43 | Thursday, September 3, 2015 | OAKVILLE BEAVER | www.insideHALTON.com In left photo, five-year Chris Wade Memorial Golf Tournament volunteers (from left) Jessica Ross, Ken Ross and Nicole Ross pose for a photo last week at Glen Abbey Golf Club. Ken was also part of the core committee which ran the event since its inception. In right photo, tournament chair Ian Mise is pictured with Chris Wade's daughter, Jennifer. | photos submitted sease, can develop inflammatory bowel disease, regardless of age, race or gender. continued from p.42 and he also golfed and bowled. "He was the type of guy that you'd meet once, ca whether it was on the 19th hole (the clubhouse after a round of golf) or in the dressing room at Support our mission Support our mission the hockey rink, and he'd be the centre point of to find the cure. find the cure.people," Mise discussion. He'd always beto ribbing 1-800-387-1479 said. "He1-800-387-1479 wasn't prominent as a business leader, but he was a good commnity person." Seeing a tournament in her father's name raise more than $350,000 for charity was overwhelmdevelop was a volcan develop ing for Wade' s daughter, Melissa,canwho inflammatory boweland disease, spoke durunteer in bowel thisdisease, year's tournament inflammatory regardless of age, race or gender. ing the regardless ofdinner. age, race or gender. "The event (Ian) organized is unbelievable and the amount of money they've raised is fantastic," said the 27-year-old, who moved back to Oakville from Montreal this year to attend Sheri1-800-387-1479 Support our mission to find the cure. Tournament enabled hospital to buy equipment, hospice to invest in staff young adults. teenagers and dan College. "His friends were his family... Sometimes time passes and memories become more distant, so it was really beautiful to see people still carrying those memories with them. The relationships with my dad have stuck with them. "My dad was a very charitable man, and I know he would have found (the money raised) very touching. The care he received when he was at Oakville Trafalgar hospital was impeccable, and the Ian Anderson House -- I have no words for the work they do. That's the closest to being able to take my dad from the hospital that we could get. I could see the sense of comfort he felt when he got there... I don't know how aware he was, but I could see how calm he was with the sense of community and home he had to allow him to be at peace." Ian Anderson House received approximately half of the tournament's all-time proceeds. The other half was split between the Juravinski Cancer Centre (the first two years) and the Oakville Hospital Foundation (the last three). "We're so grateful to them for choosing us," said Ian Anderson House founder Margaret Anderson, whose facility does not rely heavily on government funding. "It's amazing how much they've done." Anderson said donations from the tournament went towards investing in the quality of nursing and support staff, and towards expanding the facility's parking lot. "The tournament proceeds, which remarkably grew year after year, enabled us to direct more than $120,000 toward vital equipment, including the palliative care unit at the new Oakville hospital," added Oakville Hospital Foundation CEO Tina Triano, noting clinical equipment, such as patient beds, pain pumps and diagnostic equipment, is not government-funded. "We are proud of the extraordinary future of healthcare in Oakville, thanks to the committee of volunteers, sponsors and participants of the Chris Wade Memorial Golf Tournament." Considering the success of the tournament, especially this year's event which raised more than $90,000 through the live and silent auctions alone, Mise said it is tempting to forget the fiveyear mandate and continue on, or at least find another way to raise money in memory of Wade. It is an urge Mise is resisting, for now. "Five years, in retrospect, was a long time," he said. "At the same time, we want to continue remembering Chris. There are other ways we can do that, whether it's supporting the cause for the Ian Anderson House and the cancer centre at the new hospital. "It's likely we'll do something. I'm just not sure how we'll go about that yet." In recognition of the tournament's contributions over the years, the emergency department diagnostic sub-waiting area and a palliative care patient room in the new Oakville hospital will be named after Chris Wade. 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