The Rotary Club Gives Hope

What do we learn from golf?

No, not how to cuss. (Although sometimes this is an almost unavoidable side-effect!)

How about how to remember to p-l-a-y for the rest of your life, to follow through, live on greens, keep both feet planted solidly on the ground, and take long walks for greater health? Forget opponents; always let your best challenger be yourself. Golf teaches us to play games as often as we can; it’s a lot cheaper than therapy. It teaches us to play a situation where it sits, and not to spend too much time wishing for things to be different. It also teaches that no matter what amazing things you did the day before, you still have to start over in the morning.

With golf, just like with life, you can’t quit mid-game. You have to finish, keep pushing, and never give up. While golf rather curiously teaches us how to settle and calm ourselves, to relax, it exercises the most important part of the body (that being our mind) at the same time.

What are we learning from golf on Friday, July 15th?

We’re learning how to hope. Also, and maybe more importantly, how to give hope.

Leave it to the Nampa Rotary Club to set something like Golf for Hope up as a part of the Snake River Dayz Community Festival: The club’s motto is ‘Service Above Self.’ The Rotary members are a group of business and professional leaders who give continuously while encouraging the highest of standards in all vocations, and go about promoting general good will and peace not only in their communities, but world-wide.

Working with sponsors like Plexus, Peppershock, Idaho Press Tribune and Channel 6, the Nampa Rotary tees off one more year of hope with its Golf For Hope event. Hope for places like the Salvation Army, Boys and Girls Club, the Hope House, and other Rotary charities that could use a helping hand.

Beginning with a silent online auction (where you can bid for things like a night at the Hampton Inn and Suites, Copper Canyon gift certificate, three-piece bistro table and chairs, Flying M Coffee Gift Cards, or a round of golf at Ridgecrest) surrounding area mouse-clickers are bidding early and often.
The fun begins Friday at Ridgecrest in Nampa at 8 a.m.

For more information:
http://www.peppershock.com/2011/06/2011-nampa-rotary-golf-for-hope/

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It’s your rodeo.

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