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posted 07/22/2008
Gagliotti Family Donates to Watchung Hills Pop Warner
The Gagliotti family of Warren, New Jersey, has donated $100,000 in cash and services to the Watchung Hills Pop Warner Football and Cheer program in honor of their son and brother, Robbie Gagliatti who passed away several years ago. Robbie Gagliotti was an avid football fan who enjoyed football and many other sports. The Watchung Hills Pop Warner organization will honor his memory by dedicating the field in his name which will now be called the “Robbie A. Gagliotti Memorial Field”.
" It gives me great pleasure to honor the Gagliotti family, by re- naming the Pop Warner East County Reserve Complex the "Robbie A Gagliotti Memorial Field". With the unwavering support and commitment of our Mayor and Township Committee, WHPW has worked hard to provide our kids with a first class, and safe environment. The generous donation from the Gagliotti Family will improve what is already a terrific complex. Now the more than 200 families, who participate in WHPW, will enjoy watching their sons and daughters from comfortable bleachers, get updates on our new scoreboard, and have their practice field protected with a chain link fence. Everyone benefits from kind acts like this...and now the Gagliotti family can honor Robbie forever" said Watchung Hills Pop Warner President, George Lazo.
The Gagliotti family has been a member of the Watchung Hills Pop Warner family for several years and they have both a son and daughter who participate in the program.
On hand for the donation presentation were Robbie’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Gagliotti, his brother and sister-in-law Gary and Rita Gagliotti, Mayor Gary Dinardo and Township Committee members Vic Sordillo and Carolann Garafolo. The presentation was made during the Watchung Hills Pop Warner annual golf outing fundraiser which was held on Friday, June 20th at Fiddler’s Elbow Country Club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
Watchung Hills Pop Warner is a non-profit organization which has been providing football and cheer instruction to area boys and girls for the past 35 years. In 2006 the program opened the Watchung Hills Pop Warner Football Complex located at 101 Old Stirling Road in Warren. The complex includes a state-of-the-art FieldTurf athletic surface and a completely renovated field house which includes a snack shack, meeting rooms, locker room and storage area. The program also installed a new sod practice field with a sprinkler system in 2007.
Additional information can be found at Watchung Hills Pop Warner’s website at www.whpw.org.
