Grab Chick-Fil-A For Dinner Tonight, Help Feed Brick's Vernon Hankins Scholarship Fund

If you haven’t decided what to do for dinner tonight, supporters of the Vernon Hankins Scholarship Fund would urge you to consider Chick-Fil-A.

The Brick franchise of the fast-food chicken restaurant, at 522 Route 70, east of the Garden State Parkway, will donate 15 percent of each sale accompanied by the above flyer to the scholarship fund.

The fund honors the memory of Vernon Hankins, an artist and musician and a beloved coach and teacher at Brick Township High School. Hankins, who was born in Point Pleasant and grew up in Point Pleasant Beach, was killed on Thanksgiving 2012 at the age of 61 while trying to clear a 100-year-old tree that had toppled at his home in Brick.

The scholarship, which was created just a few months after his death, is awarded annually to deserving art students “in an attempt to keep his memory alive and inspire the very art students to whom he dedicated many years of his life,” according to the scholarship fund’s website.

To donate directly to the scholarship fund, visit the website by clicking here.