Welcome to the 2012 Zak!Charity Open

It’s not always easy to open doors. It’s not always easy to listen to the stories you hear on the other side. Stories about children – ordinary children not that different from the ones you tuck in every night, or play games with at family get-togethers. Except maybe these children don’t have a bed to get tucked into or a family to care about them. Maybe these children are fighting a disease that is slowly robbing them of the very innocence that every child is entitled to, a disease that threatens to take everything from them.

This year, the Zak!Charity Open is opening some of those doors and sharing some of those stories with you in the hopes that when you hear them, you will see why it’s so crucial for you to get involved. Once again this year, the Zak!Charity Open is raising money to benefit the Rypien Foundation and the Boys and Girls Clubs of Spokane County, and we’re offering many ways for you to make a difference. From the Summer Celebration Dinner and Auction at Northern Quest Resort and Casino on Sunday, July 29th, to two separate golf tournaments on Monday, July 30th at the Spokane Country Club and Manito Golf & Country Club, there are plenty of opportunities for you to help these two amazing organizations. 

Often times, when we have the courage to look through these doors and we discover the kinds of stories that are behind them, our first reaction might be to slam those doors shut again. It’s too hard to listen to the reality we don’t want to believe. It’s too painful to hear the words that rip away at our hearts. But no matter how difficult it is, we can’t allow ourselves to close those doors. Because those aren’t just stories on the other side. They’re children. Children who need our help. Children who need our hope.

So get involved. Together, we can open those doors and give those children the hope they need!