The Cheyney University C Club, Inc. is pleased to share that local celebrity Shawnette Wilson, Reporter, FOX 29 News will be joining us for the non-golfer activities at the Wade Wilson Golf Tournament and Silent Auction on Monday, August 19.
Start the morning with a light breakfast before competing against friends at pinochle or pokeno. New to the game? We don't mind showing you the ropes so you can hold your own at the card table.
This year, our paint and sip art session will be held at Penn Oaks Golf Club, so you can take a stroll on the beautiful grounds and pose for pictures by the fountain or gazebo before participating in a fun art session hosted by Pinot's Palette and featuring Shawnette Wilson, Reporter, FOX 29 News.
Show off your brush strokes as you paint your own interpretation of the sample artwork featuring the theme,"Family is…"
After the art session, enjoy beer and wine as you browse the silent auction and bid on your favorite collectibles or vacation getaway before the awards banquet begins in the ballroom.
The chefs at Penn Oaks Golf Club are preparing a delicious buffet-style meal featuring salmon, beef, chicken and vegetable dining options.
Eat, drink, and fellowship as we announce the Top Finishers, prizes…and how much money we raised towards The Cheyney C Club's $30,000 fundraising goal!
Are you ready for your next charity experience? Register as a non-golfer today!
Want to hit the links instead? We have activities and entertainment scheduled throughout the day for golfers as well! Click here to learn how you can help The Cheyney C Club make an impact on or off the greens.
All proceeds from the Wade Wilson Golf Tournament will benefit student-athletes in need of scholarship support at Cheyney University of Pennsylvania.
If you are intersted in becoming a chairty golf tournament sponsor, placing an advertisement in the souvenir ad booklet, or registering to attend the Wade Wilson Golf Tournament & Silent Auction on Monday, August 19, please contact C Club President Yasheaka Oakley Owens ’11 by calling (267) 980-5012 or emailing cclubcu@gmail.com.
Shawnette Wilson joined the FOX 29 News team in January 2007, as a general assignment reporter and fill-in anchor. She then went on to anchor the former Fox 29 mid-day news and after that Fox 29 Morning News. She can currently be seen Monday through Friday reporting for the 10 and 11 pm news.
Shawnette came to Philadelphia from the CBS station WBTV/WJZY in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she anchored the 10 o’clock weeknight news and reported for the station’s 11 pm newscast. She previously worked as a reporter and then anchor of the 6, 10 and 11 pm news at the ABC station WJCL in Savannah, Georgia. Shawnette also worked as an anchor/reporter for local cable news station PV3 in Westminster, Maryland. She spent about a year working as an assignment desk assistant at Fox5 in Atlanta Georgia between on-air jobs.
Shawnette received Emmy nominations from The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for two long-format enterprise stories on stranger danger/child abductions and sextortion involving children victimized and blackmailed by online predators over sexual images of the victim. She is most proud of producing long-format stories like her series on the heroin epidemic affecting young people and pregnant women and young convicted felons returning to society to name a few.
The Baltimore, Maryland, native is a graduate of Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus, in New York. She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., and the National Association of Black Journalists. She loves working with young children and mentoring teens. She also writes poetry and loves musicals. Her favorite little people in the world are her two nieces and three nephews.