Photo submitted – Left to Right – Ray Lenarcic and Rudy Scialdo, President of the Lions Club.
The Greater Herkimer Lions Club is holding its 37th annual golf tournament on Friday, September 15th, at the Pine Hills Golf Course, 247 Jones Road, Frankfort, N.Y.
The event benefits the blind and visually impaired as well as many local charities, including the Herkimer County Hunger Coalition and Herkimer Elks Club Car Show.
The entry fee is $130 per golfer and includes the golf round, lunch, open bar, dinner, and awards. Contests and prizes include closest to the pin, long drive, and putting contest.
A hole-in-one gets you a new car donated by Steet-Ponte Chevrolet Inc. Registration is from 11:00 until noon, when the shotgun tee-off transpires.
Sponsorships include the following: Gold-$500; Silver-$325; Bronze-$140; Ad Book-$75.
Checks can be made out and sent to Greater Herkimer Lions Club, PO Box 171, Herkimer, N.Y. 13350. Deadline for sponsors is September 1st.
For additional information or to enter a team, call tournament chairman Rudy Scialdo II at 315-866-2011.
The event is also a celebration of Lions International’s 106th Anniversary in memory of Marine Lance Corporal David Mills from Mohawk, who was Killed in Action in Vietnam.