East Coast Classic nets $85,000-plus for charities

That $60,000 figure doesn’t include the $25,000 the charities received as a result of Andy Meisner’s hole in one, made at the end of the day on Tuesday. Misener, golfing with Shea Insurance from Ottawa made his hole-in-one, the second in his life, on the 14th, the course’s longest par-3.

“It’s one of the hardest holes on the course” said Bill Robinson of the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame. The two spotters didn’t react—they just ambled over to the hole, so Meisner didn’t know he had made it until he got up to the green.”

The hole was one of four insured for $50,000. Half of that sum was automatically donated to the benefit’s charities, and $25,000 went to Meisner’s team.

“They split it amongst the team’s five members—and then each donated $1000 back. Of that, $4,000 went to help their celebrity player Heather Moyse with her training.

Moyse, who is from Prince Edward Island, is an elite athlete who represents Canada in international competition as a rugby player and bobsledder.

The Shea Insurance team also donated $1,000 to a theatre company in Ottawa in Nigel Bennett’s name.

A group of local sports organization also benefit from the East Coast Classic. Grants of $1000 were provided to the Digby Junior Golf Program, the Digby Soccer Association, Active Kids-Healthy Kids, Weymouth Athletic Association, and Digby and Area Figure Skating Association.