CARRABASSETT VALLEY – More than $20,000 was raised at the annual Healthcare Golf Classic held July 18 at the Sugarloaf Golf Club. This year’s festivities included 18 holes of tournament play, a luncheon and awards ceremony, silent auction and raffle.

Proceeds from the tournament, coordinated by Franklin Community Health Network, benefit the Healthy Community Coalition and Franklin Memorial Hospital’s Martha B. Webber Breast Care Center. Both provide health services to people in need throughout the Franklin Memorial Hospital service area.

This is the 18th year of the classic. Steve Pierce, tournament chairman and member of the network foundation advisory board, attributed this year’s success to the support of major tournament sponsors, as well as the local and regional businesses and individuals that donated items for the silent auction and raffle.

“We have a large number of teams that we can count on to participate each year,” said Pierce. “Camaraderie was especially evident by the many teams who came sporting team shirts or hats.”

A total of 128 golfers from throughout New England took part. All had a chance to win a new car from Hight Chevrolet-Pontiac, as well as a set of Ben Hogan edge CFP irons, a Dell computer system, and a Bose wave radio/CD player in the hole-in-one contests.

The winner of first place “gross” was Team Webber, comprised of Peter Webber, Dick Marshall and Kelly Welch. Androscoggin Bank, made up of Paul Soucie, Robert Bowie, Peter Casey and Steve Cornelio, took second place. Third went to the Howard’s Rexall team of Alan Brissard, Ron Greco, Gene Gregor and Robert Witt.

The first place “net” team was made up of Brian LeBlanc, Andy Stonehouse, Tim Millett and Jerry Millett representing PRM. Second net went to another PRM team of Dan Thompson, Karen Thompson, Paula Dubay and William Dubay. Broadlane’s team of Joe Fulmer, Jay Harwood, Frank Longo and Mike Swan placed third.

Closest-to-the-pin contests were won by Stew Durrell, Andy Stonehouse, Steve Cornelio and Brian LeBlanc. Brian Demshar and Karen Thompson each won prizes for longest drives.

The Martha B. Webber Breast Care Center provides area women with access to state-of-the-art breast cancer screening, diagnostic, clinical and care-support services. The center memorializes a Carrabassett Valley resident who was a victim of breast cancer.

The coalition and its mobile health unit promote health and well-being through disease prevention, health education and community building. Based in Farmington, it has received statewide and national recognition for its innovative programs.