Worth the fight
PBA Hockey Team scores big again with donations
By now, the extracurriculars that took place during the
PBA Hockey team’s game against the Philadelphia Police De-
partment on March 7 have become the stuff of legends. The
jokes are still flying about the first-period roughhousing, if
not the punches.
But the PBA hockey team pulled no punches with anoth-
er record-setting fundraising performance centered around
this game that was played midweek of the 2018 Mini Conven-
tion. At the April PBA meeting, Team Manager Mike Schulze
of Monmouth County Sheriffs Officers Local 314 presented a series of checks to support an amazing array of causes.
By motivating PBA Locals to donate $100 each, the event
raised more than $17,000. Of that, $15,000 was donated to
the PBA Survivor & Welfare Fund. The game was played to
honor Atlantic City Local 24 member Josh Vadell, who is re-
covering from a traumatic brain injury caused by a gunshot
to the head in 2016. The hockey team donated $2,000 to the
Josh Vadell Foundation and also gave $500 to Atlantic City
Local 24, which helped organize the event and sell t-shirts to
raise money at the game. d
PBA hockey team members presented a $15,000 check to President Pat Col-
ligan and Executive Vice President Marc Kovar for the PBA Survivor & Wel-
fare Fund. The money was raised at the game against Philly police during
the Mini Convention in March. The hockey team also made a donation to Atlantic City Local 24, which Pres-
ident Matt Rogers, second from left, and State Delegate Mike Auble, second
from right, accepted.
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