FALMOUTH (WGME) — Dozens of celebrities are serving to elevate tens of hundreds of {dollars} for 2 Maine charities.
They’re on the point of tee it up on the Drive Fore Youngsters Superstar Golf Match.
A number of the gamers gathered Thursday in Portland forward of the occasion at Falmouth Nation Membership Friday.
It should elevate cash for the Barbara Bush Youngsters’s Hospital and Dempsey Middle.
The charities will see greater than $100,000 mixed.
This 12 months’s gamers embody NESN broadcaster and Lewiston native Tom Caron and former professional golfer Halle Leadbetter.
“I’ve had plenty of buddies which have performed and have stated, ‘Hey you have to stand up to Portland, it is a tremendous trigger for the Dempsey Middle and the Barbara Bush Hospital,’ so I simply suppose, ‘What higher option to elevate consciousness and what extra enjoyable option to elevate consciousness than to play golf on this occasion?’” Leadbetter stated.
“I am from right here, so I understand how particular Portland is, however it’s wonderful, like Michael Peña, the actor got here two years in the past, he is really taking pictures a film and bought out of it for 4 days to return again, and that is actually cool that individuals come to see Portland, the celebrities, and are blown away and wish to come again,” Caron stated.
Different celebrities embody former and present NFL gamers and Pink Sox legends Keith Foulke, John Lester and Derek Lowe.
