September 11, 2006

Union Tournament Scores Big for Charity

The fourth annual CEP Manitoba Spina Bifida Charity Golf Tournament raised more than $10,000 yesterday to help support families living with Spina Bifida and or Hydrocephalus.

Union members, management and a few lawyers played together on a beautiful day at Lasalle’s Kingswood Golf and Country Club to raise awareness of Spina Bifida and $10,986.37.  80 golfers enjoyed the warm fall weather and helped raise money through registration fees, prize holes and sponsorship of holes.

CEP and Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus Association of Canada (SBHAC) would like to thank all who supported and participated in the tournament, including the CEP Locals, companies and law firms who sponsored holes and offered prizes to the golfers.  Thanks also to the staff at Kingswood who made the day enjoyable and successful.  CEP and SBHAC invite everyone to return to next year’s tournament for even greater success.

SBHAC works on behalf of people with spina bifida and/or hydrocephalus and their families. Spina Bifida is the number one birth defect in Canada.  Spina Bifida is where the spine does not form completely and often leads to hydrocephalus, where the normal cerebral spinal fluid draining patterns in and around the brain and spinal cord are interrupted.

The CEP represents more than 5,000 workers Manitoba-wide in telecommunications, media, energy and printing.  Union members (plus their lawyers from Myers Weinberg and Tapper Cuddy!) and managers from workplaces such as MTS, the Winnipeg Free Press, Datamark Systems, CHUM Radio, Manitoba Hydro (Natural Gas), American Income Life, and Cascades Boxboarding Inc. played or volunteered in the tournament.

For more information contact:            
Wendy Sol, CEP at (204) 988-1402
Andrea Salmon, Spina Bifida at (204) 925-3653