The Transportation Club Golf Outing will be held Tuesday, July 17^th, at Keller Golf Course in Maplewood, Minnesota.  The cost for golf, cart, and dinner is $130.00 per person.  The cost of a Hole Sponsor is $100.00.  We will be raising funds for the University of Minnesota Amplatz Children’s Hospital.

The Hole-In-One Contest this year is sponsored by North American Trailer- Mr. Dennis Alm.  In addition to the Target Hole-In-One that pays any and all winners $10,000.00 each on Hole #6 there will be additional Hole in One Events on three others holes. The prize for a Hole-In-One on #4 will be a Sharp LCD Flat-Screen Television, Hole # 13 will be a Set of Callaway Diablo Irons and on Hole# 15 will be Two Round Trip Domestic Airline Tickets. We will have eight golfing challenges for you to participate in.

Back again by popular demand King Solutions will be sponsoring a Putting Contest on the Practice Putting Green.  Each participant will get their opportunity to make the putt.

 We again will be selling our golf contest card for $20.00. This will allow you to participate in all of the contests such as the hole-in-one, longest putt and longest drive.

 We are looking for donations to be given away to the attendees. If you or your company has something you would like to donate, please contact the Golf Committee.  We will also be holding raffles for the larger items being donated.

We still have Hole Sponsorships available, which can be purchased online, along with your Golf Outing Registrations and Golf Contest Cards. Go to www.transportationclub.com and click on Shopping Cart.  Or, you can mail a check to the Club at P.O. Box 385995, Bloomington, Minnesota, 55438.

Don’t forget, golf starts at 12:15 PM, with dinner to follow at 5:45PM, then prizes and raffles.

Thank you…Hope to see you there!

The Golf Committee, or golf@transportationclub.com

Our mission is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas and information concerning transportation in all its aspects. We also seek to foster fellowship within the transportation community.

Today, our membership is more than 300 members. Our diverse membership represent all forms of transportation, including:

“Dedicated to providing a continuing opportunity for education, fellowship, and mutual understanding, while maintaining the highest standards, of and for those persons within the transportation industry.”

“Powered by the Members”

Also if you would like to sponsor a future event the cost is $100.00. Please contact office@transportationclub.com

Our mission is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas and information concerning transportation in all its aspects. We also seek to foster fellowship within the transportation community.

Today, our membership is more than 300 members. Our diverse membership represent all forms of transportation, including:

“Dedicated to providing a continuing opportunity for education, fellowship, and mutual understanding, while maintaining the highest standards, of and for those persons within the transportation industry.”

“Powered by the Members”

Transportation Club gives kids a boost during their hospital stay

A hospital stay can be a tough time for children and their families. For close to eight decades, members of the Transportation Club of Minneapolis & St. Paul have been trying to make it easier by giving their time and money to the University of Minnesota Amplatz Children’s Hospital.

“They’re a wonderful group—I can’t say enough about them,” says Diana Huseth, UMCH director of volunteer services. “They’re just very caring and loving people who want to make a difference in the lives of our patients and families, and they do.”

For nearly a decade, the Transportation Club, a nonprofit organization made up of members of the transportation community in Minnesota, has been hosting monthly parties for patients to ease the stress of their hospital stay and help them feel like a part of a caring community. The club also uses proceeds from its fundraisers to buy gifts to cheer children hospitalized over the holidays and donates volunteer time to wrap them. Its funds also supply hospital playrooms and lounges with toys and other items.

The Transportation Club took the remarkable step of expanding its support with a five-year, $95,000 pledge.

“Parties are great, but the day after, it’s all gone,” says ex-club president Tom Krieger. “[This money] will be spent on bigger-ticket items for the kids to enjoy for a long time.”

Although it’s still under consideration, the new gift may be used to support the hospital’s Child-Family Life Services efforts to help patients and their siblings understand what’s happening to them, or it may be used to enhance art and music therapy offerings.

Child-Family Life Services program manager Tim Knaeble says the new gift will be a big boost in helping kids be kids during their hospital stay. “We feel really fortunate to be working with the Transportation Club,” he says. “To have some ongoing support like this opens a lot of new doors … Their hearts are so big.”

To learn how you can support Child-Family Life Services at the University of Minnesota Children’s Hospital, contact development officer Jen Foss 612-625-1440 jfoss@mmf.umn.edu

Link: http://www.mmf.umn.edu/children/stories/donors/transportation.cfm