A long running golf tournament in the Windsor area could reach a milestone this year to support local cancer causes.
The 22nd annual Joe Hogan Memorial Golf Tournament is set for September 12, 2019 at Roseland, Sutton Creek and Ambassador and if it raises $43,000, it will have reached the million dollar mark.
The tournament is organized by the Hogan Brothers who lost their father to prostate cancer. Their mother later passed away from cancer as well and the Sherron Memorial Scholarship Fund was established.
This year's scholarship recipients were 18-year-old twins Anna and Monica Plante, whose parents were both diagnosed with cancer. Their mother survived breast and uterine cancer, but their father passed away from bladder and then bone cancer.
The scholarship helped the girls pay for tuition. They say it helped to alleviate some of the burden from dealing with their father's funeral and mourning his loss.
Anna Plante says it has been a crazy decade for the family.
"We haven't had a solid period of six months where there hasn't been somebody in our household undergoing cancer treatment," says Plante. "A few months of finishing that treatment, she (her mother) was diagnosed with uterine cancer and then within two months of finishing her treatment for uterine cancer, my father was diagnosed with bladder cancer."
Golf Tournament Organizer Dan Hogan is hoping to surpass the million dollar mark this year.
"Seven digits is something that you look for and the nicest thing about that million dollars is it all stays local, it is all here in our community and it doesn't go anywhere else, we are trying to help our community because our community is the one that is helping us," says Hogan.
The 22nd annual Joe Hogan Memorial Golf Tournament is slated for September 12, 2019 (Photo by AM800's Teresinha Medeiros)
The money supports the Windsor Cancer Centre Foundation and the Sherron Hogan Memorial Fund.
The foundation uses the funds on chemotherapy pumps, defibrillators, syringes and warming blankets.
In its first year, 92 golfers took part. Today, 432 golfers play in the tournament.