El Segundo Youth Football and Cheer jogs for Simmons, Burris charities
Members of the El Segundo Youth Football and Cheer organization have raised $6,000 to present to the foundations of two South Bay youth sports icons.
Boys and girls raised the money during a jog-a-thon last month at El
Segundo High School.
They will present $3,000 checks to charities supported by the families of Randall Simmons and Craig Burris. The families of both men will take part in a pep rally Friday at 6 p.m. at Recreation Park.
A bonfire will follow at 7:30 p.m.
Burris was a Lawndale school trustee who died in April. He was commissioner of the Pacific Coast Youth Football Conference, which he founded in 1987, at the time of his death.
Simmons, a Rancho Palos Verdes resident, was a Los Angeles police officer killed in a gunbattle in the San Fernando Valley in February.
He was active with his children in the El Segundo program.
Boys and girls raised the money during a jog-a-thon last month at El Segundo High School.They will present $3,000 checks to charities supported by the families of Randall Simmons and Craig Burris. The families of both men will take part in a pep rally Friday at 6 p.m. at Recreation Park.
A bonfire will follow at 7:30 p.m.
Burris was a Lawndale school trustee who died in April. He was commissioner of the Pacific Coast Youth Football Conference, which he founded in 1987, at the time of his death.
Simmons, a Rancho Palos Verdes resident, was a Los Angeles police officer killed in a gunbattle in the San Fernando Valley in February.
He was active with his children in the El Segundo program.
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