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Soccer for Sandy Benefit Aims to Help Storm Victims

Two Bayport travel teams are raising funds to help out communities needing help.

Two Bayport BU16 Travel soccer teams are turning game competition this weekend into a fundraising event for the American Red Cross to help those still dealing from the wrath of Sandy.

Players from the Bayport Rovers and Raging Storm will contribute $10 to play each other Sunday at 10:30 a.m. on Field 1 or 2 at the Cherry Avenue fields in West Sayville, and asking people to come out and watch a great competitive match and enjoy a bake sale, a 50/50 raffle and a raffle for a show at Creative Ministries.

The idea was the brainchild of Rovers coaches Doug Morrell, Meador Pratt and  Ed O'Donnell and Frank Mazzie, James Jankowski and Joe Pizzurro for the Raging Storm.

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John Thompson May 19, 2013 at 10:26 pm
And so the taxpayer is once again asked to give more to an already out of control and bloatedRead More system. Every year the school districts on Long Island receive increases of millions of dollars to their budgets, and still they want to bleed the taxpayer for more. As two income families struggle to pay exorbitant tax bills, we’re asked to pay even more? We’ll here’s a novel idea, how about if the teachers union’s began demanding less? This early retirement baloney must stop, salaries should be capped, administrators and their staffs must be cut by at least eighty percent. In addition, educators and staff should have to pay for their own medical and retirement plans just as the rest of us must. Here on Long Island, families are suffering and sacrificing, and many are being forced to leave due to taxes which are out of control. It is time for educators to cease hiding behind children with threats of decreased student programs, and to make an honest and realistic observation as to why things are as bad as they are. To blame parents for not paying enough into the system to support the schools is ludicrous. The real problem lies in a system which is self serving, and run by incompetents blind to the harm they are inflicting upon our children and families.