next blog post. I’ll give you a hint though, one item involves an airplane!

Whether it is as an individual, or a foursome, all of our golfers will enjoy a delicious lunch courtesy of Piller’s, 18 holes of golf, cart, roast beef dinner, and lots of fun challenges, including our ‘Hole-in-One’ challenge where the winner can walk away with a brand new car, courtesy of Heffner Lexus Toyota.

Every year we host this tournament to support our ‘Meal Subsidy Program’, which helps to subsidize needed meals for low income seniors and adults with disabilities in our community. We depend on fundraising and generous donations from the community to meet the needs of some of our most vulnerable neighbours. Last year’s tournament raised enough to subsidize the delivery of 16,000 meals for low income clients.

Individual golfers are only $175, and a foursome is $700. There are also sponsorship packages that include golfing as well, which you can learn more about from our “Sponsorship Package” link. If you are interested in golfing at or sponsoring this sell-out tournament, be sure to call Rosalind at (519) 772-8787 x 225, or email her at rosalindh@communitysupportconnections.org today. (This tournament routinely sells out, and spots do fill fast, so call today.)

Record breaking year!

Thanks to all 51 sponsors that signed on for this year's Tournament we raised almost $37,000, enough to subsidize 16,000 meals for low income seniors and adults with disabilities.  We had great golfers come out to support us, and they bid on our silent auction to bring in over $3000 on the auction alone.  Special thanks to BLM Transport for sponsoring dinner, and to Blair Fingland- TD Waterhouse Investment Advisor, our wine sponsor, who also volunteered for the day helping to sell 81 passports raising an additional $1620!
Our golfers loved the jackets and gift cards provided by Christie Digital and King Crab Oyster Bar and Grill, and we would like to thank everyone who came out.  Neil Aitchison graced us with his beauty as our dinner program's emcee, and we hope he's back again next year for some more laughs.
Thanks to Lawrence Bingeman, our committee's fearless leader, as well as Lori Bordessa, Kevin Mills, Dave Arjune and John Emrich.

Supporters Blair Fingland, Ted Scholzhauer, Dan Moore and Laverne Brubacher

Everyone Loves Gifts!

We are excited to announce King Crab Oyster Bar and Grill have once again generously supported our Drive to Deliver Golf Tournament with the donation of a $25 gift card for each and every golfer who comes out to our tournament.

This year, as a special treat, we are also giving these gorgeous golf jackets as an additional thank you.  Thanks to Christie Digital for donating the jackets, which will help keep our golfers warm and dry this year, no matter the weather!

Thank you to our Sponsors for their Overwhelming Support

We are fortunate to have another fantastic group of sponsors to thank for their support of our annual 'Drive to Deliver' Golf Tournament:

Also, don't forget to register your team right away. One month to the event and we are almost at our limit for golfers! To register, simply print and fill-out a PDF version of our golf brochure (link in the top left corner), or call Rosalind Horne at (519) 772-8787 x 225. 

Platinum Sponsors:

• SafeGard Medical International

Bronze Sponsors: 

• Bast Tire & Auto Service
• Conestoga-Rovers & Associates Ltd.
• Cowan Insurance Group
• Custom Leather
• Nelco Mechanical
• Sandvine Incorporated

More Sponsors to Thank!

Here is another round of sincere appreciation for our amazing sponsors. This golf tournament is a huge success every year because of the support of great organizations like these who have already signed on as sponsors for 2011:

Platinum Sponsors:

·         Arjune Engineering & Manufacturing Inc.

·         Twin Cities Dry Storage

Bronze Sponsors:

·         Albrecht Reinforcing Inc.

·         Ball Service Group

·         Caudle's Catch Seafood Ltd.

·         Coldwell Banker Peter Benninger Realty

·         Henry Walser Funeral Home

·         Zehr Group

·         MTE Consultants Inc.

·         Miller Thomson

Thank you again sponsors! All money raised from this golf tournament goes to our meal subsidy program, which helps us provide needed food to low income seniors and low income adults with disabilities in our community.