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Local Charities In Spotlight on Sat, February 10, North Shore Park

Boys and Girls Club, Friends of the Sunshine Center, Habitat for Humanity, Saint Petersburg Free Clinic, among those included.

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Kids and Kubs work with charities has been well documented during the Club's 94 year History. Pictured here is at a benefit game that netted $612 for Children's Service Fund at All Children's Hospital (Kids and Kubs Archives St Pete Museum of History digitized by Rob Moorman, Moorman Photo Graphics and Eric Mathre, Mathre Com, Inc. 2018. )
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Ed Asay distributes donations checks between games at Annual Mayor's game. Money comes from 51% of Trust Fund earnings. The Fund was established 1981. (Moorman Photographics)
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Mayor Ken Welch's City Hall Stars team, composed of four city council members and other senior city government staff, will take the field against an All-Star squad selected by the Kids and Kubs membership. (Moorman Photographics)

Since 1981, the Kids and Kubs (aka Three-Quarter Century Softball Club) has been awarding 51% of its trust fund's earnings every year to local charities during an intermission between softball games involving the Tasco Teens Club of Saint Petersburg and the Mayor of Saint Petersburg City Hall Stars.

On tap, this year to receive donations are Boys and Girls Club, Friends of the Sunshine Center, Habitat for Humanity, Saint Petersburg Free Clinic, Suncoast Hospice, Family Enrichment Services, Dinner and Duds For Homeless, Neighborly Care Network, Saint Petersburg Museum of History, and the Tasco Teen Center Based programs.

Championed by Ed Asay, former Board Secretary and now Board member, the "Day" and softball games have become the highlight of the Softball Club's 36-game IntraClub Schedule. Ed will present local charity donations between the day's softball games.

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The Tasco Teens will bring their youthful squad to North Shore Park for an 8:15 batting practice and 9AM game with the Kids and Kubs contingent. The mayor's team, composed of four city council members and other senior city government staff, will take the field against an All-Star squad selected by the Kids and Kubs membership at 11:30 AM. Batting practice will begin at 11:15.

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