Save the Date for 2010!

Our tournament will be Saturday September 18, 2010!! Mark your calendars!

What a day!! THANK YOU!!!

I am happy to say that the 7th Annual Stacy Egan Memorial Golf Tournament was a total success! We had fabulous weather, and with fabulous friends... it was truly the perfect day! We all had a blast and raised an awesome amount of money for the Ganhz family! Thank you to EVERYONE who helped by donating things for the silent auction, golfing or attending the dinner and supporting the silent auction! We couldn't have pulled it off without you! A special thanks to Jimmy Biermaier, our MC who makes the event so fun, Mary Shepherd for rounding up more silent auction items and door prizes and making her AMAZING cookies that raised more money for the event, the Green Mill of Hastings for an awesome meal, our Grandma for making a gorgeous quilt that was raffled off, Kristie Williams for making the jello shots, the Molitors for donating the alcohol for the shots (which raised more money!!), all the game night girls (Aimee, Heather, Kristie, Debbie & Ondrea) for helping with the check-out at the silent auction- you made our lives so much easier, you have NO idea!!! and a special thanks to Karen and Paul at the Lake Pepin Golf Course for all your help... the course is GORGEOUS and we love you guys! If I have forgotten anyone, I apologize! But we are truly to grateful to EVERYONE for their continued support of Stacy's tournament! We couldn't do it without YOU! We still miss Stacy so terribly but look forward to the golf tournament as a day to remember her and celebrate her life! Thank you thank you thank you!! Here are some fun photos from the day!

Counting down the days

We are so excited for Saturday! It is going to be a GREAT day! We are having an amazing turnout! We will have close to 250 people for dinner!!! That is almost 100 more people than we have ever had!! The forecast looks good too! 80 and sunny!! Can't wait to share the day with some new people! Thanks to all of you who have donated to the silent auction and are so willing to help! We appreciate you all so much! We look forward to seeing you on Saturday!!!

Planning on coming to dinner??

We are asking that if you are planning on coming to the golf tournament for dinner ONLY, please send in your registration ASAP so we can get a count of how many people to plan for. In the past we have allowed people to pay that night, but are asking that you send in the registration ahead of time... we really won't have any available to take the money that night. If you have any questions please email me us at stacyegantournament@gmail.com or mail a check ($25 per person) made out to Stacy Egan Memorial Golf Tournament to:

Kristin Ehmke
3278 Richmond Alcove
Woodbury, MN 55129

Thanks for your cooperation!

Another registration update...

We are now up to about 25 foursomes, which means we are almost FULL! So if you are planning to golf, email us ASAP so we can hold your spot. Save your spot by emailing us at: stacyegantournament@gmail.com. All registration fees must be received by August 29th to ensure your spot is reserved. Thanks!!

Registration update!

All of the invitations were sent out about a week ago! Just wanted to update you all to let you know that we already have about 10-12 Foursomes full! So PLEASE get your stuff in soon if you are planning to golf! :) We are excited for a great event this year! If you would like to hold a spot, email us at stacyegantournament@gmail.com. We will hold spots until Aug. 29th, if we haven't received payment by the 29th we will open your spot.

As always, we can use donations for the silent auction and door prizes! Thanks!

Invitations...

Just an update that we will be starting to send out invitations in "rounds"! The first batch went out yesterday and we will be sending the rest out over the next week or so.

We have stated this over and over but if you are planning to golf... we have limited space and we have invited an extra 200 people this year... so we will fill up quick. We sign people up on a first come first served basis. So again, if you are planning to golf, send in your registration as soon as you get the invitation! We have UNlimited seating for dinner, so when golf fills up we hope that we will still see those people at dinner. We are going to start dinner a little early this year and have some festivities before-hand for those that aren't golfing. It is always such a fun day and we are so excited to see everyone again this year! Just start praying for good weather now :)

As for silent auction items... we still can use anything that you all are willing to donate! You can email us at stacyegantournament@gmail.com or drop off your items to Wise Family Funeral Home, 400 Spring St. in Hastings!

Thanks again for all the support!
The Wise/Schwieger/Ehmke/Egan Families!

Update...

Over the last 6 years The Stacy Egan Memorial Golf Tournament has raised more than $70,000 for sarcoma research at Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. We thank all the participants for their love and continued support over those 6 years. Last year alone, we were able to raise $12,000 for a family that had lost their wife and mother to cancer. Cancer research remains a critical issue, and we look forward to the day when the need no longer exists. Unfortunately, that day is not yet in sight and many continue to be touched by the relentlessness of cancer. Again, this year, we are presented with the opportunity to make our golf tournament even more personal.

