Iron Man 2015

Iron Man 2015

Come join us.

It’s always a delight to be together with a group of men and women who have a desire to take a step or two just beyond the borders of ‘comfortable’.  IronMan is just such a case.  This event is open to everyone who wants to golf for a purpose and who wants to golf without the focus being on the golf score alone.  The IronMan is for everyone who’d like to give a good part of a day to playing golf and in the process raise the awareness of issues surrounding mental health.

Tuesday June 23^rd is the day you’re invited to take part in an adventure.  This year is the 15^th year that Eden Foundation has hosted a group of golfers on the Winkler Centennial Golf Course.  There is no registration fee to be part of this event but we do ask golfers and caddies to raise pledges in support of the work of Eden Health Care Services.  Here’s the link that will take you to the Registration Page.

Eden Foundation has created a Manual you can download here.  It will give you all the details of what to expect during the course of the day, from the time you arrive for breakfast to supper in the late afternoon.

Try to keep up boys!

The question one might well ask is, “Why would anyone want to golf 100 holes of golf in one day?  That’s an awful lot of golfing for one day.”  The reason why anyone might want to do anything is to challenge oneself and in doing so, recall how someone struggling with issues surrounding mental health is challenged daily.  For someone who is dealing with issues of mental health, not only does that person struggle with the emotional roller-coaster but so very frequently the individual is struggling with the loss of employment.   It is also far too common that in many cases homelessness is part of the package.

Eden Foundation is focusing on all of the components that make up good mental health and there are occasions where a particular area is the focused target for the event.  This year the Foundation is looking to support the work of our Housing and Supports Board and their expansion of housing.  Currently Housing and Supports operates apartment buildings in Winkler, Steinbach and Winnipeg which offer 131 places for people to call home.  There continues to be a real need for more places to be built and the Eden organization is not alone in this realization.  Eden gets involved with building homes where there is a desire for the communities being served, to have those homes built.

No, really!  This is a very serious game.

 Currently, Eden together with a group of people from the city of Steinbach have come together and have identified a prime piece of property in Steinbach to build a new apartment block and have made an official application to the provincial government, inviting them into the partnership as well.  This is a pattern that Eden and other interested groups have worked successfully in previous projects; the last one being the Concordia Village IV project in Winnipeg.  We look forward to the formalization of the relationship and as such can expect that the Eden will be asked to be a financial contributor to the project.

You are invited to be part of the experience.  You can be part of that experience by sponsoring one of the golfers, click here to add your support to their effort.