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Jupiter Senior Softball

Gerry Elias, cofounder The late Ted Battistone, who died in April 2020, was the
and first commissioner of inaugural inductee followed by Mike Richmond, the 2021
the Jupiter Senior Softball inductee.
Association (JSSA), was The year-round slow-pitch softball program is open
posthumously enshrined in to persons 55 and older and is sponsored by the Jupiter
the organization’s Hall of Senior Softball Association in cooperation with the Town
Fame in a Jan. 11 ceremony. of Jupiter. For information contact Gary Newman at (917)
Elias, 82, died last 623-0791. Registration can be made online at www.
February. He was chosen leaguelineup.com/jssa.
as the 2022 Hall of Fame
honoree by unanimous vote
of the JSSA board last April. Drainage Information
“Gerry was well liked and
he made a huge difference From Northern Palm Beach
and is most deserving of this
honor,” Commissioner Paul County Improvement
Storch said in opening the
induction ceremony. Richard Sewell addresses family and friends of Hall of Fame inductee Gerry Elias District
Gerry’s wife, Mariette, Why do some yards flood after large
sister Phyllis Rodrigues, niece Stephanie Riley and twin and how crucial his
grandsons, Max and Jake Boland, attended the ceremony leadership was to its quantities of rain? The simple answer
held at Jupiter Community Park. The event drew a large success. Elias was is according to most approved drainage
crowd of senior softball players, several of whom shared league commissioner designs, some water is meant to be
fond memories of Gerry and the many acts of kindness from 1999 to 2002 temporarily stored in public recreational
he performed for others. when the softball areas, yard swale and streets. The excess
Association Vice Commissioner Richard Sewell spoke program transitioned surface water slowly drains to community
of Gerry’s commitment to the senior softball program “from 12 to 13 guys
playing league travel lakes or on-site ponds via street and yard
ball (in various drainage grates and/or via swales, ditches
communities) to and canals. The more complex answer is
230 who play three that each yard is different. Some yards
mornings a week,” Mariette Elias with ball she tossed have drainage swale areas. These are
Sewell said. He to open the senior softball Winter areas that are sloped to catch water and
presented Mariette League
and the fam il y filter out pollutants as water is absorbed
framed copies of the Hall of Fame plaque and of a into the ground. Some yards direct water
narrative about Elias’ life and impact on Jupiter senior to the community drainage system as
softball. run-off with very little water retained in
The Hall of Fame ceremony coincided with the launch the yard. Familiarize yourself with how
of the association’s 2023 Winter League and Mariette your yard was built to determine how
was given the honor of throwing out the ceremonial “first
Gerry Elias, the 2022 Inductee into the Jupiter Senior Softball pitch.” Gerry Elias is the third person to be enshrined in water drains from your home.
Hall of Fame the JSSA Hall of Fame since its establishment in 2020.

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