From a fundraising and awareness perspective, Hatzolah has
successfully hosted three dynamic events since October 2013
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the greatly popular annual Poker evening, The Argus Cycle
Tour Fundraiser, and themuch-loved Golf day. All these events
were wonderful initiatives, professionally organised and
brought inmuch needed funds to assist Hatzolah.
Showus your Poker face!
Hatzolah’s highly successful third Poker evening hosted by
Blue Strata was held on the 2nd of March 2014, at the
Ballroomof theWanderers Club.
The Poker Event drew an enthusiastic crowd, who had one
goal in mind – to raise funds for our worthy cause. Each guest
received a personalised bottle of Glenfiddich whiskey, and
each table winner received an iPad with many other fantastic
prizes, given away throughout the night.
Our sincere thanks go, once again, to our key sponsor Blue
Strata, who never fails to open both their pockets and their
hearts toensure that this event is a huge success each year.
Thanks also go to Full House Events for providing the dealers,
and all things ‘poker’ related, and to our willing team of
volunteers for their time.
And of course – a huge thanks to all of you who so generously
took part inmaking this an amazing evening!
We look forward to seeing you at next year’s Poker Evening!
Hatzolah&SasfinAnnual Golf Day
We are deeply indebted to our sponsor Sasfin for assisting
Hatzolah in putting together our extremely successful Golf
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Day – held on the 9 of October 2013 at the Houghton Golf
Course in Johannesburg. As usual, the event was sold out,
completewith awaiting list for fourballs.
The Annual Golf day is renowned as one of the top corporate
golf days in the Jewish calendar – not only for Hatzolah, but
throughout the community. Prizes this year included LG home
theatre systems, luggage sets, Carvo flavoured Vodka and gift
hampers.
Special thanks to Lauren Aaron and Terri Katz of Sasfin,
together with Lisa Etkind and Ilana Stonefield and their teams
for all their help in putting the event together.
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Riding For aValid Cause
A team, representing Hatzolah and bristling with confidence,
travelled to Cape Town early this year to participate in the Cape
Argus, Pick 'n Pay and Momentum sponsored Cycle Tour, held on
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the 9 ofMarch 2014.
The arduous 109km race, considered the largest cycling event on
the international circuit in terms of participants (34 500 cyclists
took part in the 2014 event), is equally considered the pinnacle
of local cycling races and usually draws contestants as diverse as
professional riders, semi-competitive amateur cyclists and even
complete novices wanting to challenge how far they can push
their bodies.
Weather conditions play a particularly instrumental part in how
the day pans out, and our brave Hatzolah riders faced the tough
winds and difficult conditions with gusto and positivity. In fact,
winds at the start were recorded at a dizzying 83km/h, and our
teambattled through the elementswith our veryworthy cause in
mind.
Hatzolah participants were greeted with massive cheers of
support from the sidelines, as family members, friends and the
Cape Town community were out in full force. This support gave
the team much-needed strength to persevere through the
challenging conditions.
Again, the Cycle tour was a fantastic success as Hatzolah
volunteers, paramedics and community members committed
the better half of the day to raising much-needed funds for our
valuable organisation.
Hatzolah was privileged to be hosted at the President Hotel in
Sea Point, which included a truly magical shabbos in preparation
for the big event.
Once again, a huge debt of gratitude to our primary team
sponsors, Bidvest, whose contributions allowed the team to
travel to Cape Town and do the Argus.
