Calgary – Canadian Pacific Kansas Metropolis (CPKC) is proud to announce that Alberta Kids’s Hospital Basis has been chosen as the first charity associate for the 2024 CPKC Ladies’s Open, to be held on the historic Earl Gray Golf Membership from July 23 – 28, 2024.
“CPKC is happy to as soon as once more associate with the Alberta Kids’s Hospital by way of the 2024 CPKC Ladies’s Open,” stated Keith Creel, CPKC President and CEO. “By constructing on our first Ladies’s Open partnership with Alberta Kids’s Hospital in 2016, we are going to leverage our group funding program, CPKC Has Coronary heart, to assist the youngest hearts throughout Alberta.”
This 12 months’s aim is to lift greater than $2.75 million for Alberta Kids’s Hospital. These funds might be devoted to help researchers on the Alberta Kids’s Hospital Analysis Institute who consider there’s potential to develop a routine blood check to supply earlier detection of congenital coronary heart defects or different anomalies at beginning so mother and father and caregivers might be ready earlier than the infant is born.
“Yearly in Alberta, there are roughly 550 infants born with a congenital coronary heart defect,” says Saifa Koonar, President and CEO of the Alberta Kids’s Hospital Basis. “With this unbelievable help from the CPKC Ladies’s Open, our researchers are working to develop a brand new, non-invasive check to determine these issues sooner, main to higher prenatal care and alternatives for crucial life-saving interventions.”
“It has been inspiring to share within the affect of CPKC Has Coronary heart on the lives of numerous youth and households within the host communities of the CPKC Ladies’s Open,” stated Laurence Applebaum, CEO of Golf Canada. “Bringing the fiftieth taking part in of our Nationwide Ladies’s Open Championship again to Calgary and now to Earl Gray Golf Membership for the primary time might be particular. I do know that golf followers and occasion fans will have a good time the CPKC Ladies’s Open as a week-long competition expertise that can go away a significant group legacy in help of the Alberta Kids’s Hospital Basis.”
The LPGA awarded the CPKC Ladies’s Open, hosted Aug. 22-27 at Vancouver’s Shaughnessy Golf and Nation Membership, with Match of the 12 months in 2023 for the second consecutive 12 months. Golf Canada and CPKC additionally obtained Gold Driver Awards for Finest Sponsor Activation in 2019, 2022 and 2023 in addition to Finest Group and Charity Engagement in 2017, 2019 and 2022.
About Canadian Pacific Kansas Metropolis
With its world headquarters in Calgary, Alta., Canada, CPKC is the primary and solely single-line transnational railway linking Canada, the US and México, with unmatched entry to main ports from Vancouver to Atlantic Canada to the Gulf of México to Lázaro Cárdenas, México. Stretching roughly 20,000 route miles and using 20,000 railroaders, CPKC supplies North American clients unparalleled rail service and community attain to key markets throughout the continent. CPKC is rising with its clients, providing a set of freight transportation companies, logistics options and provide chain experience. Go to cpkcr.com to study extra concerning the rail benefits of CPKC.
About CPKC Has Coronary heart
At CPKC, we all know {that a} railroad could function the arteries of a nation, however at its coronary heart is group. That’s why, by way of CPKC Has Coronary heart, we’ve already helped elevate greater than $35 million to assist enhance the center well being of adults and youngsters throughout North America. And alongside the best way, we’re displaying coronary heart each time we will. Discover out extra on www.cpkcr.com
About Alberta Kids’s Hospital Basis
The Alberta Kids’s Hospital Basis conjures up our group to spend money on excellence in little one well being, analysis, and household centred care. By the generosity of donors, the Basis supplies funding for modern packages, state-of-the-art gear, superior medical coaching and internationally acknowledged pediatric analysis. The Alberta Kids’s Hospital Basis is a founding associate of the Alberta Kids’s Hospital Analysis Institute, in addition to the first funder. www.childrenshospital.ab.ca
