Golf outing benefits Catholic Missionaries, St. Barnabas

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A run-down clinic in Teotepeque, El Salvador is set to receive a facelift and new medical equipment, thanks to St. Barnabas and a local charity.

The non-profit Swing into Action is hosting its fifth annual charity golf outing for Cleveland Catholic missionaries serving in El Salvador. It will be at Gleneagles Golf Course in Twinsburg Aug. 8 with a 10 a.m. shotgun start. The cost is $90 per golfer and includes a continental breakfast, lunch, dinner by Blue Canyon Restaurant, beverages and prizes. The event will also feature auctions, skins games and other games of chance.

"Last year, we were able to purchase 13 laptop computers and Internet access for a very needy high school in El Salvador," said Joyce Colovas, executive director for Swing into Action. "The children were so grateful that they thanked us with an all-school assembly in our honor. It was one of the most touching things I have ever witnessed in my life."

This year, the proceeds will be used to equip a very meager medical clinic with some basic medical and office supplies, such as infant and adult scales, a dehumidifier, paint, a laptop computer, file cabinets and other office supplies. Members of St. Barnabas Catholic Church in Northfield will personally take the supplies to the clinic on their first mission trip to El Salvador in January 2009. The group of 10 will gut the clinic, re-paint it and organize the medical files which are now resting in boxes on the dirt floor.

Call 330-467-7959 for details.