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Starbelly Band Plays Gig on the Golf Course
[Aberdeen]--The local band,
Starbelly
(a Baltimore-based power pop band)
raised $8,000 to benefit The Arc Northern
Chesapeake Region at their 9th annual charity golf tournament on July 29th at
Ruggles Golf Course.
The band members donated their
time and music to over 130 golfers
including many players who
work for tenant activities on APG.
Joseph McKeever, an employee with the U.S. Army Evaluation
Center, and his close friend, Dennis Schocket, a local musician from the
band, Starbelly, organized the first charity golf tournament for The Arc in
2003, and since then, the event has morphed into an annual fundraiser that takes
place every July and has netted $29,625 to date.
McKeever does much of the logistical legwork to pull together each annual
tournament and Schocket gets many of the golfers to participate in the
tournament in addition to providing musical entertainment for tournament
participants.
"We wanted to find something that was local, where all the
money stayed right here in the area," McKeever said of the tournament genesis.
As it turned out, he and Schocket were invited to one of the agency's
open-houses and were then convinced that The Arc was an organization they had to
support. "They gave us the whole tour, and we met a lot of the people who get
services there," McKeever recalled. "It's a fantastic organization for giving
these people a better life.” The tournament appears to run smoothly because of
the work McKeever, Schocket and the volunteers put into it well ahead of
tournament time.
Special thanks to the 2011 Starbelly Golf Tournament Sponsors:
Applebees; Boomers Catering; Broomworks Embroidery; Cavanagh's Irish Pub;
Country Club Specialties; Cold Stone Creamery; Cavanagh Services Group; Fleming
Financial; John and Stefanie Jackson; Tom and Valerie Kordonski; Harry and
Rhoula Monios; Mark and Brenda Motes; MWOA; NEMOA; Chris and Rich Robinson;
Ruggles Golf Course; Brett and Kathy Riley; Smyth Jewelers; T2S; Zub Zub Inc
For more information on Starbelly band
or the golf tournament contact Joe McKeever at starbellymusic@aol.com or visit
the Starbelly Web site, www.starbellygolf.com.
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