Comcast-Spectacor Chairman Ed Snider and the Ed Snider Youth Hockey Foundation will be presented the John Wanamaker Award at the YMCA of Philadelphia & Vicinity annual gala at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts on Friday, October 9 at 7:30 p.m.

Snider created the Ed Snider Youth Hockey Foundation in 2005 as a personal commitment to provide opportunities to those who would otherwise not have such options. The Foundation has experienced rapid growth and uses hockey as its hook to gain and hold the attention of its young people, bringing inner-city children together and resulting in positive youth development. The mission of the Ed Snider Youth Hockey Foundation is to use the sport of hockey to help educate young people on how to succeed in the game of life.

Friday, October 09, 2009