SPORTS
Volume 19 No. 7 OTTAWA, ONTARIO JULY 2009 – SECTION B
Golf course links businesses together in construction industry
side,” adds Huras. “We can has a 1:00 p.m. shotgun start
JOHNATHAN MONK – The Ottawa Construction News Staff Writer
package the whole thing up at Horseshoe Valley this
FORE! for Minto Commercial and in four-to-six hours, de- summer. “There’s a lot of
The 2009 golf season is co-chair of the 2009 AATO pending, and after that the construction guys that like
in full swing in Ontario and (Association of Architec- players can relax. The guys it. It’s a very popular thing.”
with it brings a host of tour- tural Technologists of On- and girls are outside in the “I don’t know how much
naments – some with chari- tario) Golf Tournament. sun in a non-competitive en- business actually gets
table aspirations and some “It’s just networking. With vironment. With something done,” says Doran Contrac-
not. the area that we live in here like a baseball tournament tors’ project coordinator
Whatever the purpose, in Ottawa, networking is a it’s different. There’s an of- Rhonda Pritchard with a
nowhere is the infamous big thing.” ficial, rules, disagreements. laugh. “They talk business,
golf tourney more prevalent OCA president and gen- You just don’t get that here. yes, but I think it’s more just
than in the construction and eral manager John DeVries Yes, there’s a winner but no- talking about projects. Re-
building industry. agrees. body cares. It’s just for fun.” gardless of how you get
Each year, thousands of “It’s a good way to at- In Orillia, the ODCA’s along with someone,
industry people take part in tract members,” says De- (Orillia and District Con- though, it’s a tendering
the bevy of friendly compe- Vries, whose association has struction Association) pres- process.”
titions across the province. two tournaments this season ident Shawn Nugent says Pritchard, who also or- Coach and Member of the one high school graduate
But no matter who you – June 9 and September 15. the most people you could ganizes Doran’s annual in- Order of Canada. It’s a non- who shows promise coming
ask, however, the general “It’s a good value and it de- gather together for a base- volvement with the OCA’s profit organization that en- out of school and into the
consensus on what goes on velops camaraderie among ball tournament would be curling tournament, is play- riches the lives of children, construction and building
at these events is unani- the industry people.” about 18. “We get the ing in her eighth golf tour- youth and their families fac- trades.
mous. “These tournaments “It’s outside and you can largest amount of people in- ney with the company this ing progressive life-limiting Huras says there are in
are not moneymakers,” says laugh and have fun while volved with golf,” says Nu- year. illnesses with pediatric pal- fact so many golf tourna-
Tim Huras, project manager doing a little business on the gent, whose ODCA tourney “We always put in a four- liative care through a full- ments in Ottawa that it’s
some for the fall and in spectrum of family centered hard to make yours stand
June. I play, along with services in a supportive out.
three other guys. “That’s the home-like environment. “People in the construc-
thing,” she says, “you just Last year, The Ronald tion business generally get
got to get out there and have McDonald House was rep- to play about two to four
fun.” resented and, along with a times a year, depending, I
While there is much fun 50/50 draw, raised approxi- guess, on your type of busi-
to be had out on the links, mately $3,400 dollars in ness,” he says. “And this
the majority of the events support of the new Ronald year I decided I want to
serve an even greater pur- McDonald House addition. boost it up, to make it more
pose and that’s charity. In Orillia, Nugent says appealing. Guys and girls
This year on July 8, the the ODCA gets just enough want to come here and have
AATO Ottawa Chapter se- money from the event to a good day with no pressure.
lected the Roger’s House as cover their costs. “We do a If they’re going to pick one
the recipient of their annual draw that supports the tournament to go to, I want
tournament fundraiser. scholarship program we it to be ours. I want to make
Roger’s House was built in fund by raffling off a Texas it so people will come back
memory of Roger Neilson Mickey.” Each year, the next year.”
— Hockey Hall of Fame ODCA donates $1,000 to
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