P.S. 8 PTA holds golf outing to raise funds for school
It rained throughout most of last week, but the weather cleared on Saturday just in time for the P.S. 8 Parent Teacher Association to hold its inaugural golf outing at Marine Park to raise money for the school.
“We wanted to do something to help raise some money and when we started talking about a golf outing it got a lot of interest pretty quickly,” said John Keegan, who helped to organize the event. “It was a great time, a wonderful day and we got some beautiful weather.”
This is just part of an ongoing effort by the PTA to get more parents and teachers involved in fundraising activities. Previously, many PTA members and other parents didn’t get involved in the many craft fairs and children’s parties. During the past three years some members have begun holding events like softball games, wine and whiskey tastings, and now a golf outing.
“There was an entire segment of the PTA population that was left out of a lot of events,” said Tony Lacitignola, another member that helped organize the event. “When we started asking about golf we got an overwhelming response from people that liked the idea. So we started by saying, let’s see if we can get 40 players and we ended up getting close to 60.”