The Montreal Impact, the English Montreal School Board (EMSB) and the Commission scolaire de Montréal (CDSM) have announced the creation of a new stay-in-school program called All the way with the Impact (Jusqu’au bout avec l’Impact), designed to promote the importance of persevering in school. 

The Hampton Roads Piranhas have announced an affiliation with the Virginia Power Soccer Association (VPSA).  VPSA is a non-profit organization with the mission to develop, support, encourage, and foster the participation of Virginia’s power wheelchair athletes in the competitive sport of power soccer.

The Montreal Impact will play a promotional game during the "Soccer Extravaganza" event, which will take place June 25, at Riverside Field, in Lasalle. All profits for the match will be donated to the Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation. Montreal Impact president, Joey Saputo, will be the honorary chairman of the event.

As part of their community involvement program, the Puerto Rico Islanders will join Auxiliaris, Inc. and “Banco de Alimentos de Puerto Rico”, the local chapter of America’s Second Harvest, in two separate charity initiatives.

One of Canada’s elite men’s soccer clubs has set its sights on a new goal -- building families for South Africa’s orphaned and abandoned children.  Announcing the partnership between the Toronto Lynx Soccer Club and SOS Children’s Villages Canada (SOS), Kelsey Lemon, Partnership Co-ordinator for SOS described the association as a natural progression of the international link that has already been forged between FIFA and SOS Children’s Villages International.

Montreal Impact captain Mauro Biello and Impact Chairman of the board Claude Chagnon will be the honorary chairmen of the 28th Montreal Games, which will take place two consecutives weekends, April 1 to 3 and April 8 to 10.

Montreal Impact head coach Nick DeSantis and team captain Mauro Biello officially launched Heart Week, Monday, at Royal Vale School in NDG.

The Nashville Metros and the U.S. Air Force Men’s Soccer Team will face off at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 15 at Ezell Park in a friendly match to raise money to help armed forces families in Tennessee who have lost loved ones in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Wednesday, October 6, 2004