October 31, 2009
Alex Burman and his brother Ben are making quite a name for themselves as philanthropists. That is quite a feat considering that they are 11 and 13 years old respectively. With their favorite baseball team, The Philadelphia Phillies, defending their World Series title against the New York Yankees, the boys were poised to see the game from some of the best seats that Citizens Bank Park has to offer. But instead of sitting in the Diamond Club section, the boys sold their 5 tickets on Stub Hub for $11,000 and will donate the funds to Drexel Neumann Academy in Chester, PA. Stephen Burman, uncle to the boys, sits on the board of the Academy which the only Catholic school left in that impoverished city. Philadelphia has long held the moniker, “The City of Brotherly Love”.
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April 12, 2009
On Monday, April 6, 2009, as the Boston Red Sox prepared for their home opener at Fenway Park, they noticed something was missing – Heinz Ketchup. The delivery they expected that morning, 996 bottles, valued at $43,000 had not arrived. When the distributor was notified, the police were brought in and they discovered the truck stashed at a truck stop in Baxter, TN. The driver, Christopher G. Kindle, stated he was disgruntled with the management of the trucking company. In the end, Mother Nature took care of the situation by causing the home opener to be rained out and allowing enough time for the delivery to “catch up”.
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