Golf tourney raises $11k for city park effort

The Jess Ford Swing for the Good Golf Scramble was a huge success, said Run The Dam Executive Director Kelly Buche.

Seventeen teams competed at the Colville Tribes Banks Lake Golf Course Saturday, Sept. 7, for 18 holes on a beautiful end-of-summer day.

The top prizes of a new Ford F-150 and a five-day cruise were left unclaimed, but several tee shots came very close to making their mark for a hole in one, Buche said.

In first place with 13 under par was 155 Fades Barbershop. Team members Corey Cristman, Bud Seymour, Nate Krohn and Logan Bowman walked off with a four-pack of Gamble Sands Golf Package. Bowman also won the 50/50 raffle that raised $1140. He donated his $570 pot back to the cause.

Second and third places ended in an 11-under-par tie, resulting in a chip-off contest to determine placing. The Siam Palace team took the second-place spot, earning the team of Mark Piturachsatit, Jeff Piturachsatit, Joey Hendrickson and Randy Friedlander a four-pack of golf play at Desert Canyon. Team John Stensgar, Martin John, Gerald Dick and Mae Stensgar clinched the third-place prize of a four-pack round of golf at Bear Mountain Ranch.

Mark Gronlan won a $500 gift card and a box of balls for the closest-to-the-pin prize. For the longest putt Joe Vasquez took home a Blackstone grill. Other raffle prizes were gift cards, gift baskets, and wine.

Overall, the event netted $10,953.32 for Run the Dam fundraising efforts to help Electric City build their city park.