Sold-Out Elks Steve Renner Golf Outing Brings In $$ For Cancer

By: Betsy Reason

After the rain cleared Saturday morning, it was a beautiful day for Noblesville Elks Club’s 37th annual Steve Renner Golf Outing.

The Elks, over the past 10 years, have donated more than $145,000 to help fight cancer, thanks to this outing, Elks Lodge member Terri Sigman-Kennedy said.

“Over 65 sponsors and many more donors help fight this battle, she said, of Saturday’s golf outing, which sold out five months ago and took place at Fox Prairie Golf Course in Noblesville.

With a membership of now more than 600, the Club is among the successful clubs in the area.

The golf event committee of 16 members began meeting in early March led by Steve Vallier and Jerry Wides, who have been on the committee and co-chaired the past five years. The committee monthly to get the club off the ground.

All hole sponsors paid $100 and were recognized by signs on holes on the course as well as an in-house sponsor listing that was shown on a screen in the lodge. All donors and sponsors’ names will be on display for a month.

The outing included a silent auction that kicked off on Monday and ran through Friday, when a live auction began, then golfing the following morning, Sigman-Kennedy said. The auction raised about $6,200. The auction was started by the late Krissi Davis and, after her passing, Steve Vallier and Jerry Wides have kept it going to lead off the golf outing.

Steve and Linda Renner are Platinum sponsors every year for the annual Noblesville Elks’ Steve Renner Golf Outing for Cancer Research. Indiana State Elks’ major project is IU/PU Cancer Research.

This year’s sponsorships of $500 or more included: Renner Nixon Bodywork, Community First Bank, Weihe Construction, Ferguson Enterprises, Reslers Tax Service, Hallmark Homes and Creative Planning.

“The outing is lots of work but a great committee and 30 volunteers made this event work,” she said. A final total of money raised won’t be known for a couple of weeks, she said. The committee will meet in a couple of weeks to wrap up this year’s event and to write “thank you” cards to people who “helped make this year’s shouting the success it is.”

There were 32 teams of four. Each golf team required at least one Elk member in good standing. All entry fees had to be paid in full by members of the team to guarantee the team spot, she said.. Fox Prairie Golf Course pro and Noblesville Elk Gary Deakyne of Noblesville helped facilitate this event. 

Indiana Elks State president was last year’s State president, Geoff Robinson, a member of the Noblesville Elks.

The luncheon after the golf event was prepared by volunteers, who met at the Elks Club on Thursday night. “Some snapped green beans. “Green beans have for many years been something that the late Ron Reasoner, along with Kim Groves, took great pride in preparing for the luncheon on golf day. Cindy King.has stepped in helping Kim with the beans.”

Lunch was served of fried chicken, green beans, macaroni and cheese, baked beans, sliced tomatoes and homemade chocolate chip cookies.

Volunteers on Thursday night met at the Elks Club and filled coolers provided by runners for every golfer with golf balls, snacks and other donated items. “When golfers arrive at the course after checking in, they find these coolers along with golf towels, golf hats and this year, grilling aprons already loaded in their carts.”

-Betsy Reason writes about people, places and things in Hamilton County. Contact the Times Editor Betsy Reason  at [email protected].