Newton Community and Healthcare Foundation: What's New

Newton Ccommunity and Healthcare Foundation

Golf Tournament Grants & Awards

Proceeds from Newton Community & Healthcare Foundation's Ninth Annual Benefit Golf Tournament in May have netted grants totaling $11,000 for area not-for-profit organizations.

Grant recipients include:

Newton Medical Center Women's Center: $9,000
Leave a Legacy: $1,000
Central Homecare & Hospice: $500
Health Ministries of Harvey County: $500

Silver sponsors, those contributing $1,000 or more to the tournament, included Adrian & Pankratz, P.A., Central Care Cancer Center, Emergency Services of Kansas and First Bank of Newton.

Bronze sponsors, those giving between $750 and $999, were American Express / Michael Petitjean, Axtell Orthopedics, Dr. Charles Isaac, Dr. Stephen Cranston, Norma and J. Wendell Wiens, Ikon Office Solutions, The Newton Kansan, Great Plains Imaging, LLC, and Jane Lee Communications, Ltd.

Play results are as follows:

Teams

Championship team (score of 59): Mel Schadler, Rick McKinney, David Weaver and Scott White
Second-place team (score of 60): Dan Spinder, Paul Nelson, Larry Schmidt and Mike Riffel
Third-place team (score of 60): Terry Davidson, Stuart Hamilton, David Burns and Floyd Sowers
Ninth-place team (score of 66): Dee Horne, Brad Horne, Carl Freeman and Carla Shepherd

Drives:

Ladies' longest drive: Len Prentiss
Men's longest drive: Bernie Cunningham
Straightest drive: Dee Horne
Longest putt: Norman Critchfield
Closest to pin: Rick McKinne

Prizes:

Cobra driver: Dick McCall
Kansas City Sheraton Suites Escape: Brad Horne

To date, area not-for-profit organizations have received more than $70,000 in grants raised by the golf tournament.