CareAlive – Caroline Cunningham Foundation For Epilepsy

Care-Alive is proud to be the charitable organizing partner of the Bay Street Softball League Charity Tournament. Care-Alive partnered with the Bay Street Softball League in 2009 and has held 2 very successful and fun tournaments. Caroline played in the league for many years and the tournament was always one of the highlights of her softball summer.

The tournament is held in East Point Park in Scarborough on the 2nd Saturday of August. Proceeds from the tournament have primarily been used to fund the sponsorship of seizure-response dogs.

We’re beginning planning of the 2012 Tournament now, so check back soon for more details…

Charity Softball Tournament 2011

2011 Tournament Champions – The Broken Bats

The 2011 tournament was held on Saturday, August 13th, at East Point Park (in Scarborough).

We’d like to thank our Diamond Sponsors for making this day possible!

We’d also like to thank the following for their donations and support:

Charity Softball Tournament 2010

2010 Tournament Champions – The Rangers

The 2010 Charity Tournament held on Saturday, August 14, 2010 at Ken Morrish Complex at East Point Park in Toronto, Ontario.

15 teams from the financial district in Toronto played in the tournament and the players collected pledges to participate. We’re happy to report that we raised over $15,000 in pledges. We were also able to cover all of our tournament costs through sponsorships and donations. We used the proceeds from the tournament to sponsor 2 seizure-response dogs through the Lions Dog Guides (we supplemented the amount raised with some existing funds to sponsor 2 dogs as sponsorship is $10,000 per dog).

It was a great day, with absolutely perfect weather, the games, food, kids activities and scheduling all went off without a hitch, the first aid tent was inactive 99.99% of the day, the piñata and face painting were huge hits with the kids, and of course, lots of great softball. Congratulations to tournament champions – The Rangers - who defeated RBC in a hard fought finale!

Thanks both to the players for making them so welcome and to Kayla and Duke from the Lion’s Dog Guides for coming out to talk about the seizure-response dog guides program and give demonstrations. It was so great to be able to show people where their pledges go and reminds us what our hard work is for!!!

Thanks to the league – Mark Kettunen, Trish Bunnett, Andrew Williams, Meredith Flynn and Grace Ayshun – for organizing the teams and running everything so smoothly the day of and thank you to our volunteers:
• Derrick Wong, Gord Belfry, and Krystal Kynoch who all served on the foundation’s organizing committee along with the foundation members Valerie Cunningham and Tannis Kynoch.
• And our tournament volunteers Brooke Allen, Cynthia Stacey, Dale Powell, Evita Strobele, Frances Lea, Hank Cunningham, Jane Varghese, John Lei, Kathleen Ratcliff, Korinna Lattemore, Lynn Stacey, Michel Bilodeau, Valerie Cunningham and Vincent Rother.

Congratulations to Greg Warren who won the draw for a $500 gift card from Air Canada and 1 night’s stay and dinner at the Doubletree Inn next to Pearson Airport. Once again, this draw was for all players who raised over $250.

Draw Winner Greg Warren with Tannis & Val

Here’s a special thanks and shout out to the top fundraisers:

1. Jeanette Hamilton of CIBC Mellon who won the iPad as the top fundraiser! (as well as a Care-Alive t-shirt and cooler)

Tannis, Jeanette Hamilton, Val & Hank

2. Gord Belfry from RBC who won The Caroline Cunningham Award for the Most Sportsmanlike player and 2nd place fundraiser: a golf foursome, an iPod Shuffle, a Care-Alive t-shirt and cooler.
MVP Gord Belfry with Tannis & Val

3. Jennifer Donnelly (CC Cosmos), Dave Fox and Ken Paisley (both from GMP Securities) and Justin Louie (SunBirds) all raised $500+ and won $50 gift cards, Right to Play sweatshirts and Care-Alive t-shirts and coolers.

Justin Louie, Tannis & Val

Jennifer Donnelly, Tannis & Val

4. Andrew Williams (The Grunts), Corey Webster (The Rangers), Chris Mills (CC Cosmos), Derrick Wong (The Broken Bats), Filipe Rocha (CC Cosmos), Greg Warren (CC Cosmos), John Lei (CC Cosmos), John Megafin (The Athletics), Krystal Kynoch (The Broken Bats), Larry Noble (The Slackers) and Mark Girzetti (RBC) all raised $250+ and won $25 gift cards and Care-Alive t-shirts.

$250+ Fundraisers

(Missing from photo: Filipe Rocha)

We hope that RBC enjoys their night at Second City awarded to them as the top fundraising team!

We would like to thank our sponsors for helping to make this event possible!

Our Diamond Sponsors:
• Odlum Brown Limited
• Freedom International Brokerage
• Shorcan Brokers Limited

And an extra special thanks to Freedom International Brokerage who was also the lunch sponsor for the tournament and to our environmental sponsor – the Cambridge Club – who are helping us “green the event”.

Thanks to the following for their generous donations:
• 6 Degrees Marketing
• Armstrong Partnership Ltd.
• Baton Rouge
• The Broken Bats
• CIBC Wood Gundy
• The Doubletree Inn
• Four Restaurant
• Global Brand Foods (Jon Catsaris)
• The Hot House Café
• Jessica Rawn
• Jump Café and Bar
• Lynn Stacey
• Pizza Pizza
• RBC
• Right to Play
• Scotland Yard
• Starbucks Canada
• Suncor
• Whole Foods – Yorkville
• Ucentrik Inc.