WINNEMUCCA - The Frontier Community Coalition is hosting a golf tournament to honor longtime Winnemucca resident Louie Peraldo, who passed away in 2008.
Coalition board members Jane Ripley, Sandy Curutchet, Pauline Salla, and Ed Sampson collaborated with golf pro Rick Longhurst to put together the event, which will begin at 9 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 13, with a shot-gun start.
Coalition board members came before City Council on Sep. 4, to request that golf course fees be waived for this event. Council members unanimously approved the request.
The 72-person scramble is a memorial for Peraldo, who was an active member of the community from the time he moved here in 1944 until his death in 2008. The tournament will consist of four-person teams for a total of 18 teams.
Tickets for the tournament are $40 a person and can be purchased at the golf course. Tickets do not include golf carts, but do include lunch. Dessert will also be provided to participants by The Owl Club in Battle Mountain.
All proceeds from the Louie Peraldo Memorial Family Golf Tournament will go directly to children's and family services that the Coalition supports. Among these services are Project MAGIC, a program for first offenders; the Drug Endangered Children Program, which provides support to children in unsafe situations due to parents' drug-related issues; Rachel's Challenge, an anti-bullying program; and state-certified parenting classes.
Peraldo was an advocate for children's services and loved kids and families, according to Ripley. He served as chairman of the Juvenile Probation Advisory Board from 1967 until his death.
"Two of Louie's loves were the youth and golf," said Mayor Di An Putnam at the City Council meeting in September; this event will combine both of those passions.
The charity event will also feature a raffle. Items that will be raffled off include a brand-new driver from Longhurst; five different golf packages; dinner for two at Ormachea's, The Martin, and the Winnemucca Inn; golf cart coolers; and gift baskets.
In addition, if a player makes a hole-in-one, he or she will win an Artic Cat ATV. If a second player makes a hole-in-one, he or she will win a golf cart. Curutchet said the Peraldo family will also award any player who makes a hole-in-one with a gold putter.
According to Ripley and Curutchet, all of the proceeds will be going to family services in Humboldt, Lander, and Pershing counties, and not a dime elsewhere.
"We are going to pull it off, we are going to make mistakes, and it will be even better next year," said Ripley, who hopes to make the tournament a successful annual event.
Ripley said the Coalition has wanted to do this event for a while now, and they were pleasantly surprised when the golf course was able to accommodate them in such a timely manner.
The Coalition, which is a tri-county organization, hopes to bring in participants from Humboldt, Lander, and Pershing counties, as well as Reno.
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