Kurling for Kids 10th Annual Tournament Sets Fundraising Record

Over 528 curlers and countless supporters of Kurling for Kids enjoyed a day of curling on March 29 - and all in the name of fundraising. Kurling for Kids held their annual fundraiser this past weekend and had a record-setting year as $132,000 was raised for the Montreal Children's and Sainte Justine's Hospital Foundations. The fundraiser has now raised over a ½ million dollars by holding an annual curling tournament in Montreal area curling clubs.

All funds raised will be used towards meeting both Hospitals' most urgent needs. Kurling for Kids will be purchasing Physiological Monitors for the Montreal Children’s Post Anesthesia Care Unit and a Transoesophageal Ultrasound for Sainte Justine's Hospital. .



This year's event took place at 10 Montreal-area curling clubs – TMR, Glenmore, Lachine, Saint-Lambert, Pointe Claire, Montreal West, Pointe-Claire, Otterburn Memorial Legion, Baie D’Urfe, Ste Anne’s and Royal Montreal. To raise funds for the Kurling for Kids tournament, curlers were asked to raise money by collecting donations of at least $100. As well, many businesses and individuals were very generous with private donations to the cause.

Huge thanks go out to all of our major corporate sponsors: NSB, Corbec, The Sandra Schmirler Foundation, The BBB Foundation, MacDougall, MacDougall & MacTier Inc., GL&V, Morbern, Pro-Direct Industriel, Ernest, Dectron, Vanderzon Landscaping, Drillmex 2005 Inc., Coldwater Group, Otis, Advanced Dynamics, KSH, ETFS, Superior Alloy Technologies, The St. Lambert Sunday Curling Gang, Ultramar, Lerner Promotions, Artistic Embroidery, MR Graphique, Imprimerie Aubry, Murielle Leblanc and Teddy's Restaurant. Sincere thanks go out to all of the curlers, sponsors and volunteers who made this event as successful as it was.

The 11th edition of Kurling for Kids will take place March 28 2009. Next year, organizers are hoping to have all Montreal-area clubs participating in their event before expanding to the rest of Quebec and Canada with all proceeds going to the pediatric hospitals throughout the country.



For further information contact Robert Sears at (514) 432-0768 or by email at robert.sears@kurlingforkids.com. Details of the event can also be viewed at www.kurlingforkids.com. Hospital Foundation contacts are Madeleine Colaco at Sainte-Justine at (514) 345-4931 and Michèle Le Fèvre for the Montreal Children’s at (514) 934-4846.