JCI golf fundraiser this weekend

Junior Chamber International will hold its 16th golf fundraiser on May 17 at the Laolao Bay Golf Resort west course.

Organized by the local chapter of the JCI, the golf tournament aims to raise money to fund the group’s yearly cultural exchange program. This year, JCI CNMI again plans to bring local high school students to South Korea.

The tournament, dubbed simply as the JCI Golf Fundraiser, will have two categories—open and ladies. Champions from both divisions will each receive $300 and second and third placers will take home in-kind prizes.

It will utilize the Calloway system to compute the net scores of participants. Aside from the cash and in-kind prizes a spanking new 2008 Mazda MP3 sports sedan will be awarded to the lucky golfer who managers a hole-in-one in the JCI Golf Fundraiser.

Sign-up and registration for the event is 11:30am on game day itself, May 17.

Proceeds from the competition will help pay part of the expected $40,000 cost for JCI’s annual cultural exchange program to South Korea set for June 3 and 6.

According to JCI CNMI president Kim Ji Yoon their group is looking to send 20 students to the Land of the Morning Calm.

The 20 will be joined by three staff from the Saipan Mayor’s Office, five JCI members, and one media practitioner.

Expected to join the golf fundraiser on May 17 are local Korean golfers, top government employees, members of the Legislature, and businessmen.

Entry fee for the golf fundraiser is $100 (inclusive of green fee) and also entitles participants to take part in the awards banquet set on the evening of the tournament at the Royal Taga Hall of the Saipan World Resort, beginning 6:30pm.

JCI was officially founded in December 1944, on the premise that young people working for mutual understanding could prevent another Holocaust from developing in the future.

It is unique for several reasons. One is the age limit of 18 to 40 for its members. The second is its concept that no officer should serve more than one year and the third is the similarity in its structure to that of the United Nations Assembly.

Most of all, it is unique in its basic approach that young people have a role in organizing projects and programs to fit the needs of the communities where they live.

In the CNMI, JCI comprises two chapters—the JCI Saipan Chapter and the JCI Flame Tree Chapter.