Back-to-School Bash to Benefit Make-A-Wish® & The Children's Heart Foundation

ROCHESTER, Pa.—Premier Fitness & Boxing Club of Rochester is throwing its second-annual Back-to-School Bash benefiting area nonprofits. This community event features a volleyball tournament, children's games, food, and a Chinese auction—and you’re invited!

Organizers of the event, which will be held from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 19 at Robert's Roadside Inn in Bridgewater, are seeking teams to play in the sixes and sand volleyball tournament.

The fee to enter the tournament—which starts at 9 a.m.— is $200, and each six-player team must be composed of at least two women. Each team member will receive a T-shirt, meal ticket, and chance to win team prizes.

All participants will also be registered to win two tickets to the Aug. 22 Bruno Mars concert at PPG Paints Arena.

But you don't have to be a volleyball player to attend: General admission tickets will be $20, and include a meal ticket, and access to children's activities and live music. Those activities kick off at 11 a.m.

The live music lineup includes:

• Alter the Design
• Burned
• HDK
• Northern Comfort
• DJ Frankie B

Proceeds from the event, held jointly by the boxing club, Make-A-Wish Greater Pennsylvania and West Virginia, and The Children's Heart Foundation will go toward fulfilling the wish of a Beaver County child with a life-threatening medical condition, as well as funding research into congenital heart failure.

Premier Fitness and Boxing owner Jaryd Boyer knows just how important these organizations can be to children with life-threatening illnesses and their families—his son was born with a serious heart defect, and was the recipient of a Make-a-Wish trip.

"They do so much—we just wanted to do something to give back to them," Boyer said.

For more details on the event, to sign up to play in the tournament, buy tickets, or inquire about how to be a sponsor, visit http://b2sbtickets.ezregister.com/.

Make-A-Wish® Greater Pennsylvania and West Virginia grants the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength and joy. The organization has served more than 17,500 children in 57 Pennsylvania counties and the state of West Virginia in its 34-year history.

Established by Betsy Peterson in 1996, The Children’s Heart Foundation (CHF) is the country’s leading organization solely committed to fund congenital heart research. Since 1996, CHF has funded 62 research projects with more than $7.4 million. CHF is a national 501(c)(3) tax‐exempt charitable organization that does not receive any government funding. The goal of the foundation is to bring health, hope and happiness to children and families impacted by congenital heart defects, the most common birth defect in the United States. This objective is accomplished by funding the most promising research to advance the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of congenital heart defects. For more information, please visit: www.childrensheartfoundation.org.