It’s Scott here at Ben Kruse 18 Fore Life Foundation. It’s Giving Tuesday and in this video, you will find some exciting updates surrounding the 2026 18 FORE Life Gala! We are excited about this new FUNdraiser and hope you will join in the fun and fundraising.

Sincerely,
Scott Kruse

Transcript:
Hey, everybody, it’s Scott with 18 fore life. Several reasons to reach out today. I hope you’ll take the time to check this out. I’ll try to be brief, but it is Giving Tuesday. And we just we just think that if you if you’re going to consider any donations here at the end of the year, we want to be part of that consideration here at 18 fore life. You know. We we hope that you will, consider adding us to the list if you do give end of the year donations. We’ve got a lot of 2026 gala information to share with you. And that may be a great way to kind of kill two birds with one stone. You may want to make that end of the year contribution, but you may want to support this new event that’s coming, January 24th. We just thank Scott and Angie Layden at the Meadows for hosting this. They’re doing a lot of brainstorming, a lot of work behind the scenes to get this going. Chad and Melanie Calvert with CMO selfie will be there. One thing about their photo booth. It may not be all the crazy stuff this year. We want to give adults the opportunity to get get a more of a formal picture of them and their date. We don’t think adults do that anymore, and kids are real good at it, but but adults aren’t. And so maybe it’s an opportunity for you and your, your date to get a really nice photo. So we we’re excited about that. We’ve added $1,000 tables of eight because we really don’t have assigned seating for this thing. Tickets are $50. Everyone’s welcome. It’s going to be a nice, fun, formal night out. But if you would want to, go a little bit above and beyond and you’ve got a group of eight, you might want to pay a little bit extra. We we set the price of $1,000. And we’re going to call these love offering tables because that’s that’s what we send out the families fighting cancer. So you could almost, know that every bit of that is going right to a family. We figure there are people that would like to sit with certain people, things like that. So. So take that into consideration and go to the website again. You can get tickets at 18 for life.com. Individual tickets are $50. If you would want to reserve a table of eight for you in your game. It’s $1,000. And and again, we I think we’ve got four of those available right now. They’ll help us cover the expenses and, and, also again, just be another way to, to contribute and maybe do a little bit above and beyond. And we appreciate that always. We’ve limited the tickets now to 200. Angie’s doesn’t want to overextend their space of the meadows and with with with, with all that we’ve got going on, we feel like 200 is going to be the right number. So again, don’t don’t let time run out on you on that. And go ahead and get your tickets now. They will go on sale all the way through until, until we sell this thing out. And then the last thing I want to, tell you about is a wine and bourbon pool. We’re going to have the opportunity to, to. Purchase a golf ball that will have a number on it. We will have, kind of anonymous bags of wine or good bourbon. Maybe not so good wine or good bourbon. You kind of don’t know. But you’re going to be able to purchase a golf ball, and, and then you’re going to get to kind of take your pick up there and, and we’re going to call that the the wine and bourbon pool. Specifically, it’s going to it’s going to go something like this. We’re seeking and we’re also seeking donations for these bottles. If you if you would like to drop by a bottle of wine, a bottle of bourbon, good or bad or indifferent. I promise I won’t get rid of that before the 24th. I’ll put it away. But we’re going to get as many bottles as we can. We’re going to sell as many golf balls as we can. And you’re going to have a chance to to pull, a bottle of bourbon or a bottle of wine. So it seems pretty simple. It should add to a lot of fun. We’re also going to have, a new auction, app that we’ll use. We’re going to get 3 or 4 really nice items. We’re going to auction those off, and, those will be live. Two weeks prior, to the event. And then we will finalize those that night on the screen and with the app, people can be bidding against each other where you’re whether you’re at the gala, whether you live in Missouri or whether you live in Oregon, you’ll be able to kind of participate. And we feel like that’ll make for a really fun, addition to this event as well. We’ve got more to add, and we’ll keep making these announcements. But the main thing is, is just get your tickets, be a part of this. And again, we thank you at 18 for life for just, you know, again, adding us to the list of great charities that you consider donating to. Especially here at the end of the year. And, we hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We look forward to the Christmas holidays. And again, as we go into the New Year, we’re really excited about the 20 2618 For Life Gala, and, we hope you can join us. Whether you purchase a couple tickets and, and bring your, bring your date or whether you, buy a love offering table for a thousand, it’s all the same. Does it just add some more fun that night? And we look forward to seeing all of you all there. So you guys have a great day. Thanks for watching. I’ll talk to you again next time.