FRIENDS, FAMILY GOLF TO REMEMBER TIM GOLDRICK JR.Byline: Amy Raisin raisin, in botany and cooking raisin, dried fruit of certain varieties of grapevines bearing grapes with a high content of sugar and solid flesh. Although the fruit is sometimes artificially dehydrated, it is usually sun-dried. Staff Writer VALENCIA - Nearly four years after Tim Goldrick Jr. died of cancer at 35, his family and friends - about 110 of them - hit the links Saturday for the annual golf tournament played in honor As a verb, to accept a bill of exchange, or to pay a note, check, or accepted bill, at maturity. To pay or to accept and pay, or, where a credit so engages, to purchase or discount a draft complying with the terms of the draft. of the husband and father. When Goldrick was diagnosed with stage-4, terminal colon cancer colon cancer, cancer of any part of the colon (often called the large intestine). Colon cancer is the second most common cancer diagnosed in the United States. in 1998, those who loved him organized a golf benefit to help send him to Germany and Mexico for some last-hope alternative medical treatments. ``My son said to (my husband), 'If I don't make it through this, please do this tournament every year in my name,''' said Rowena Wolkiewicz, Goldrick's mother. Goldrick died on Dec. 28, 1998, leaving behind a wife, Leigh, and two young daughters - Sydney, 12, and 9-year-old Devon Devon (dĕv`ən), county (1991 pop. 1,008,300), 2,591 sq mi (6,711 sq km), SW England. The county town is Exeter. Devon is bounded on the N by the Bristol Channel, on the S by the English Channel, and on the W by Cornwall. - who live in Stevenson Ranch Stevenson Ranch, California (in the 91381 ZIP Code) is a Los Angeles County, USA, unincorporated community west of Santa Clarita a few miles south of Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park. The Stevenson Ranch fountain was redone in 2007. . Since then, Vista Valencia Golf Course has been the site of four memorial tournaments bearing Goldrick's name. Wolkiewicz, who, with her husband, Tom, helps organize the event from their Arizona home, said the tournaments have raised between $1,000 to $2,000 each year, which has gone to organizations like Make-A-Wish and, last year, to the fund to help the widows and children of firefighters killed or injured in·jure tr.v. in·jured, in·jur·ing, in·jures 1. To cause physical harm to; hurt. 2. To cause damage to; impair. 3. in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Wolkiewicz split with her son's father, Tim Goldrick Sr., when the boy was 4, but the couple have always maintained a close relationship. The elder Goldrick praised the Wolkiewicz's dedication to honoring their son and those who continue to stand by his memory years after his death. ``I can't explain to you how we feel when we get a turnout of this nature,'' said Goldrick, a Valencia resident. ``We have these memorial tournaments to try and acknowledge the people - friends, old high school buddies See buddy list. , friends from work - who helped us with that first benefit tournament.'' Goldrick's family and friends planted a tree near the third hole at Vista Valencia in 1999 and have watched it grow every year. Tom Wolkiewicz took his stepson's daughters to that living memorial recently, which also boasts a plaque plaque (plak) 1. any patch or flat area. 2. a superficial, solid, elevated skin lesion. attachment plaques bearing their father's name. ``It's nice that the kids have some place to go and remember him,'' Rowena Wolkiewicz said. ``The little one was only 4 when he died. She's having trouble remembering him. We had 110 people here today who remember him.'' CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Rowena Wolkiewicz stands near the 18th hole of the Vista Valencia Golf Course during the 4th annual Tim Goldrick Golf Memorial, in honor of her son, who died in 1998. John Lazar/Staff Photographer |
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