Bowl for Hunger was a Success!

The Second “Bowl for Hunger” was held last night, Tuesday, July 19, 2011. By all accounts, it was a great success, with about 384 bowlers participating in the annual charity event.

The organizers - Assemblyman Coughlin, Michael D’Agnes, President and CEO of Raritan Bay Medical Center, and Dennis Doll, President and CEO of the Middlesex Water Company - wanted to thank everyone for supporting the area’s 32 food banks through their participation. While pledges and donations are still coming in, the event had raised about $12,000 as of Monday. Anyone still wishing to make a donation to the “Bowl for Hunger” cause should contact the Raritan Bay Medical Center Foundation at 732-324-5374.

There was some serious but friendly competition... a bowling challenge between President D’Agnes and President Doll of the Raritan Bay Medical Center and Middlesex Water Company... and other notable bowlers included Senator Joseph F. Vitale, Woodbridge’s Mayor John E. McCormac, Perth Amboy’s Mayor Wilda Diaz, Carteret’s Mayor Daniel J. Reiman, Sayreville’s Mayor Kennedy O’Brien, members of the Sayreville and Woodbridge Municipal Councils, and members of the Perth Amboy Police Department. (I wasn't there... and the information I got didn't say who win. Let's just say it was a good game, and the real winners were the food banks. lol.)

Assemblyman Coughlin, Presidents D’Agnes and Doll thanked the combined seventy-three corporate and individual sponsors:

Almasi Companies, American Academy of Pediatrics, Assemblyman Thomas P. Giblin, Bayshore Recycling Corporation, Berkeley College, Birdsall Service Group, Central Jersey Federal Credit Union, Chris Michaels Steakhouse, The Club at Woodbridge, CME Associates, Columbia Bank, Costello-Greiner, Daniel Harris and Family, The Dressing Room, Dupont, Elizabethtown gas, European School of Dance, F.D Camp, LLC, First Presbyterian Church, South Amboy, Flying Fish Brewing Co., Gerdau Ameristeel, Gill & Chamas, LLC, Gustav A. Fingado IV, Hatch Mott MacDonald, Hilton Woodbridge, Investors Savings Bank, IUOE Local 68, James P. Nolan & Associates, LLC, James P. Durek, Esq., JFK Medical Center, JJ Elek Reality Co., Knot Just Bagels, Larry and Peggy Mayerowitz, The Liberty Group, M-P Electrical Contractors, Inc., Maxwell’s 35, McManimon & Scotland, LLC, MDCC, LLC, Middlesex & Somerset Counties AFL-CIU Labor Council, Middlesex County Buildings & Construction Trades Council, Morris and Clara Weshnak Family Foundation, Northeast Regional Council of Carpenters, Paragano Enterprises, Provident Bank, Raritan Bay Area YMCA, Reliance Insurance LLC, Replay Bar and Grill, Rubin & Raine, Inc., Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland & Perretti, LLP, Saker ShopRites, Inc., Sayreville Seaport Associates, Senator Joseph F. Vitale, The Shannon Rose Irish Pub, Sills Cummis & Gross PC, Sovereign Bank, St. Anthony of Padua Study Hall, Tropical Cheese Industries, Vision Service Plan, VNA of Central Jersey, Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, PA, Woodbridge Center Mall, Woodbridge Chamber of Commerce, Woodbridge Cultural Arts Council, Woodbridge Patch, Woodbridge-Edison-Metuchen-South Amboy YMCA.