The winners of the golf chipping contest held by the Kittanning Lions
by Jonathan Weaver
A local service organization honored the winners of a recent fundraiser last week.
The Kittanning Lions Club honored three winners of their golf chipping contest held at the Fort Armstrong Folk Festival at their recent meeting.
Fundraising Chairperson Mindy Wolfe summarized the game.
“They hit a little plastic ball with Velcro on it onto a frame game – a big metal canvas with straps all around it, you hit balls up against it and there are different spots on it – it looks like a driving range,” Wolfe said. “We kept a running total of the highest scores, and at the end of the Festival, we had four adult prizes and two kid prizes.”
Prizes were donated by the Kittanning Country Club in Kittanning, Birdsfoot Golf Club in Freeport, Cabin Greens Golf Course in Ford City, Lick-n-Putt Ice Cream & Golf in Fenelton and the former-Dan’s Dawgs & Donuts in Kittanning.
Winners were broken up in separate divisions and consisted of 12-and-under Division 1st Place Winner Kade Contrael and 2nd Place Winner Zane Lasher, and Adult Division 1st Place Winner Cole Davis, 2nd Place Winners (tied) Noah Kunst and Scott Croyle and 3rd Place Winner Bill Daugherty.
Wolfe said children especially enjoyed the event, which was used for the second time during the Folk Festival.
“Some of the kids kept coming back to try and improve their score – we had more kids than anything, Wolfe said. “Everyone really liked it.”
“We had used to do the dunk tank at the Folk Festival, but there’s a lot of work involved in that, and you have to have people to dunk and it started to be kind-of a hassle draining the tank every day and filling it up, having a heater there…it got too involved,” Wolfe added.
Funds raised through the contest will go back into community service projects.
“We’ve been around since1947 in Kittanning and everything that we make goes back right out to the community,” Wolfe said. “We help the blind or help people who are low-income get glasses, or help people who have had fires in their houses or different needs.
“We have an ear open to see if there are any needs in the community, so this went into our General Fund to help people,” Wolfe said.
The Kittanning Lions Club meets twice a month. Summer meetings were held at Kittanning Community Park.