2nd Annual Jillian Latham Memorial Softball Tournament

Another annual Jill Latham Memorial Softball Tournament 2-2 for the books! Saturday, September 28th was a heartwarming, motivational, and emotional day. We had a big Co-ed softball tournament in honor of Jill and this year all proceeds were donated to the sunrise fund.

All together the event raised $4751.00! There are many people to thank that made this day happen:

Stacie and Matt Nicastro- Stacie helped collect numerous donations and bring the event together. They also brought the enormous grill that was borrowed from the JJ nicastro events (thank you Jon Nicastro as well) And Thank you Matt for being the grill master for most of the day!

Jess Delisi- Thank you for making the shirts, gathering sponsors and putting the event together.

Shawna Palmintieri- Thank you for helping shop for all the concession supplies and also pulling the whole tournament together as well.

Amanda Goveny- Thank you for getting teams together and making sure everything was completely legit, not too mention being another huge part of putting the event together.

Sadie Mello- Jill’s favorite niece was the head of the concession stand and helped out immensely in taking in all the proceeds for the day.

Jennifer Beliveau of Jennifer Lee Photography- Thank you for taking pics of the day!

Lou Mcgrath- Thank you for umpiring and getting a crew to help out as well!

Thank you to all the people that donated the 15+ raffle items and baskets.

Thank you to all the businesses that sponsored the T-shirts:

Cape Ann Oil, Cape Ann Travel Service, Captain Hook’s, Celia’s Flowers, F/V WEBB II , Gloucester Boxing, Hoots and Moots, KC White Contracting Inc., Maki’s Moving Co., Marissa and Mike Goodwin, Paramount Financial Solutions, Polaris Sheet Metal, Seasonal Control, The Bridge, and Wolf Hill

And last but not least the volunteers!

Thanks Cat, Emily, Marissa, Krystle, Jess, Jenna, Alicia and all the softball players!

Congratulations to team Sky for winning the whole tournament! Jill would be proud.

As hard as it is to come to this tournament every year, it is always worth it in the end. Jill’s happy place was with all of these girls and guys whenever she played softball, which was one of her main passions in life. It was a beautiful sunny day filled with all the people that she loved, and we thank everyone that was a part of it. :)

Beverly Softball Tournament for Opioid Awareness

We all know that one of the only ways we are going to help tackle the opioid crisis is to bring awareness to this giant issue. We would like to send a huge shout out to Jenn Carter who put on a softball tournament in Beverly in August as a fundraiser for opioid awareness.

This cause is especially near and dear to our hearts because it is actually the last softball tournament Jill got to play in the weekend before she passed away last August. Part of the proceeds of the tournament went to two different organizations that help people with active addiction, one was the North Shore Recovery High School in Beverly and the other was the sunrise fund. They generously donated $1000 to the fund. We are so grateful they chose us as one of their donees, and the people that these funds will help will be even more appreciative when their lives are completely changed because of events like this. Thanks Jenn and all of the players who were involved!

A Thank You to our Sponsors

The Sunrise fund would like to thank every sponsor who helped put on our first annual golf tournament! If it wasn't for you all we would not be able to say we raised $37,479.00 to go directly towards funding treatment for someone going in to recovery!

A special thanks to our Platinum Sponsor

Jim and Judy Destino of Destino's Subs & Catering

F/V William W

Cape Ann Marina

EBI Consulting

J. Barrett Realty 

Cape Ann Lobstermen

Benco Landscaping

Sunteck TTS

Navis Partners LLC

Action Inc. 

Lamb & Ritchie

Cape Ann Savings Bank

St. Pauls Lutheran Church 

Baystate Recovery Services

Witch Dr

Green Vans

Costello Construction & Remodeling

Sudbay Chevrolet Buick Cadillac GMC

Wolf Hill  Preferred Autobody Deborah Coull Salon High Tech Auto Celia's Flowers Pratty's CAV Justine E Laurie CPA PC The Murray Brown Group David Brown, A Gentleman Realtor Adult Foster Care of the NS Jen & Ron Remax Advantage A1 Maintenance & Carpet Cleaners Safeway Overhead Crane Service Ron & Kara Norton Family Foundation Sugar Magnolias KC White Contracting Inc. FW Bryce Good Harbor Group LLC McCormick Kitchen & Baths Cape Ann Lanes Liberty Group Benefits Salem Plumbing J&B Autobody Pinebrook Landscaping FIA Inc. Rose's Marine Timberline Capt. Hooks The Paint Shop Mass Mudders T & J Auto Beauport Financial Gloucester Fleet Building Center Seasonal Control Schlichte & Johnstone Hoots & Moots

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