Canada's National Women's Open Championship set for
August 19-25, 2013, at the Royal
Mayfair Golf Club in Edmonton
EDMONTON,
March 26, 2013 /CNW Telbec/ - CN
(TSX: CNR) (NYSE: CNI) and Golf Canada announced today that the
Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation has been selected as the
official beneficiary of the CN Miracle Match campaign to be held
during the 2013 CN Canadian Women's Open.
Canada's National Women's Open Golf Championship will take place
from August 19-25, 2013, at the Royal
Mayfair Golf Club in Edmonton,
Alta. Communities across Canada have hosted the CN
Canadian Women's Open for the past seven years, and 2013 marks the return of this tournament to
Edmonton, a major city on CN's
network.
CN Miracle Match is a national charitable initiative that CN
launched in 2006, which rallies communities across Canada behind a
very worthy cause - supporting children's hospitals. Funds raised
through this year's initiative in communities in the Capital Region
and throughout Alberta will be
given to the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation.
Each year since 2006, CN and Golf Canada have raised funds to
support children's hospitals by matching funds raised through
initiatives connected with the CN Canadian Women's Open. In the
past seven years, the CN Miracle Match program has raised more than
$8.2 million for children's hospitals
located in the cities across Canada that have hosted the Open.
In 2013, CN hopes to help raise $1.8
million for the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation,
which would bring the cumulative total raised for children's health
care through the CN Miracle Match program to $10 million.
"At CN, we are committed to giving back to the communities in
which we operate, and we are very proud that CN Miracle Match has
been able to help children all across Canada since 2006," said
Claude Mongeau, President and Chief
Executive Officer of CN.
"We are thrilled to come back to Edmonton, a city that is so important to our
business. I am confident that the community will support the CN
Canadian Womens' Open, and that we will make a major donation to a
great Alberta institution like the
Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation. "
CN will be partnering with the Stollery Children's Hospital
Foundation through its many programs including transportation to
the Stollery Children's Hospital to children living in Alberta's remote communities.
"It is only through the generous support of community leaders
like CN and Golf Canada that the Stollery Children's Hospital can
deliver the highest levels of care in pediatric medicine," said
Mike House, President and CEO of the
Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation. "The Stollery
Children's Hospital has the second largest catchment area of any
pediatric hospital in the world, serving the most critically
injured and chronically ill children from some of the most isolated
and far reaching corners of the country. We are so proud to
be in partnership with CN and Golf Canada, and we are grateful that
the funds raised through the CN Miracle Match program will make a
significant and lasting difference towards ensuring a full range of
excellence in care is accessible to patients and their families
from across Canada."
"Together with CN, Golf Canada believes it is very important
that the CN Canadian Women's Open leave a lasting legacy in our
host communities while also providing our top Canadian athletes the
opportunity to compete against the world's best," said Golf Canada
CEO Scott Simmons. "Edmonton has proven itself a world-class host
for Canada's National Women's Open Golf Championship with extremely
passionate golf fans and we are thrilled that this year's event can
once again contribute to the Stollery Children's Hospital and its
important work."
ABOUT THE STOLLERY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
The Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation is dedicated to raising
funds for specialized equipment, sub-specialty medical education to
train the best of the best, research to pave the way to the
discovery of new treatments or cures for child health issues, and
specialized programs that improve patient and family outcomes,
including neonatal and pediatric transport teams which serve rural
and remote communities when children require life-saving care at
the Stollery Children's Hospital.
ABOUT THE 2013 CN CANADIAN WOMEN'S OPEN
Stars of the LPGA Tour will challenge for the 2013 CN Canadian
Women's Open from August 19-25 at the
Royal Mayfair Golf Club in Edmonton
Tickets can be purchased online, at www.cncanadianwomensopen.com
, or by phone, at 1-866-571-5742. For up-to-date information about
corporate packages, tickets, volunteer opportunities or corporate
hospitality, please visit the website.
The CN Canadian Women's Open is proudly sponsored by CN, CVS
Controls Ltd., TaylorMade adidas Golf, Molson Coors Canada, The Globe and Mail, Shaw,
The Glenlivet, AutoCanada, Jacob's Creek and CBC.
ABOUT CN
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subsidiaries - spans Canada and mid-America, from the Atlantic and
Pacific Oceans to the Gulf of
Mexico, serving the ports of Vancouver, Prince
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Minn./Superior, Wis.,
Green Bay, Wis., Minneapolis/St. Paul, Memphis, and Jackson, Miss., with connections to all points
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information on CN, visit the company's website at www.cn.ca.
GOLF CANADA - LOVE THE GAME. GROW THE GAME.
Golf Canada is the National Sports Organization and governing body
for golf in Canada representing
more than 340,000 golfers at nearly 1,500 member clubs across the
country. A proud member of the Canadian Olympic Committee, Golf
Canada's mission is to grow participation, excellence and passion
in the sport while upholding the integrity and traditions of the
game. By investing in the growth of the sport and introducing more
participants of all ages to the game, our goal is to be relevant to
and respected by all Canadian golf enthusiasts from coast to coast.
For more information about what Golf Canada is doing to support
golf in your community, visit www.golfcanada.ca.
SOURCE CN