Well MonSTaR 2011 has been and gone, and we would like to express our heartfelt thanks to all of you who came along on the day and or evening and made the event a huge success. There was widespread acclamation for the running of the night, with food, comedian and band all receiving high praise.
We are very pleased to announce that we raised in excess of $150,000 on the day and night, and we will soon be in a position to distribute funds to our respective charities.
Here's a summary of the significant moments from the day:
MONSTAR CUP 2011 Golf Event
The golf event was contested by over 200 players, and the 2011 winner of the Fiona Pearce Memorial Trophy was the team from Bing Lee: Olly Sunstrum, Gary Lee, Brian Taylor and Alex Turner, with a massive score of 102.
Runners up were the JALaw Team: James Antonenas, Troy Trisley, Robert Trisley and John Harris.
Nobody managed to ace the 18th which would have yielded an Audi A1, however Craig Stubbs gave it a big scare by finishing one metre from the pin after rolling across the front of the hole. Special mention to PHGC Asssistant Professional Geoff Black who did manage an ace on the day on the 6th, which yielded Geoff a more modest prize of a Crystal Decanter and bottle of Dewars scotch.
NUMBER 1 BADGE AUCTION
The live auction saw very keen bidding for the honour of being the inaugural holder of the Number 1 Badge of MonSTaR Foundation. The winners were Tony Hargreaves and Andrew Melville the principals of Renascent Interiors and Constructions, who have been huge supporters of MonSTaR from the outset. The final bid of $11,000 was just enough to outlast Ross Jackson of Jackson Industries and Richard and Joanne Zalm of Zalm Hairdresssing. Renascent will occupy pride of place on our website for the next 12 months, and the boys are off to lunch with Peter Overton along with Mark, Hamish and Greg to celebrate the occasion.
MAJOR LIVE AUCTION WINNERS
Peter Overton Experience - Mark Dean
South Coast Escape - Greg Thompson
Killcare Beach Escape - Alex Lind
Night on the red carpet - Lara Kepitis
Aussie Backyard MonSTaR chef BBQ - David Thorn
Caddy for Aaron Townsend - Damian Maguire
Tom Watson golf memorabilia - Rob Nelson
Masterchefs for MonSTaR dinner extravaganza - Andrew Melville
OTHER NOVELTIES
TREASURE CHEST: Much anticipation surrounded the "buy a key" to open the Treasure Chest containing the Jan Logan necklace. All 100 keys were sold and it wasn't until the last few keys were being tried did the winner emerge. The lucky winner was Kate Whitney of Shriro, who was the kind donor of the Casio digital piano towards our silent auction, so you will agree that Kate was a most deserving winner.
MELBOURNE GETAWAY: The Melbourne Getaway to enjoy The Westin, Spice Temple, Grill on the Hill with Sam Kekovich etc etc is well subscribed, however we have a number of spots yet to be filled. Those who have committed include the following Damian and Leanne Maguire, Rob and Sue Stevenson, Ray and Ingrid Fuggle, Tack and Nerol Naylor, Rob and Jenny Cross, Glen and Cath Peterson,Ross and Marion Partridge, Mick and Marina Hargreaves, Andrew and Andrea Melville, Tony and Nicole Hargreaves, Mark and Cheryl Golding, Arun and Shannon Sengupta and Greg and Kim Hargreaves. We have been able to reduce our costs for the trip , and we are now able to offer spots for the experience at $3000. Don't forget that there is a tax deductible component for the experience !! If you have any interest in joining us, please call either Mark or Greg (0412262388 or 0418614370).
RAFFLE:
First Prize: Weekend in the Heritage in the Yarra Valley: Winner - Tony Hargreaves
Second Prize: Taylormade Golf Clubs: Winner - Kirk Henry
Third Prize: Tuskc $500 Jewellery voucher: Winner - Jane Ellis
Fourth Prize: Casio Timepiece $200 Value: Winner - Robyn Bullock
GUESS THE GOLF BALL: The guessing competition for the number of balls in the boot of the Audi went to Stuart Myers of Team Zurich with his guess of 980 balls when in fact there were 976 balls in the boot.
COLONIAL FIRST STATE AND 2UE
The day produced a major surprise, in that 2UE had been running a "nominate your favourite charity" promotion in conjunction with Colonial First State, and the winner was to be announced on Friday afternoon at 5.30pm. We received advice during the day that MonSTaR had been nominated by "Brooke from Lindfield" and to be on standby for a live radio cross if we were selected. As fortune had it, we were selected as the winner, and as such Brooke and greg Hargreaves were live to air when our Patron Peter Overton phoned in to 2UE to join the conversation to advise the listening audience that he was proud to be our Patron and indeed was on his way to MonSTaR 2011 !! Our win gained us a bonus $4000 to add to our coffers for the day.
MEMBERSHIP
We are grateful to those of you who decided to join the Foundation on the night, and we welcome the following to our membership base. We would particularly like to thank one of our long time volunteers Cyril Denny who not only joined the foundation but made a donation of $500 for which we express our thanks. We will draw the winner of the camera at our next MonSTaR meeting and advise the lucky winner; this will also include the member who have joined the last couple of weeks.
BARDWELL, Steve
BLEKOS, Con
CHARLES, Graeme
COVER, John
DUNCAN, Al
DOWNES, Derek
DRIVER, Scott
FITZGERALD, Michael
GORDON, Neil
HARVEY, Cameron
JONES, Ross
KIMBERS, Doug
MANTIORIS, Con
MILES, Ray & Marg
MAGUIRE, Damian
PARTRIDGE, Ross
ROCKLIFF, Ged
ROCHESTER, Colin
ROSE, Deborah
SENGUPTA, Arun
TOUGH, Mark
WEBSITE
Our website will be continually uploaded with more news following MonSTaR which will have photos for you to view, so revisit it regularly to see what has been happening, and what is coming up. We would like to make sure that all of our supporters are on our database, so if you have some guests that were there on the day and/or night, please encourage them to provide us with their email details, so that we can keep them updated too.
