After a decade and a half and almost $2 million raised for the Cross Cancer Institute, Bryan Mudryk's family will be parking their carts and hanging up the clubs.
After a decade and a half and almost $2 million raised for the Cross Cancer Institute, Bryan Mudryk's family will be parking their carts and hanging up the clubs.
Hundreds of people from all over the country came to Boyle for the final round of the Bryan Mudryk Golf Classic June 24.
“I'm excited about it. I'm sad it's over, but I'm proud of the 15 years,” Bryan Mudryk said in an interview. “I guess I can leave with my head held high, and knowing that this community, and Athabasca and the whole county, and we've just done an incredible job as a whole community. It's been really good. Positive.”
“That was one of the hardest nights up there,” Bryan said about speaking on stage this year.
The fundraiser pulled celebrities and golfers from all over Canada.
Terry Mudryk-Harbarenko, organizer and mother to Bryan, said the money this year was going to a patient financial care program.
“I'm expecting that should be somewhere in that same vicinity (as previous years), whether it's $60,000 or it's $100,000,” she said.
CEDA's Andrew Boutilier said he had been travelling down the highway and seeing the sign for years, and this year decided to participate.
“Obviously, cancer research is important to us all,” he said. “It's affected someone that you've touched in your life at one time or another, whether it be relative, friend, family.”
He also said to get together with friends in Boyle, where they all assembled after the 2016 wildfire in Fort McMurray, was “kind of special.”
“Boyle, Athabasca and Wandering River just seemed to roll up their sleeves and had that can-do attitude to take on whoever, whatever and whenever, certainly not ideal circumstances,” he said. “So to come down and be able to give back a little bit to small-community Alberta, it's just feels good.”
