Veterans Day golf outing returns

WANTED: All military veterans and active-duty personnel to enjoy a complimentary continental breakfast, golf, carts, dinner drinks as well as a specially designed commemorative sweatshirt.
If Glocester Country Club, the Marine Corps League and Johnston Memorial Cancer Events, Inc. placed an advertisement, it probably would have read like the lines above.
However, the invitation stretches far greater and wider, because the tournament – which will be played on Veterans Day, Saturday Nov. 11 with an 11:15 a.m. shotgun start - is being held to fund the prestigious and highly acclaimed 2023 Wreaths Across America that began, is sponsored and based at Ponaganset High school.
Likewise, the unique Veteran’s Day Golf Tournament will begin with a 10 a.m. breakfast followed by a brief but special ceremony honoring all veterans. Dinner will be served after the nine-hole event that organizers announced is limited to 64 veteran and active-duty military golfers.
“To our veterans and active duty military,” read a line in the invitation. “Thank you for bravely doing what you’re called to do, so we can safely do what we’re free to do!”
Meanwhile, a tourney official said: “In order to provide a free day of golf for veterans and active duty military, we are seeking sponsors of $50 or more per participant. A sponsor of that amount – or more — will receive a commemorative sweatshirt, access to the tournament as a spectator or forecaddie and invitation to dinner following the nine-hole scramble format event.
“This is a great way to show great gratitude and support for our nation’s veterans and active-duty military personnel,” a tourney committee member said. “We’re inviting as many people as possible to become a sponsor for this important Veterans Day event.”
Thus, anyone who makes a $50 sponsorship or greater will receive the communitive sweatshirt as well as an invitation to the dinner and entire tourney.
All checks should be made payable to the JMCE, 75 Orchard Meadow Drive, Smithfield, RI 02917. For more information, please call Vincent LaFazia at (401) 233-2564 or email Fazigilly54@gmail.com.