3 years ago Kristine Gahnz was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer. The cancer stayed away for 3 years but retuned this past spring, this time in her liver. Kristine has had 2/3 of her liver removed and is currently undergoing chemotherapy. Her 3 children (Tate, Lexi and Noelle) are as central to her fight for life as Connor and Cullen were to Stacy’s. Kristine’s courage, selflessness, strength and determination will remainas ever present as Stacy’s does today. So the proceeds of this year’s tournament will be going to the Gahnz family. We know, without hesitation, Stacy would be so honored to have money raised, in her memory, to a very deserving family. Looking forwardto seeing everyone, old and new, this year!!

Below is the Gahnz family! Kristine and Cory are in the back. Their kids (from left to right), Tate, Lexi and Noelle!

Invitations/ Sign-up

Many of you have been asking about how to sign up for the tournament. We will be sending out the invitations in the 1st or 2nd week of August. The invitation has a sign-up sheet and all the information you will need to know about the day of the golf tournament.

If you are interested in donating to the silent auction, please email us at stacyegantournament@gmail.com Donations may also be dropped off at the Wise Family Funeral Home, 400 Spring St. in Hastings... during normal business hours. Thank you to all who have already sent us some items! :)

Anniversary...

As you know, today is May 1st. It is the 6th anniversary of Stacy's death. It's always a hard day... we miss her terribly. Our family always gets together today to remember her.

If you haven't seen it... the Hastings Star Gazette did a story on tournament and announced who we are donating the proceeds to. So run out to get a copy. Unfortunately I can't put a link to it on the blog.

This year we are donating the money to Kristine Gahnz who is a Hastings resident and a friend of the family. We will post another blog soon about Kristine and her family... stay tuned :)

We have sent some of the save the dates out... the rest will be arriving to you early next week. If you haven't received one by Wednesday May 6... contact us and we will add you to our list. stacyegantournament@gmail.com

Below are some pics of us remembering Stacy on May 1...

These are almost all of her nieces and nephews... we were only missing Griffin & Nicholas

Every year we let off balloons to go up to Stacy in heaven... we do this at the golf tournament as well...

And there they go....

Save the Date!

If you aren't on our mailing list and would like to be added please email stacyegantournament@gmail.com. Save the date cards will be sent out at the beginning of May. Invitations will be sent out at the beginning of August.

The tournament will be held on September 19th at 11:00am in Lake City at the Lake Pepin Golf Course! If you aren't able to join us for golf..... we would love to have you come down for dinner and the silent auction... usually starting at 5:00pm!! We look forward to seeing you all there!

Welcome!

We thought it would be a good idea to start a blog so you can come here to find out more about the tournament!

As many of you know, Stacy passed away on May 1, 2003 after a 14 month battle with Leiomyo Sarcoma cancer. It was Stacy's unbelievable example of how to live life, ferociously fight for life, and to end life, that has gotten us through the days, weeks, months and years since her death. We miss her EVERY day! She left us the greatest gifts to remember her by, her 2 boys, Connor (14) and Cullen (almost 11). We know she is proud of the boys that they are and the men they will soon become.

Our first tournament was only 4 months after she passed away. Her husband, Mike planned the day at a golf course owned by a family friend in Lake City.... we had a great turnout without having much time to plan! Needless to say the tournament has grown so much! Stacy may not physically be with us at the tournament but she is definitely there in spirit. We love to spend the day remembering Stacy and telling those who didn't get to know Stacy, all about her. We truly look forward to it every year!

For the first 5 years we donated the proceeds from the tournament to the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. They specialize in Leiomyo sarcoma. While, we know there is a long way to go in finding a cure for this type of cancer we realized that our donation could be more impactful elsewhere. And that Stacy would want to help other young mothers in fighting this battle. Mike worked with a woman who was diagnosed with breast cancer around the same time Stacy was diagnosed with her cancer. Her family relied heavily on her income and when she wasn't able to continue working, we decided this was our new calling. The money we raised would dramatically impact this family. So we donated the proceeds ($12,000!!!!) of the tournament last year to them!

Stacy with Connor (7) and Cullen (4) shortly after she was diagnosed.