Bobby Orr & Travis Roy to
Host
October 20th charity Golf
Tournament
Event will fall on the 8th
anniversary of Travis Roy’s 1995 accident
Mashpee, MA --
The 7th Annual
Beanpot Benefit
Golf Tournament will be held on October 20, 2003 at the
exclusive Willowbend Golf Course in Mashpee, MA. NHL legend Bobby
Orr will once again join Travis Roy in hosting the event. The event
will benefit the Travis Roy Foundation, a non-profit organization
that provides grants to survivors of spinal cord paralysis based on
financial need and supports spinal cord research.
The Beanpot Golf Tournament is the
Travis Roy Foundation's most successful single-day annual
fundraiser. In addition to a day of golf on the beautiful Willowbend
golf course, guests are treated to a first-class meal by the
Willowbend staff as well as auctions and raffles of items donated by
professional sports teams and local businesses. Highlight items in
2002 included stays at the luxury Boston Harbor Hotel and Eliot
Hotel, golf at some of the most exclusive country clubs in
Massachusetts, autographed sports memorabilia including items from
host Bobby Orr, and a wide variety of items from restaurant gift
certificates to whale watches donated by local Boston-area
businesses.
TRAVIS ROY:
The 2003 event will fall on the 8th anniversary of Travis Roy's
injury. On October 20, 1995, only eleven seconds into the first
shift of his college hockey career, Travis Roy’s dream was cut
cruelly short when he shattered his fourth cervical vertebra,
severely damaging his spinal cord. Travis Roy is now a quadriplegic,
with no feeling below his shoulders and no movement in his legs or
left arm. With limited control of his right bicep, Travis is able to
conduct simple yet key tasks such as operating the joystick of his
wheelchair. Travis has faced his disability with the same sense of
optimism and determination that distinguished his hockey career. A
May 2000 graduate of Boston University with a degree in public
relations, he is a popular motivational speaker and is actively
involved with the Travis Roy Foundation. In 1998, he published a
book,
Eleven Seconds, based on his life.
THE TRAVIS ROY FOUNDATION:
The Travis Roy Foundation was founded in 1997 to assist
spinal cord injured individuals purchase adaptive equipment and to
fund spinal cord research. More than one million dollars in grants
has been distributed, and any paraplegic or quadriplegic who has
suffered a spinal cord injury is eligible to apply for an individual
grant. A small Boston-based nonprofit with very little overhead,
more than 99 cents of every dollar donated goes directly to the
Foundation’s charitable purposes. The Internal Revenue Service
recognizes the Foundation as a tax-exempt public charity, and
contributions are deductible to the extent provided in the Internal
Revenue Code.
For ticket or sponsorship
information for the 2003 event, please contact Brenda Taylor at
(617) 239-0556 or via email at
beanpot@travisroyfoundation.org.
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The
Travis Roy Foundation is a publicly supported charitable fund
qualifying under section
501(c)(3) & 170(b)(1)(A) of the Internal Revenue Code - Tax ID#
04-3327883
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