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ARTA Annual Golf Tournament Gerhard Sawatzky | FRTA Planning Chair On June 21, the Highwood Golf and Country Club in High River was the destination for 136 golfers as they played in the ARTA Annual Golf Tournament, hosted for the fi rst time by Foothills Retired Teachers’ Association (FRTA). The FRTA Golf Planning Committee was delighted with the excellent support the tournament received from across the province. Golfers travelled from Calgary, Lethbridge, Edmonton, Claresholm, Brooks, Nanton, St. Albert, Three Hills, Cochrane, Athabasca, Medicine Hat, Airdrie, Vermilion, and Okotoks. Helen McIntyre led twenty volunteers that included ARTA president Marilyn Bossert. Many were not golfers, but happily supported the project nonetheless. The planning committee chose as the tournament’s venue the Highwood Golf and Country Club to celebrate its fl ood mitigation eff orts and the complete rebuild of the course 8 | arta.net Early volunteers setting up for the day: Darryl McLeod, Shirley Crawford, Gerhard Sawatzky, and Arnold Nugent. with its newly engineered berm that protects both the golf course and the neighbouring residential community. We can make a signifi cant donation to the Alberta Retired Teachers Charitable Foundation due, largely, to the very successful mulligan sales. Thank you to everyone who planned, volunteered, promoted, and participated in this tournament. Not only was it an excellent golfi ng event, but it was also a wonderful opportunity to socialize with old and new friends from across the province. Our major sponsors included the Alberta Retired Teachers’ Association, Servus Credit Union, High River TW Insurance, and Merit Travel. ●