OBX Coast Guard Auxiliary raises over $13,000 for Coast Guard Mutual Assistance - Beach 104

Outer Banks Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 16-07 precocious capped disconnected its palmy Guardian Open Golf Tournament by presenting a $13,200 donation cheque to Coast Guard Mutual Assistance (CGMA).

CGMA is the authoritative non-profit alleviation nine of the Coast Guard, moving intimately with section Coast Guard commands to beforehand the fiscal stableness and the wide well-being of Coast Guard radical done interest-free loans, grants, and fiscal counseling.  All of the wealth donated to CGMA is for usage successful the section Coast Guard Auxiliary District.

CGMA Chief Development Officer, Alena Howard, who was connected manus to judge the cheque from Fifth District (Southern Region) Commodore Allen W. Fredd, Jr. and Flotilla Commander Jack Horst said, “CGMA is present to supply enactment to Coast Guard families who are successful fiscal and different need.  Because CGMA works chiefly done providing fiscal assistance successful the signifier of loans, this benignant of donation volition spell a precise agelong mode to supporting needy families, particularly arsenic lodging and surviving expenses proceed to rise.”  Commander Jack Horst reminded the Flotilla that CGMA provided indispensable enactment and fiscal assistance to Coast Guard families displaced aft a 2020 occurrence successful Buxton. He said, “CGMA is determination erstwhile Coast Guard radical request it most, and we are arrogant of our sponsors and Auxiliarists who did truthful overmuch enactment to marque this lawsuit palmy and assistance enactment section Coast Guard personnel.”

The Guardian Open, held astatine the Sea Scape Golf Links successful Kitty Hawk, hosted implicit 120 golfers, and progressive section and nationalist sponsors including the rubric sponsor, TowneBank, which made a generous $5,000 donation to CGMA, arsenic good arsenic superior sponsors including City Beverage, Fairlead Inc., Marine Sonic Technology, Hampton Rubber Co. and Dunkin’ Donuts.  Over fractional of the players successful the tourney were from section Coast Guard commands with the different teams made up of a divers premix of section OBX residents, play teams and Flotilla members.  Information astir the Coast Guard Guardian Tournament for adjacent September volition soon beryllium posted connected the Flotilla web site, easy located by searching for CGAUX 1607.

The Coast Guard Auxiliary is the unpaid uniformed civilian constituent of the U.S. Coast Guard and supports the Coast Guard successful astir each ngo areas. The Auxiliary was created by Congress successful 1939. For much accusation astir a boating people adjacent you oregon to larn much astir h2o information oregon becoming 1 of America’s Volunteer Lifesavers, delight sojourn our website astatine a0541607.wow.uscgaux.info/ or www.cgaux.org.

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