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The Miller Harris Foundation Announces 10th Annual Golf Tournament Proceeds Benefit Children with Asthma

Nashville, TN- (September 2009) The Miller Harris Foundation will host their 10th Annual Golf Tournament benefiting children with Asthma on Monday, September 14th, 2009. The best-ball scramble (180 players) will be held at Temple Hills Golf Course, in Franklin, TN with a shotgun start at 10:00 a.m. sharp. Individual playing spots are $150 and sponsorships range from $200 and up. Please contact The Miller Harris Foundation at 615-242-2842 or email millerharris@comcast.net to sign up to play.

Over 471,000 Tennesseans have asthma and over 118,000 of them are children. Asthma is the number one reason children miss school – accounting for 14 million lost school days annually. Asthma takes the lives of more than 100 Tennesseans each year.

“For ten years the Miller Harris Foundation has raised thousands of dollars for asthma education, a music scholarship at MTSU and the Miller Harris Asthma Camp for Kids, the only asthma camp in Middle Tennessee. We strive to help our community and especially children with asthma. The tournament has always been a huge success with over 200 players from music row or local businesses around Nashville as well as participants from out of the state. It is a great time of golf, music and fun,” says Sheila Marczak, Executive Director Miller Harris Foundation

The Miller Harris Foundation is a nonprofit (501c3) organization established in 2002 by family and friends of Miller Harris, who died tragically from an asthma attack at the age of twenty-five. The Foundation funds programs such as the Miller Harris Asthma Camp for Kids, a partnership with Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt and the Joe C. Davis YMCA Outdoor Center. The Foundation established this unique five-day summer camp experience for children ages 6-13 with asthma whose health has made it difficult for them to attend a regular summer camp. Each kid is able to attend camp free of charge and receive on-site medical supervision by teams of volunteer physicians, nurses and respiratory therapists to help monitor and teach them how to better manage their asthma with daily educational sessions. This is the ONLY asthma camp in Middle Tennessee!

Source- Splash! Public Relations