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Putting the “Green” in Golf
The Minnesota Rural Electric Association scored a hole-in-one Aug. 21 on the greens of the Whitebirch Golf Course in Breezy Point, as its Fourth Annual MREA Burn Center Benefit Golf Tournament raised some green for three burn centers.
(L-R) Toby Pearson, Tim Stabo and Lon Tekrony were on the winning team in the MREA Burn Center Benefit Golf Tournament. (Photo By: Carolyn Sampson)
With 92 golfers contributing a $100 fee and 46 hole sponsors $250 each, plus proceeds of a silent auction, the tournament raised about $14,000. NRECA sponsored a hole, as signified by an oversized golf ball along the course, and donated several hundred bottles of sunscreen. Kurt Kumlin, the statewide’s director of loss control services, said support of the burn facilities recognizes their vital function, including treatment of injured lineworkers.
“MREA recognizes a need to help support the centers with continuing education for the medical staff and the best technology to help make sure the lineworkers in Minnesota that experience these injuries receive the best treatment,” he emphasized.
A Regions Hospital Burn Center team of Toby Pearson, Tim Stabo and Lon Tekrony, a Traverse Electric Cooperative lineman who was treated at the center after suffering a voltage electrical injury in 2005, took first place honors.