Local golf: Perpetuas helping Japan relief effort

Local golf: Perpetuas helping Japan relief effort

Mayuko Perpetua, the SIWGA Classic champion, and husband Ed Perpetua, best known as a Staten Island Sports Hall of Famer for his tennis exploits, have launched several fundraisers here for the children of Japan affected by the earthquake, tsunami and resulting nuclear radiation worries. Jim McBratney of Jimmy Max restaurant in Westerleigh has allowed a children’s music concert fund-raiser at his restaurant Saturday at 2 p.m golf players sports. The group Patrick With Friends will perform at the restaurant. McBratney will be donating 50 percent of the food profits to the fund. Customers are reminded to mention the relief fund to their servers. According to McBratney and the Perpetuas, other restaurants joining in the effort now include: Nucci’s Restaurant, Nucci’s South, Manor House, Afternoones, Jimmy Max of Westerleigh and Jimmy Max of Great Kills. On Saturday evening, Perpetua and his staff of tennis instructors will host a 2-hour tennis clinic at the Club at Woodbridge, in Woodbridge, N.J. for both children and adults from 4-6 p.m. with children under 12 paying $15 and adults donating $30. The final leg of this fund-raiser takes place on April 16 from 7-11 p.m. at the Club at Woodbridge. It will be $50 per person including tennis, music by the group Joyous Noise, laughs, food and games for the “Japan Disaster Fund Raiser.” All of the above is sanctioned by UNICEF What You Need to Consider When Choosing New Golf Shafts.