Village Store Offers a Charitable Way to Home Entertainment

A local village retailer is offering shoppers a unique opportunity to give back when they treat themselves to home entertainment.

is running a special sales program, starting March 15 and running through tax day, April 15, that lets consumers give 5 percent of their purchase outlay to a local charity.

Shoppers can donate to the Babylon Beautification Society, Babylon Breast Cancer Coalition, Babylon Lions Club, Babylon Village Youth Project, West Islip Breast Cancer Coalition, or the West Islip Beautification Society.

Storeowner Patty Vorilas was on vacation in Aruba last summer when she stopped in a shop that was running a similiar sales program.

“Being a charitable person I thought it was such a great idea and that I wanted to do something like this,” said Vorilas, who is the new Babylon Village Chamber of Commerce president. “It’s the first time I’m doing this kind of promotion,” she added.

The store offers everything darts to pool tables and any other type of game. There is a large selection of cue sticks, dart boards, darts and accessories, Ping Pong, Air Hockey, Foosball, poker tables, table tops, chips and cards, backgammon, chess, MahJongg, dominoes, old time favorites like Cribbage, Nok-Hockey, Pokeno, Michigan Rummy, Rummikub and a whole lot more.

And if you can't find what you want in the store Vorilas will special order it.

The sales program, she said, will hopefully help all of the local charities given that consumer interest in home entertainment is increasing as shoppers are looking to have fun on a smaller entertainment budget.

The current hot games list, said Vorilas, includes poker, darts and MahJongg.

”More people are entertaining at home and I am sure due to the economy,” she said. “It’s an inexpensive night out or in actually and believe it or not it’s fun. I have my regulars coming in to buy a new game for their get-togethers. It varies from men of all ages for poker and darts, couples and singles of all ages for the huge variety of games we have in stock,” she said.