Dear Members, Brothers, and Fellow Soccer Fans,

Happy Founders’ Day!

Wow. A little over a year ago, a handful of us got together and decided to take advantage of the momentum that the Rowan possibility had brought to our market. We already had a lobbying group in place, but we wanted something that would be more inclusive and had permanence about it. So we adopted a name that our small group liked, bought the website, got to work on designing a logo, and hoped we’d reach 100 members.
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The Sons of Ben came together to donate a total of 561 pounds of food and $1,500 in cash to the Bernadine Center in Chester, PA. The Honorable Wendell N. Butler Jr., Mayor of Chester, was on hand for the presentation. The Bernadine Center is experiencing a shortage of food this holiday season and we are proud to help them try and attain their goals. We hope this is the first step in a long-term relationship in our efforts to do more for Chester then simply coming down on game day.
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If you want to donate, or help collect donations of canned goods, fill out the information form to the right and we’ll get back to you ASAP. You can also give us money via PayPal, 100% of which will go straight to the charities involved.
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Philadelphia has been left without a Major League Soccer franchise for the first eleven, soon to be twelve, seasons of the league’s existence. A combination of factors seems to have worked against the effort to complete the Atlantic Seaboard foursome. The metro areas of Boston, New York City and Washington DC all had investors in place in 1995 in conjunction with natural grass stadia, while Philadelphia could have had interest, the artificial surfaces at the Vet and Franklin Field weren’t conducive to the game, and both were already shared by multiple teams.
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