This will mark the inaugural year of Swing Fore! Summer Camp at Rustic Nine Golf Course, an event organizer Kim Hebert hopes will become an annual occurrence in the years to come. (Facebook/Rustic Nine Golf Course Par 3)

By Martin Martinson

Making an impact

Charity golf event will help send kids to camp

May 23, 2019 | 1:54 PM

Rustic Nine Par 3 Golf Course is hosting Swing Fore! Summer Camp, a charity golf event June 9, designed to help send kids to camp.

All proceeds from the event will be used to send six youth from the Battlefords Boys and Girls Club to attend one week of summer camp at Camp Whitesand.

Kim Hebert, a committee member with Battlefords Seventh-Day Adventist Church, said the idea of a golf charity fundraiser came about organically, while out on the golf course along with her husband and some friends last year.

“We were out last summer golfing at Rustic Nine [when the idea occurred],” Hebert said. “We just thought there are a lot of people in our community that enjoy golfing, and enjoy supporting the Boys and Girls Club, and so we just sort of paired the idea together.”

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Hebert believes the prospect of helping send kids to camp that may not otherwise have the opportunity, is something she views as having the potential to make a large impact on the lives of the youth.

“The youth that attend the Boys and Girls Club are not necessarily youth that would have an experience like this on their own,” she said. “For myself, attending summer camp was one of those very nostalgic times in my life, and I still remember it to this day.”

With 64 people eligible to participate in the event, registration for the afternoon on the links is open now.

Registration includes nine holes of golf, a meal and prize entry. Tee times are 9 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 12 p.m., and 1:30 p.m. with 16 golfers per tee time.

With over 15 local businesses serving as sponsors, Hebert said the traction gained by the event in its inaugural year just goes to further exemplify the support system of the Battlefords community.

“[The support] is just what we’re used to seeing in our community,” Hebert said. “When there’s a need these businesses never fail to step up. It just speaks to how important our community finds these charities around town.”

More Information on the event, and online registration is available here.

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