Golf Tourney To Support Local Resident & NTAF

BERLIN –

The Ocean City Elks Golf Associates is hosting a golf tournament Saturday, August 16 to benefit the National Transplant Assistance Fund and local resident Ann Kerns Bowley.

Bowley, a 47 year-old wife of a member of the Ocean City Elks, recently underwent a 17-plus hour organ transplant operation at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in February of this year. She received four donor-organs with the cost of the operation exceeding $2.5 million. Some of that cost was covered by insurance and the NTAF assisted with the majority of the remaining expenses. Ann Bowley maintains a “let’s get on with it” attitude despite enduring her complex gastrointestinal illnesses for the past nineteen years. Ann managed to raise a family, build a business, care for a home and be a good friend and neighbor.

The fund-raising golf tournament will be played at the Ocean City Golf Club Saturday, August 16 with a shotgun-start at 1 pm. It will be a Captains Choice format with a capacity of 144 players. The entry fee of $100 per person or $400 per team includes golf and dinner.

After golf, there will be a an awards dinner/dance at the Ocean City American Legion on 24th St. The food is being catered by St. Germain’s Catering Company and features a choice of beef, seafood and chicken. There will be many door prizes and numerous silent and live auction items.

Organizers are seeking golfers as well as sponsors. For further information, contact Larry VanSickler (301) 213-9099 or (302) 988-1083 or send reservations to Larry Van Sickler, Elks Golf NTAF Fund, 13708 Sinepuxent Rd., Ocean City, Md. 21842..