Welcome back into Good Day, Ste.
We all know how much you love to golf,
but are you confident enough toy
in a outing with lots of other people?
I am. And you know what?
It kind of helps my game a little bit
because I'm able to watch other people,
yeah, and see what they're doino
because I need a lot of
help with my game, well,
if you golf for fun or if
you're serious about it,
why not hit the links and raisee
funds for a great organization?
John Lechman joins us from
Hospice of Northwest Ohio.
And John, we were able to
talk golf just a little bit.
So we won't bore our viewers
with all of our golf talk,
but this is a really special ou.
Just tell us what is it all abo?
It is. This is our 31st year.
Our outing was started a very lg
time ago by the desal real estae
company and a couple of year actually
last year we we brought it in
house and really made it our ow.
So it's now sort of the official
Hospice in Northwest Ohio outin.
So we have it at River B Hills.
It allows us to raise funds to p
as the communities Hospice prove
care for patients who aren't abe
to find you know provide that ce
any other way on their own or or
bereavement programs are camp for kids,
palliative care, you name it.
All the things that are made possible
because we're a nonprofit Hospi.
And the the more care that we're
able to provide the community i,
is because of things like this outing.
So we're excited for,
it helps us raise funds.
And it's just a good day to kind
of get out and help spread the
word about Hospice.
Yeah.
Yeah,
I love that. So talk to us a
little bit about the outing.
So is this is this an outing tht
you all usually do at Riverby
Hills or has the location chang?
It has changed over
the years. We've been at Riverby Hills for,
I think probably about five years now.
They do a beautiful job with
outings and it's a beautiful co.
Their pace of play for an outing is great,
so we love it there.
They're a good host for us,
so it's a great place for the outing.
It's a fairly inexpensive outin.
It's a scramble format,
so it's really approachable for
golfers of all skill levels,
but it's it's one of the least
glad to get Kaylee out there to.
It's one of the least
expensive outings in town.
Foursomes are only $300.00 apie.
And then there's other opportuns
for sponsorship that go all the
way up to our tournament sponso,
which is currently open at $300.
So I'm kind of hoping for
the Good Day Miracle.
Maybe one of your viewers,
maybe one of our vendors maybe
somebody who's experienced
Hospice in their own family.
Maybe they're in the position to
sponsor us this year so that tht
tournament sponsorship is open.
It's $3000 and it includes 2 foursomes.
So if I get a call later today
I'll call you guys back and I'll
let you know that we got the
good day mirror that
will be awesome. That's that's t
that's what we want to happen.
Yes. Exactly. So what take us to
the day like what else is there
going on do you guys have. Yeah
there's a there's a lot going on both
in terms of the golf outing itsf
we've got some special holes lie
we have Jake the Cannon guy on e
one who will uses the air cannoo
get the the ball about 450 yardo
the green which is fun and it it
helps support pace pace of play.
So it kind of keeps people movi.
We have other things on the cou,
but we also have a Euchre tournament,
which is unusual for a golf outg
for folks who don't play golf
during the afternoon.
We've got a little Euchre
tournament that goes on with prs
available that's separately pri.
That's also on our registration page,
which is on our main Hospice pan
our Hospice in Northwest Ohio website.
If you Scroll down,
there's a little section for
what's new and there's informatn
about both the golf outing,
both golfing sponsorship and auction.
We've got some cool auction ite.
In fact,
I found out over the weekend tht
we will have a signed scorecard
from Tiger Woods from Augusta.
So we're kind of excited about that and
a couple of other cool experience things.
The Mud Hens worked with us ande
providing a package to attend te
game and throw out the first pi.
The the Walleye are working wits
and they're going to have a package to
attend the game and ride on the Zamboni.
So we're trying to have some god
experiences that people can can
bid on for the auction.
Oh wow,
that is really neat.
That is the first pitch is really cool.
It is the Tiger Woods sign car m
Augusta is is wonderful. Yeah.
So that's nice. So John,
talk to us a little bit more abt
just what this money helps to do
when it comes to helping famili,
dealing with such a tough time.
Because when you think of Hospice care,
this is just making their loveds
comfortable until the inevitabl.
So just just talk to us a bit me
about what this money goes towa.
As a nonprofit Hospice and
as the community's Hospice,
we we feel a real responsibility
to provide the most care possib.
So we're going to try to do more visits.
We're going to try to provide
more to a family during that,
that end of life experience or
that serious illness experience.
Our focus is not on curing
disease or illness,
but on helping with pain and
symptoms management and and helg
the family through bereavement,
both in terms of before a loss,
anticipatory grief,
as well as grief during and after a loss.
So we're there to support the family.
We're there to empower the
family to be the best caregivers
they can be during this time.
And we're trying to make
that last chapter of life,
the highest quality of life for
the patient family that we can.
So one of the big things for
me is to try to break down the
myths that there's such a thing
as too soon to call Hospice.
There is no such thing as too s.
And really people do better on
Hospice than not on Hospice.
So I encourage people just
with questions to call us.
They don't have to come on the program
to get those questions answered.
We're a resource to the communiy
that's there all the time.
And I know personally,
having been a caregiver,
that sometimes those questions n
be really frightening and it can
just be a lot for people to han.
So I would encourage people just
to begin to get those questions
answered even well in advance
of when they think it might be
the right time for hospital
because that's a conversation tt
we really don't want to have.
It's it's very uncomfortable.
So you all have folks who help just to guide
through that process.
Absolutely. I mean, you know,
as a culture in the United States especially,
we're kind of that denying natuy
and to make that switch from curative
healthcare to palliative healthe
and begin to focus both on pain
relief and symptom management,
It's sometimes a hard shift to .
And I think that a a good Hospi,
a good nonprofit Hospice,
a community Hospice like ours
can help make that transition
the best it can possibly be.
And I think sometimes people
are surprised at just how much
support can be there and there's
actually hope in that process.
Yeah. So
talk to us about the golf outin.
When is it again? Because we ju,
we just talked about all that you guys do.
But what what we're highlighting
is this outing. So when is it
and how can people get involved?
Absolutely. It is September 21s,
so it's coming up here pretty s,
just in the next month or so.
So people, there's still opportunities
for people to have foursomes.
There's still a few opportunitis
for sponsorships available.
Like I mentioned,
if we were able to get a tournat
sponsor from today's show,
we'll call that the Good Day Mie
and there's also the auction.
So if people think that they hae
some interesting experience ite,
if people have a a timeshare or
an Airbnb or something that we
can package up and and really
create an experience for people,
we think that's a really great y
for us to push our auction up.
So golfing, auction, Euchre,
it's all on our website and I encourage
people to kind of take a take ak
at our website and see what's t.
Sounds like a fun day
at the golf course. Well,
thank you for joining us, Tony.
Thanks for having me at it.
Yep, hit him straight.