by Dennis Dalman
editor@thenewsleaders.com
The second annual Tom Bearson Foundation’s Golf Outing and Bean-Bag Tournament will take place Saturday, July 23, at Blackberry Ridge Golf Course in Sartell.
The band Slip Twister, dubbed “Minnesota’s Favorite Party Band,” will provide entertainment that evening, starting at 7:30 p.m.
The event is a fundraiser for projects initiated by the Foundation done in the memory of the late Tom Bearson, an 18-year-old Sartell resident and topnotch high school basketball player who was murdered in the Fargo-Moorhead area in 2014. The killing of the North Dakota State University student has not yet been solved.
Registration for the golf event will begin at 11 a.m. with a shotgun start at 1 p.m. The entry fee of $100 per person includes range pass, green fees, cart, dinner and live band entertainment. There are options for single players up to four-member teams.
The bean-bag tournament fee is $50 per person, and registrations must be for a two-person team. The fee includes dinner and live band entertainment.
For more information about the event, visit www.tombearson.org and click on “Events.”
The Tom Bearson Foundation has funded a gymnasium renovation at St. Francis Xavier School in Sartell (Tom Bearson’s elementary school), boys’ and girls’ basketball scholarships, the Tom Bearson Spirit Award to a deserving athlete in Central Minnesota and is working on establishing campus safety programs.
Tom Bearson, who died tragically, was known as a talented, intelligent charmer with a great sense of humor by all who knew him.
Tom Bearson was fond of pets, as this photo shows.
