The NCTC Foundation 2nd Annual Golf Tournament held at Valley Golf Course in East Grand Forks on August 17th, raised over $12,000. A significant portion of the proceeds will be given out as scholarships to students of the East Grand Forks campus of Northland Community & Technical College.

The 18 hole scramble brought in a record 29 - four person teams. The tournament also grew in attracting area business sponsors. Major tournament sponsors were Clear Channel, Climate Control, Lunseth Plumbing and Heating, Floan-Sanders, Taher, In-Prints Screen Printing, Daydreams Specialties, American Crystal Sugar, Drummer’s Diesel, Grand Forks Heating and Scott’s Music.

Individual hole sponsors included: A & L Potato, Affinity Builders, Area Community Credit Union, Barrel O’Fun, Barta’s Refrigeration & Air Conditioning, Blue Moose, Bremer Bank, Bydal Designs, Century Properties, Custom Aire, Dakota Supply Group, Duke’s Liquor, Economic Development Housing Authority, Evergreen Inurance, Farmers Insurance – George Wogaman Acency, Fine Print of Grand Forks, Forx Builders, Galstad, Jensen & McCann, P.A., GFCC Golf Shop, Hardware Hank, Home of Economy, Hugo’s, Ingersoll Rand, Inspec, K C Electric, Leisureland RV, Martin Mechanical Design, Midcontinent Communications, Opticare Forks Vision Clinic, Paul D. Stadem, D.D.S., River Cities Speedway, Riverview Health, RJ Zavoral & Sons, Robinson Excavating, State Farm Insurance- Gary Belanus Agency, Stennes Funeral Home, Terri Staples, Sue Thompson, Linda Waale & Rocky Moore, TNT Outfitters, Widseth Smith Nolting, & Associates, Vilandre Heating, Air Conditioning & Plumbing, Weber’s Irrigation and Well’s Fargo Wealth Management Group.

The winning men's team sponsored by Weber’s Irrigation Company included: Tony Weber, Kyle Weber, Brian Weber and Troy Weber. The winning women's team included: Sue Thompson, Terri Staples, Linda Waale and Rocky Moore. The winning mixed team included: Tim Borgen and Dave Twite of RBB Electric and Kelly Shipman and Lacie Olson of Graybar.

Longest Drive honors went to Tim Borgen and Lisa Bartlett. Longest Putt honors went to Pat Boppre.

The NCTC Foundation is a non-profit organization that seeks and administers private gifts for student scholarships and support of NCTC. For more information on how to establish a scholarship, please contact the NCTC Foundation at 218-683-8616.