June 29 Golf Event Will Help Vets

For the fourth straight year The Fallen Marines of Bridge Company and Herbert W. Best VFW Post 928 will hold a golf outing to benefit veterans of the tri-state area. 

All proceeds will go to the veterans or their survivors with a special portion being set aside for Cpl Russell "Rusty" Carter of Springfield who is paralyzed from the chest down from a Humvee crash in Afghanistan. 

was serving with the 101st Airborne Division.

The event is June 29 at Cobbs Creek Golf Club and starts at 8 a.m. Cost per golfer which includes a reception at Maggie O'Neill's Irish Pub in Drexel Hill is $110. This year's event also features a Upper Darby Fire Department ladder truck golf ball drop which has a $1,500 prize for the winner.

Those interested in participating should call Tim Kilgore at 610-656-0941 or Matt Crawford at 610-662-2080, or emailbridgecompanybravogolf@gmail.com. 

Excerpted from Bill Lawrence Online