To the Editor:

The Long Beach Township PTA and the Beach Haven PTA along with Long Beach Township PBA Local #373 will be the charitable recipients for its 21st Annual Striped Bass Derby. This event will be held on the weekend of Oct. 27-29.

Our local PTAs provide invaluable in-school assemblies as well as after-school programs to the some 300 Long Beach Island grade school children. Their programs exist only with the help of private donations.

October 18, 2017