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For Immediate Release
Date:
May 12. 2005
Laurens Electric’s $1 Million Hole
In One Shootout profits local charity
Mark Lee of Greer came just 2’ 5” from winning $1
million in the Laurens Electric Cooperative Touchstone Energy
Million Dollar Hole-in-One Shootout April 23 at the Eagle Zone
in Greenville.
Sponsored by Laurens Electric Cooperative with The Greenville
Journal, ATS and Cornerstone Communications, the third annual
Shootout raised $10,000 for an area children’s charity,
according to Jim Donahoo, director of marketing for the cooperative.
Donahoo told the finalists, “We appreciate your support.
This benefits a worthy cause, For Our Children.”
For Our Children is a non-profit fund-raising organization that
promotes and sustains the Greenville community’s commitment
to the education, development and well-being of its children.
Recent beneficiaries of For Our Children grants have included
the American Diabetes Association’s Camp Independence,
the Make-A-Wish Foundation and A Child's Haven, a program for
developmentally delayed, abused and neglected young children
and their families.
Donahoo said later that the Shootout demonstrates Laurens Electric
Cooperative’s commitment to the communities it serves.
“As a Touchstone Energy Cooperative, we place a high value
on community commitment and focus on serving all consumers,
large and small, with reliability, accountability and innovation,”
he said.
Lee’s near miss – the closest so far of 11 fund-raising
Shootouts sponsored or co-sponsored by the co-op over the last
three years -- came amid high winds that kept the rest of the
Shootout pack much farther from the $1 million hole. John Barrickman
of Gaston came second closest at 19’ 5_” while Brandon
Brown of Greenville finished third at 36’ 10_”.
Lee won a $1,000 cash prize; Barrickman won $500, and Brown,
$250. All other competing finalists received prizes, including
golf outings and more. Finalists and other daily closest-to-the-pin
competitors received prizes, too. Laurens Electric Cooperative
serves 47,000 member-owners in Laurens, Greenville, Spartanburg,
Anderson, Newberry, Union, and Abbeville counties. Since 1939,
the co-op has been dedicated to being the provider of choice
for energy and related services in the Upstate.
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