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By The Emporia Gazette (Contact)
Originally published 01:37 p.m., March 6, 2008
Updated 01:37 p.m., March 6, 2008
Snowball Softball
Emporia State University’s Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity will hold its annual Snowball Softball tournaments on Friday and Saturday at South Avenue Fields. Ten coed teams and eight men’s teams will participate in the benefit tournaments, which this year are raising money to buy textbooks for Emporia elementary schools. Pool play begins at 6 p.m. Friday and will run all night until 6 a.m. Saturday. Then at 11 a.m., single-elimination tournaments for each group begin.
“I’ve been looking at the weather, and it definitely looks like it’s going to be a real snowball tournament, because it’s supposed to be getting down into the single digits,” Sigma Tau organizer Scott Johnson said.
There’s no admission charge. People can make donations directly or by buying concessions. Last year, the event raised $2,900 for the Emporia Public Library’s public literacy program. The goal for this year’s textbook campaign is $3,000.
Democrat event
Barbara Fowler, Kansas Democratic Party secretary, and James Bordonaro, candidate for 1st District Congress, led a delegation of over a dozen area Democrats to the party’s Washington Days celebration Friday and Saturday in Topeka. Rachel Rees, president of Emporia State University Young Democrats, attended the Kansas Young Democrats Convention on Sunday.
The Rev. Jim Akers of Madison gave the invocation at Friday evening’s banquet.