Sundays typically are among the busiest for country clubs but Cold Spring Country closed its course - for golfers anyway - last Sunday at 4 p.m. The event was "Stride for the Cure," to benefit breast and prostate cancer research. More than 100 club members and guests made donations - the minimum was $30 - to walk the course, and the event ended up raising $9,760. That amount was matched by Lois and David Lerner of David Lerner Associates, bringing the afternoon total for the American Cancer Society to $19,520.
Tom Cohen, in preparation for the Five Towns Kiwanis Club's annual golf outing, had a different idea for the auction that has been a part of the event:
Send out 70 $2 bills to various celebrities to autograph, enclosing the bill and a return-address envelope.
The first to respond was billionaire Warren Buffett, followed soon after by Donald Trump, Jay Leno, Billy Joel, Martha Stewart, Rosie O'Donnell and Colin Powell.
To date, 22 celebrities, including Giants coach Tom Coughlin and Rangers coach Tom Renney, have replied by signing the bills, though many have responded - presumably by spokespeople - by simply sending the $2 back unsigned. Most of those came from politicians like New York governor Eliot Spitzer and California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Cohen said. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, however, did return her bill signed.
source : www.newsday.com
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