Our 31st annual Family Ball Tournament will be held on
Friday, August 11th and Saturday, August 12th, 2023
This year’s major charity: Kemptville District Hospital Foundation
This year our proceeds will go to the Kemptville District Hospital Foundation. The foundation is responsible for funding priority medical, diagnostic and surgical equipment needs that are vital for providing the best in patient care. They are currently fundraising for a CT scan for the hospital, as well as smart hospital beds, and they also have a compassion care fund to purchase items that are priority for the patients and their families (iPads, recliners).
As usual, we will also give other smaller donations to local charities as suggested by you, our families. Please send us suggestions for our smaller charitable donations.
Other important details for 2023:
Our 2023 Family Teams:
Blanchfield, Bracken, Chambers, Churchill, B. Dewan, W. Dewan, Douglas, Downey, Helem/Doyle, Holmes, Kelly, McEvoy, Mussell, Quinn, Rowan, Thompson
FOOD
Sandwiches will be available Friday night and Saturday.
Coffee, donuts and fruit will be available Saturday morning.
Pizza slices will be available for sale Friday night (9 pm)
The barbecue will have hamburgers and hot dogs from 11 till 6:30 pm on Saturday.
Fries for Charity will set up all day Saturday. Proceeds from that will go to the Care Centre. Tony will be cooking (TBA) Saturday evening (8 pm, right before the final game).
BAR
The bar is open from 4 till 11 on Friday night, and from 11 am till midnight on Saturday night.
MVP PRIZES
The MVP prizes will be donated by each family again this year. Please provide an all-ages gift card for $25 as the MVP prize and please get it to Ben and Natasha Chambers by Saturday at noon.
HOME RUN DERBY
The Home Run Derby takes place on Diamond Two at the afternoon break in the schedule, and you can sign up anytime before it begins. Executive Director Christine Tierney needs help to retrieve balls.
KIDS GAME
Executive Director Brad Quinn always needs more volunteers to help him with the game JUST for the little ones. It will be played on Diamond One at the same time as the Home Run Derby. Make sure your young ones know about it, and bring their gloves and running shoes!
TUNES AND ENTERTAINMENT
Live entertainment all weekend again this year!
Derek Martin Duo (Eastbound of Bytown) is playing country music from 8 to 11 pm on Friday night.
Spencer Scharf will play from 11 am to 1 pm Saturday.
The Two Paddys will play from 3 to 6 pm Saturday.
Brandy n Port is playing from 8 till midnight Saturday night!
KIDS CORNER
Kids Corner is always a hit. Reminder that if you have any older kids who might want to help out please be sure to show them where everything is! Colouring, face painting, games, and of course CANDY!
RAFFLES
We are making a big change to the silent auction this year – it will now be a bucket raffle, to make it easier us to manage. A bucket raffle works very easily: you buy a string of double raffle tickets. You separate them and you write your name and phone number on them, and put them in the buckets of the prizes you want to win. If we draw your name, you win the item.
We had 61 prizes last year! Thank you to all who helped us fill our table. We are actively soliciting prizes again for the bucket raffle, so if you know anyone who can donate something please collect it and let us know so we can add it to the master list of prizes. It is very hard to organize last minute additions to the raffle, so please get the item to us before the tournament if possible.
We will also be doing our normal 50/50 draw this year. However, this year we will also be putting names and phone numbers on the 50/50 tickets, so when we draw the winning name, if it’s yours, it’s yours!
FACEBOOK PAGE
Watch for planning and tournament updates on our Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/FamilyBallTournament