Submitted Photo Pictured is a scene from the first CHRIC Classic Golf Tournament.

Chautauqua Home Rehabilitation & Improvement Corporation (CHRIC) will be holding its 2nd Annual CHRIC Classic Golf Tournament on Saturday, July 29 at the Chautauqua Golf Club, 4731 West Lake Road, Chautauqua.

Josh Freifeld, Executive Director and the CHRIC Board of Directors invite the public to come join CHRIC for a day of golfing and fun! Be part of a great event and take a chance on a Hole in One on Par 3 to win a car sponsored by Basil Chevrolet-Buick-Cadillac. Other sponsors for this event are Integrated Benefit Solutions, Community Bank N.A., Lakewood Rod & Gun Club, Northwest Bank, Lake Shore Savings, John R. Samuelson, Attorney at Law, Mary & Pat Grant, Tolman Engineering, Architecture & Surveying, PLLC, Chautauqua Transportation Services, Inc., Dr. Len Faulk & Carole Faulk, Founder & 1st Executive Director of CHRIC.

Registration and lunch start at noon with a 1 p.m. Shotgun Start on Lake Course. The entry fee is $100 a player or $400 a foursome, which includes 18 holes of golf with cart, lunch, two drink tickets, appetizers, cocktails and dinner. For friends and family wishing to join in the dinner festivities, there is a $30 dinner only option. All proceeds go to helping low-moderate income families’ right here in Chautauqua County.

For 39 years, Chautauqua Home Rehabilitation and Improvement Corporation (CHRIC) has provided housing services to low-income residents in Chautauqua County and has addressed the needs of thousands of housing units over the decades, both single-family homes and apartments. Throughout its history, CHRIC has concentrated its services on the elderly, veterans, disabled and children. CHRIC has provided assistance for handicapped modifications to bathrooms, kitchens and built wheelchair ramps which have allowed elderly and disabled people to stay in their homes. Without this work, many would have been forced to leave their houses. CHRIC has been helped landlords make their rental properties lead-safe. CHRIC also has a First-Time Homeownership Education Program.

CHRIC has brought in millions of dollars in funding for Community Development Projects for: Sherman Main Street, Dunkirk Lighthouse & Veteran’s Park Museum Retaining Wall and Roof Restoration, the Sinclairville Senior Center, Restoration of the Historic Brocton Arch, Bemus Point Waterfront Revitalization, Town of Sheridan’s Silver Creek Senior Center and most recently, Brocton Main Street.

In all of these years, CHRIC has depended on local, state and federal grants to carry out its work, but those resources are becoming difficult to access. The reality is that funds for providing people with safe, decent housing are becoming hard to find.

Now, CHRIC is asking the community for support. The population of Chautauqua County is growing older and poorer, and the housing stock in the County is among the oldest in the nation. The need to insure that all people are safe within their dwellings has not disappeared.

For Golf Entry Forms or Sponsorship Opportunities please contact CHRIC at: 753-4650 or CHRIC, 2 Academy St., Mayville, NY 14757-1050. Forms are also available on CHRIC’s Website: www.chric.org