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Starkey hearing foundation kicks
off gala weekend with celebrity Golf tournament
Tickets Available for Purchase to Play Alongside Kevin
Costner,
Doug Pitt and Others
What: The Starkey Hearing Foundation, dedicated to changing
the social consciousness of hearing and hearing issues
through education and research while providing the gift of
hearing, presents their annual pre-gala, celebrity golf
tournament.
More than 160 golfers are expected to participate in this
scramble format tournament. The event is open to the public.
Tickets are available for purchase by calling the Starkey
Hearing Foundation at (800) 769-2799. All proceeds go to the
Starkey Hearing Foundation to help fund future hearing
missions, as well as hearing education programs and
initiatives. Tickets are $1,000.00.
Who: The Starkey Hearing Foundation joins forces with
celebrities and athletes alike year-round to raise awareness
and deliver the gift of hearing to those in need around the
world. In addition to the dozens of celebrities
participating in the Foundation’s So the World May Hear gala
on Sunday, July 24, the following will be hitting the greens
for a day of golf: Kevin Costner, Kevin Sorbo, Doug Pitt,
Chris and Kyle Massey and Alan Kalter.
When: Friday, July 22, 2011
8:00a.m. – First Shotgun start
11:00a.m. – Luncheon (with remarks from Jerry Ruzicka,
President, Starkey Laboratories Inc.)
1:00p.m. – Second Shotgun start
Where: Olympic Hills Golf Club
10625 Mount Curve Road
Eden Prairie, MN
About The Starkey Hearing Foundation:
The Starkey Hearing Foundation is striving to change the
social consciousness of hearing and hearing loss prevention.
Hearing loss affects one in 10 Americans, and 63 million
children worldwide, yet many do not have access to the
hearing devices that can help correct that disability. The
Foundation now delivers more than 100,000 hearing aids
through hearing missions in countries stretching from the
U.S. to Vietnam. Since 2000, the Foundation has supplied
more than 500,000 hearing aids to people in need and is
striving to achieve its goal of distributing over one
million free hearing aids in this decade. In addition to
giving the gift of hearing, the Foundation also works
diligently to promote ‘safe hearing’ through two unique
programs - the recently launched Listen Carefully campaign,
aimed at preventing hearing loss among teens and young
people; and the Sound Matters™ program, which with the help
of partners such as Best Buy, the Grammy Foundation and
others within the music and entertainment industry, seeks to
raise social awareness of healthy hearing, prevention of
hearing damage, and regular hearing check-ups. For more
information on the Starkey Hearing Foundation, visit
www.starkeyhearingfoundation.org . Last year’s 2010
Starkey Hearing Foundation So the World May Hear gala
successfully raised $7 million, every dollar of which
contributed to helping change the lives of people around the
world.
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