What a great event on Friday 28th April. Well organised and managed by an excellent team lead by Alan Davies and Dennis Kavanagh, with help from a number of our members who gave up their day to be there. The weather was very kind and the Whitford Park Golf Course was in excellent condition, which provided good games and fun for all the participants. With the excellent support of many sponsors, especially Ray White Eastern Group as the major sponsor, thanks to Anton Huang and his team, the results have proven to be as good as could be expected. This being the first of hopefully many more annual charity golf days. The Rotary helpers on the day apart from Alan & Dennis, were Malcolm McLagan, Leslie McLagan (Highbrook Rotary), Penelope Franca, Del Johnston, Don Lawry, Roger Purdie, Kim Collins & Graham Kearns, who designed & produced, a rolling program for the in-house TV monitors. The primary recipient of the fundraising proceeds was St John, who had at least 2 of their team there all day including the only female to play the course on the day. The after-match auction was expertly conducted by Ben East from Ray White and was a lot of fun for the participants who provide much entertainment in bidding for the array of offers presented. All this culminated in presenting St John with an amount exceeding $25,000 dollars. A great effort by a small committee of Pakuranga Rotarians, at various times including Penelope Franca, Govind Pani, David Wardell, Peter Hawkins, Leslie McLagan, plus Stephen Robinson (St John) and Daniel Voykavich (Ray White). On the day the iDrive team look resplendent in their team shirts and caps with one of the team actually featuring in the prize list! |