Every school, every club needs great ideas to supplement the sausage sizzles and annual trivia nights. But what to do? How to inject a little fun, ‘newness’ and excitement – and how to make the most for the least effort!

How about the school yard car wash? Simple, fun (for most) and you can involve the kids in the work – which teaches the value of a dollar earned. You can earn decent money per wash, the cost inputs are minimal and a swarm of kids makes light work of it.

Support your team and promote the club at the same time. (more…)

SEABROOK — Friends and family members of Winnacunnet High School student Matt Denis continue to show support for the Seabrook teen who was seriously injured when he was struck by a car while riding his bike across Lafayette Road in Seabrook on April 12.

On Thursday afternoon Denis remained at Boston Children’s Hospital, where he was listed in critical condition following surgery last weekend. (more…)

During an injury rehab stint with the West Michigan Whitecaps in 2008, Yankees outfielder Curtis Granderson, then with the Detroit Tigers, noticed a memorial outside of the stadium in honor of Brian Bluhm, a fan of his who had been killed in the Virginia Tech shootings in 2007.

“From that point it kind of escalated to the point of meeting his family and doing different things like getting his name announced at Tigers games, getting a jersey in memory of him,” Granderson said.  (more…)

When doctors told Judd Katzen the best case scenario facing his daughter Emma was leukemia, he couldn’t believe what he was hearing.

“I thought they had made a mistake,” he said. “I thought they can’t be saying that.”

It was a Friday night in early February at Hasbro Children’s Hospital. Prior to that day, Emma’s life was that of a normal seventh-grader. A tennis player with an interest in photography, she finished her fourth year of cheerleading with the local Pop Warner squad last fall. (more…)