Elizabethtown Gas provides $20,000 in grants to local youth sports

Elizabethtown Gas, 520 Green Lane, Union, has announced the winners of its annual Game On Grant Program. Twenty $1,000 grants will be awarded to help provide critical support to local, community-centered children’s athletic programs, leagues, clubs, associations and recreational organizations.

“At Elizabethtown Gas, we care about the communities where we live and work,” said Christie McMullen, president and chief operating officer, Elizabethtown Gas. “We’re proud to partner with this year’s Game On Grant recipients and support them in their missions to provide safe and fun activities for kids in our region.”

Since the program’s inception in 2021, Elizabethtown Gas has contributed $53,000 toward community-centered children’s athletic programs.

The 2023 Game On Grant Program recipients are: Skylands Field Hockey Association, Linden Recreation, Bethlehem Township Recreation, Long Valley Cheer, Girls on the Run of Hunterdon, Mansfield Softball, Flemington Raritan Baseball, North Hunterdon Youth Baseball, Hackettstown Football, Scotch Plains/Fanwood Soccer, Hackettstown Recreational Baseball, Scotch Plains/Fanwood Baseball, Delaware Valley Basketball League, Lenape Valley Youth Baseball and Softball, Lambertville/West Amwell Baseball, Lambertville Ramblers Youth Football and Cheer, Vernon Youth Football and Cheer, Youth Softball of Westfield, Wolfpack Hockey League and Clark Township.

The Game On Grant Program will be offered again in February 2024. For more information, visit elizabethtowngas.com/community.

In Memoriam

• BUSALACCHI – Angela, of Union; May 12. Worked for many years at Mr. Pizza in Union. Widow, mother, aunt, grandaunt.

• GIGLIO – Lucille, of Mountainside, formerly of Sicily, Newark and Union; May 11. Loved cooking, gardening, crocheting. Wife, mother, grandmother, 78.

• MURNANE – Michael J., of Union, formerly of Ireland and Elizabeth; April 22. Worked for Prudential Insurance Co. Widower, father, grandfather, 89.

• PFEIFFER – Margaret “Marge,” of Toms River, formerly of Union; May 8. Widow, mother, sister, grandmother, great-grandmother, 87.

• RICIGLIANO – Barbara, of Union; April 22. Widow, mother, grandmother, 89.

• SIMONS – Sandra “Sandy,” formerly of Union; May 15. Widow, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, 84.

• ZORN – Werner R., of Newark, Del., formerly of Pforzheim, Germany, and Union; April 20. Chemical engineer. Father, brother, grandfather, 82.

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