'Fore the Children' A Big Success

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Manchester (BBBSGM) thanks the community for making the 2nd Annual Fore the Children Mini Golf Tournament a BIG success. The organization raised over $5,000 which will be used to match five new youth, or “Littles”, with a mentor, or “Bigs”, in the community. BBBSGM serves over 350 youth each year from the Greater Manchester and Concord communities. Without the support of many individuals, volunteers, local companies and sponsors this would not be possible.

A total of 44 mini golf teams came out to Legends Golf in Hooksett, NH to show their support and participated in this year’s event. BBBSGM Executive Director Katie Orlando thanked the Town of Hooksett and surrounding communities for all of their support. “We take a lot of pride in the one-to-one mentoring matches we provide around the state and it is always very encouraging to see the towns we serve come out and support our efforts in such a big way.”

BBBSGM Community Relations and Events Manager, Andrew Provencher was also thrilled with this year’s successful event. “Every time we have a successful event like this it is great to know that we will be able to directly support the formation of new mentoring matches. The continued support from all our corporate sponsors, event participants and volunteers was enormous and definitely the key to making our event into such a success.”

BBBSGM thanks Deerhead Sportsman Club, Rotary Club of Bedford, Howe, Riley & Howe, Hooksett Kiwanis, British Beer Company, Cityside Management, Stikeman Striping, CGI Employee Benefits Group, Elm Grove Property Management, Merchants Fleet Management and Baker and Newman and Noyes for their Hole and Hazard sponsorships.

Several companies gave in-kind to this event, including Puritan Backroom, The Common Man, Martignetti Companies of New Hampshire, Frito-Lay, Coca Cola of Northern New England, T-Bones, Mel’s Funway Park, Red River Theatre, The Capitol Center for the Arts, Crown Trophy, Cowabunga’s, RAMP Sports and Stop and Shop.

BBBSGM would also like to give a special thank you to Portland Pie Company for providing pizza to all mini golfers, DJ Greg Sowa for providing music and entertainment and Legend’s Golf for hosting the event. Several volunteers also help make the day a success, including groups from the Hooksett Kohl’s, SNHU Phi Delta Beta Sorority, Hillside Middle School Builders Club, and the Manchester Central High School Key Club.