Palos Verdes, Peninsula programs aid Wilhite

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Dave Thorpe
on April 16, 2009 4:08 PM | | Comments (0) |

All proceeds from the snack bar at the Palos Verdes-Peninsula baseball game at Palos Verdes High on Wednesday went toward a benefit fund for Jon Wilhite, the former Mira Costa High baseball star and lone survivor of the April 10 car crash that took the lives of Los Angeles Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart, Mira Costa High graduate Henry Pearson and Courtney Stewart of Diamond Bar.
Wilhite, 24, underwent successful surgery on Wednesday at UC Irvine Medical Center in Orange. A trust fund was established at Wells Fargo Bank to aid the Wilhite family. Donations can be made to the Benefit Fund for Jon Wilhite, account # 3980643658. Proceeds from the snack bar at Peninsula High during Friday's Palos Verdes vs. Peninsula baseball game also will go toward the fund.
"It really hit home," Palos Verdes coach Evan Fujinaga said. "A lot of guys from the Hill played travel ball with him and our hearts go out to him and his family."

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Tony Ciniglio is an 11-year veteran at the Daily Breeze and is the Prep-JC Editor. Ciniglio graduated from Malibu High (home of the mighty Sharks) in 1997 as part of the school's second graduating class before attending powerhouse Pepperdine (Class of 2001), thus shattering any reader's preconceived notion that he has any personal bias when it comes to South Bay Preps.

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Dave Thorpe was a self-proclaimed, slightly above average baseball player back in the day at Torrance's West High, who went on and had an unspectacular, injury-riddled stint as a third baseman at El Camino College. Trading bat for pen, Thorpe wrote sports for the Long Beach Union newspaper at Long Beach State University, then worked as the sports editor for the Palos Verdes Peninsula News for seven years before climbing down the Hill to the Daily Breeze, where he has been a sports writer covering local sports for more than two years.

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