ALOHA, Ore. -- Champions Tour Wives, Inc. will donate $20,000 to the Cystic Fibrosis Gift Fund at the Pediatric Pulmonology and Cystic Fibrosis Center of Doernbecher Children’s Hospital in Portland during this week’s JELD-WEN Tradition. In addition to the donation, the Wives will visit the hospital at 10 a.m. on Wednesday to tour the facility and visit with doctors and patients.

Champions Tour Wives member Peggy Gilder and her husband, Bob, a five-time winner on the Champions Tour, live in Corvallis, Ore.,, and have experienced the effects of Cystic Fibrosis first hand. Their grandson, Hunter, has been battling the disease.

“On behalf of the Champions Tour Wives, it is our privilege to assist the Cystic Fibrosis Center in helping to meet the needs of Cystic Fibrosis patients at Doernbecher Children’s Hospital. Because Bob and I have a grandson, Hunter, with Cystic Fibrosis it gives me added pleasure that the Champions Tour Wives have chosen this charity as one of its recipients this year,” Gilder said.

The $20,000 donation to the Cystic Fibrosis Gift Fund is a portion of the $119,000 Champions Tour Wives, Inc. will donate during the 2005 season. Champions Tour Wives, Inc. will continue its “Be a Champion” fundraising initiative at the JELD-WEN Tradition as well, selling wristbands to support various women’s and children’s charities.

Champions Tour Wives, Inc. began in 1995 with a mission to helping others through organizations that promote assistance to and benefit women, their families and their many different needs. Since it inception Champions Tour Wives, Inc. has raised more than $2 million for over 50 charities across the nation. In addition to fundraising activities, the Champions Tour Wives also make charity visits in the communities where Champions Tour events are held. Their activities range from reading to children in schools to rocking babies in hospital nurseries.