Denville
PAL

 

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Denville PAL sets hoops signups:
 Coaches, refs, sponsors needed

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     DENVILLE - Registration is now open for the 2010-11 Denville PAL Basketball program at www.DenvilleBasketball.com. 
     The program is open to all boys and girls in grades 2 through 12 who reside or go to school in Denville.  Players can join the Travel League (players selected based on skill level, with half of the games played in other towns) or the Recreation League (fun league).       Travel team tryouts begin on Monday, Oct. 4; the deadline for the rec league is Sunday, Oct. 31. Early registration is urged.
     Rutgers certified coaches, youth referees and team sponsors are also needed.    More information is available at www.DenvilleBasketball.com.

Saving more Valleyview  programs
     DENVILLE - The Performing Arts Booster Club, formed to support the chorus and spring musical at Valleyview School, will sponsor a one-day Musical Theater Masterclass workshop at the school on Monday, Nov. 16, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
    The workshop will be conducted by the New York City Broadway Artists Alliance and will feature dance combinations from Broadway shows, mock auditions, scene study and listening to performers talk about a day in the life of a working New York City actor or performer.
    The workshop is open for boys and girls from Grades 5 through 12 and there is a fee of $25 for each participant with the money going to support the Valleyview School chorus and spring musical.
    Jennifer Johns, a 29-year veteran with many stage, movie and TV credits, and Tyrick Jones, a Broadway veteran ("Finian's Rainbow" presently and a four-year stint in "Hairspray" among others), are the teaching artists who will conduct the workshop.
Wrestling, hoops programs saved
at Denville's Valleyview School
     DENVILLE - The Denville PAL and a group of young athletes from Valleyview Middle School presented the Denville Board of Education with checks for $16,400 and $7,200 on Monday, Oct. 26, that will enable the school to continue its basketball and wrestling programs.
    The presentation came after many months of fund raising and continuing efforts to restore the extracurricular activities that were discontinued when the township's voters last spring defeated a school budget question that would have funded the programs and many others.
    Shown above are (left to right): Danny Bias, Denville Board of Education president Seth Johnson, Matt Stark, Denville PAL Officer Paul Nigro, PAL Basketball board member Fritz Mott and Valleyview Brianna Mott, Giulia Vitolo, Lexie Boller, Lexi Finn and Giaci Vitolo.
     For information on how to contribute to the fund-raising program to help save other activities, please visit www.DenvilleKids.org.
Brianna Mott (left to right), Giulia Vitolo and Lexie Boller work at a Denville PAL fundraising table on Broadway in Denville recently to help save their Valleyview School basketball team. (See two Photo Albums below)

In photo above, Kristine Loeffler, left, and Laura Carpenter, right, members of the Valley view School Cheerleading Booster Club, present a check to Seth Johnson of the Denville Board of Education on behalf of the Valleyview cheerleaders. The money, which will be used to fund the cheerleading program for the school year, was obtained through the fund raising efforts of the cheerleaders and their parents and the generous support of the Denville PAL. In the photo below, Johnson accepts a check from Beverly Shreck (left to right), Donna Hennessey and Rosemary Troccoli that represents money raised to fund the Valleyview School Yearbook for another year. To see where the fund-raising is for other extra-curicular activies at Valleyview, please visit the "Denville PAL" page, where you can read Fritz Mott's updated "open letter" to his fellow Denville residents and be redirected to the Denville Kid's Enrichment Fund for additional information.
Denville PAL raises funds
 to save Valleyview X-country
    DENVILLE - The latest Valleyview School sports program to be saved by the Denville PAL is the cross country teams as a check was recently presented to the township?s school district to cover the cost for the boys and girls teams this fall.
     To date, soccer and cheerleading have also been saved with Denville HUB Soccer raising the funds needed to save soccer and the cheerleaders and their parents raising the money needed by the cheerleading squad.
     All the grammar schools? extra-curricular activities were threatened when a line item for these programs on the last school budget was defeated, turning students, coaches and parents into fund-raisers in an effort to secure the money needed to keep these programs afloat for the fall.
     The latest report from the Denville Kids? Enrichment Fund shows that the Art Club, Chorus, Builder?s Club, Junior Builder?s Club, Mock Trial, Safety Patrol, Self Advocacy Club, Student Government and Yearbook activities have also been saved through fund-raisers and donations.
     The fund raising efforts are still in force, however, as many other clubs have yet to reach full funding and the winter sports programs are now just starting their campaigns to save those activities.
     The PAL is seeking funding for the Valleyview boys and girls basketball programs by selling Nets tickets at $25 each for the games of Friday, Oct. 3, against the Magic (8 p.m. start) and Wednesday, Dec. 9, against the Warriors (7:30 p.m. start).
     The Denville PAL basketball teams will perform during halftime of the Nets-Warriors game.
     For more information or to order tickets for either game, please contact Fritz Mott at Fkbbmott@aol.com.
'Family Basketball Night'
A Photo Album

The basketball crowd was out in force on Friday, Aug. 14, when players, parents and fans from the Valleyview School and Denville PAL basketball programs combined forces to participate in the PAL's Family Basketball Night on the Gardner Field Courts in Denville. Jeff Tucker, a member of the Denville PAL, had plenty of his help from his daughter in drawing the must-anticipated winner of the 50-50 raffle that was conducted to benefit Valleyview's extra-curiculr progams.
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The Street Ball Classic
A Photo Album
A good time was had by all at the Denville PAL Street Ball Classic held last month at the Gardner Field courts. The Classic is only one of many events held in order to raise funds to activities scheduled to be cut this fall at Valleyview School because funding for these activities was voted down by the Denville residents.
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