LTE: All-Star Softball Game Raises $5,400 for CAC

Dear Editor,

What a day it was for Church League Softball! The traditional “All Star” baseball break has included a local All Star game of players from the Church League. This year the format changed a bit with the mixing of a wider pool of players, a “friendship scramble,” in a day-long tourney that resulted in a final championship game #5.

Sons of fathers on opposing teams performed magnificently and despite the rivalry proud fathers bumped and hugged them to congratulate them. All played for fun, but they had a mission, too.

The tourney has been the Church League’s Fun and Fundraiser for the for twenty-three years and each year the players would go that extra mile to play the benefit game. Now this year it was plural – games – and it was still as hot a day as ever, but that could also be due to all the warm hearts out on the field.

The proceeds this year will amount to almost $5,400 to the CAC in support of its programs and services, and the CAC is very grateful to the players, officials, organizers and sponsors and to the families who supported the players all day long! A big “Thank you” to all of them for helping the CAC conduct its mission to “promote a healthy, caring and just community for all people through resources, advocacy and volunteer effort.”

Grateful as ever,

Jim Blaha
Executive Director
Community Action Center of Northfield, Inc.