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4 • Lögberg-Heimskringla • Friday 8 April 2005
The importance of the sponsors
Steinþór Guðbjartsson
Managing Editor
In the last few years the Ice-
landic Open Golf Touma-
ment has not only been the
main fundraising event for Lög-
berg-Heimskringla — it has
been a veritable lifesaver.
Once again, Dan Johnson
has called his group of volun-
teers together to organize yet
another Icelandic Open, to take
place in Gimli, MB Friday,
July 29. For the fifth year in a
row, the toumament wiil swing
in the Islendingadagurinn, the
Icelandic Festival of Manitoba,
held annually in Gimli the first
weekend in August.
As before, 36 teams of
four golfers, 144 golfers alto-
gether, can participate in this
annual event. Some have taken
part in the event every year and
they know they have to register
early because the tournament
has always sold out. This is a
tournament they don’t want to
miss.
The main reason for the
good tumout is that while hav-
ing fun, the golfers want to
support Lögberg-Heimskring-
la. They play 18 holes of golf
and the Texas Scramble format
suits everyone, the professional
player as well as the novice.
And everyone gets a prize.
In the past, individuals
and companies have inade this
fundraiser possible. Different
levels of sponsorship — entries,
prize donations, hole sponsor-
ship ($300), silver sponsor-
ship ($1,000), gold sponsorship
($2,500), and platinum spon-
sorship ($5,000) — have been
well received, and the paper is
grateful for the generous sup-
port.
“The sponsors are of vital
importance,” says Don Lindal,
Co-Chair of the organizing
committee. And he is right —
because without them the Ice-
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