Nearly $20,000 Raised Thus Far in 2010!

ABOUT THE AAMCF

The American Amusement Machine Charitable Foundation, (AAMCF), sponsors fundraising events throughout the year and during the Amusement Showcase International (ASI), with a portion of the proceeds going to worthwhile children's charities.

In the past, donations have been made to Give Kids the World, Tomorrow's Children Fund, Boy's and Girl's Clubs of America, U.S. Special Olympics, Always Kids, UNICEF, and various other nationally recognized organizations. 

This year AAMCF will be working with the Children's Miracle Network (CMN) and Kids Enjoy Exercise Now (K.E.E.N.).

Help those who need it the most by supporting the AAMCF, you'll be glad you did.

11^th Annual Charity Golf Outing Kicks Off A Positive Week For Coin-Op

Elk Grove Village, IL - March 29, 2010 - The American Amusement Machine Charitable Foundation proudly celebrated the 11^th annual Charity Golf Tournament on Tuesday, March 9^th at the Red Rock Country Club in Las Vegas, NV.  Some of the industries brave men and women bundled up and took on the Arroyo course, after witnessing the miraculous pre tee time snow flurries.  Despite the weather and the state of the economy, many members of the Coin-Op industry came out to support the charitable foundation and the children’s charities that benefit from AAMCF donations. 

This year’s outing offered some new events, such as the Female Caddy Raffle, which was sponsored by Apple Industries.  Golfers were given the opportunity to purchase raffle tickets for a chance to win a female caddy for the day.  3 lucky winners were accompanied throughout the day by one of the lovely ladies.  

The AAMCF would also like to thank the following sponsors: AMI Entertainment, Lunch Sponsor; Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, Beverage Cart Sponsor; MegaTouch, Hole In One Sponsor and MEI, Prize Sponsor. For the 3^rd year, Firestone Financial, in additional to sponsoring 3 holes, honored their “Platinum Club” members during the event with an additional $500.00 donation to the AAMCF. 

We would like to recognize the following companies as 3 hole sponsors, BayTek Games, Betson Enterprises, Brady Distributing, Fannie Farkle’s, Firestone Financial, Innovative Concepts In Entertainment (ICE) and Valley-Dynamo.  The hole sponsors for the event were American Changer Corp., Arachnid, Bromley, Century Gaming, Coast to Coast Entertainment, Coastal Amusements, Coin-Op Today/The Resource Book, Ecast Inc., Elaut USA Inc., Game Exchange of Colorado, Global VR, Grand Products, H.A. Franz, James Industries, JVL, LAI Games, Lieberman Companies, Moss Distributing, Redemption Plus, RePlay Magazine, Smart Industries, Suzo-Happ and the Pelican Group.

The golfers enjoyed the swag bags that they received, with items provided by AAMA, AMOA, Children’s Miracel Network, Firestone Financial and Suzo-Happ.  Additional prizes were donated by AMC Distributing and Family Fun Companies.  Golfers were photographed throughout the outing by Don Marshall of Marshall Productions, who donated his services and pictures.  Thank you again to all of those whose generosity made this outing possible. 

Several golfers were presented with prizes during the March 10^th Amusement Expo Party.  We would like to congratulate Sean Hanna, John Hernandez, Richard Scherer and Steve Walton for taking home 1^st Place Team Gross.  Jerry Johnston, Jim Marsh, Dane Smith and Ken Wade for 2^nd Place Team Gross, Jon W. Brady, John Estridge, Greg Kania and Britain White for 3^rd Place Team Gross.  We also awarded 1^st Place Team Net to Mike Bocelli, Marc Pinard, Francois Lachance and Marjory Mccahill.  2^nd Place Team Net went to Gaines Butler, Troy Estonpinal, Bill Hampton and Steve Lyons.  3^rd Place Team Net went to Bill Morgan, Tom Wood and Dave Marofske, Jr.

Congratulations to this year’s most honest golfer, Kevin Claussen.  The AAMCF would like to acknowledge some additional prize winners; Closest to the Pin (Men’s) Ken Wade, Britain White; (Women’s) Marjory Mccahill, Donna Brewer; Closest to the Pin (Any) Steve Walton; Closest to the Pin in 3, Steve Walton; Longest Drive (Men’s) Andy Shaffer and Longest Drive (Women’s) Donna Brewer.  Thank you to all who participated in this year’s outing.

We base our success on the support of our members and the coin-op community, without whom we would be unable to contribute to and support various children’s charities.