– To the Traverse City Golf and Country Club’s members, who via their seasonal Eagles for Children fundraiser collected $126,250, which will be given away to 13 regional charities at a banquet on Wednesday. The total is $30,000 more this year than in 2023, said Teri Gorsline, a local Eagles for Children volunteer committee member. All the money goes to nonprofits dedicated to helping disadvantaged local youth.
Eagles for Children is a Michigan-based organization that counts more than 20 participating golf clubs across the state — including in Traverse City — and also in Wisconsin and North Carolina. It has donated more than $6 million to children’s charities since its start in 2012, according to the nonprofit’s website. Participants pledge a minimum of $2 for each time a fellow member scores an eagle on a hole at the club and, as of 2023, the group reports raising more than $1,100 per eagle.
An eagle is a score of two strokes below par on a given hole.
– To Traverse City Central High School’s Grace Cary, who recently announced her commitment to play Division I college softball for the Big Ten Conference’s Ohio State University. Cary is the third Big North Conference high school player to commit to a Power 5 — or major conference — university during the last several years, as reported by Record-Eagle Senior Sports Writer James Cook.
– To Branden Morgan, who retired this week after 27 years as sexton of Oakwood Cemetery in Traverse City. In that time, he’s performed a variety of caretaking tasks, from working a wheelbarrow, to landscaping and preparing sites for burial, and simply being there for those who are grieving, as stated in a Thursday Record-Eagle story by Staff Writer Kathryn Depauw, who covers Indigenous Affairs in partnership with Report for America….