PEA RIDGE — The 18th annual Pea Ridge Golf Classic is set for Aug. 6 at Big Sugar Golf Courst.
The event, sponsored by the Pea Ridge Optimist Club, is the club’s biggest fund raiser of the year and is essential in helping the club help the youth in the community.
Open to all, the classic is set for an 8 a.m. start Saturday, Aug. 6, at Big Sugar Golf Course. Sponsorship and team signup sheets are available at the Big Sugar club house, Arvest Bank, Community First Bank or from any club member. As in past years, fees include breakfast, lunch and 18 holes of golf. There will be prizes for the top three flights, longest drive and closest to the pin as well as other door prizes.
The Pea Ridge Optimist Club is in its sixth year of serving the youth of Pea Ridge.
“Since chartering in 2005, we’ve helped thousands of children in the community,” said president Sandy Lasater. “Our goal is to help as many children as possible and we hope this year’s Golf Classic will helpus continue to serve Pea Ridge.”
Some of the recent recipients of the club include the seventh-grade class’ Rain Garden project, Heart and Sole (provides shoes and socks to children in need), academic and sports organizations as well as several community projects such as Freedom Fest and the Pea Ridge Mule Jump.
The club meets at 7 a.m. on the first and third Thursdays in the basement of the Presbyterian Church. To learn more about the Pea Ridge Optimist Club, call Lasater at 903-6795.
Optimist International is an association of more than 2,900 Optimist Clubs around the world dedicated to “Bringing Out the Best in Kids.” Adult volunteers join Optimist Clubs to conduct positive service projects in their communities aimed at providing a helping hand to youth.
Each Optimist Club determines the needs of the young people in its community and conducts programs to meet those needs. Every year, Optimists conduct 65,000 service projects and serve well over six million young people.
Sports, Pages 7 on 07/27/2011