Hockey Benefit Event Honors Beloved Toms River Player's Foundation

TOMS RIVER, NJ ? Winding River Skating Center will be filled with music and barbecue and hockey games all day Saturday as part of a benefit honoring a beloved Toms River East hockey player.

"A Game for Aidan" kicks off at 11:30 a.m. when the doors open at the center, 1211 Whitesville Road in Toms River, for the benefit to honor Aidan Inteso, a 2020 graduate of Toms River East.

Inteso had just started his freshman year at Ursinus University when he died of an undiagnosed heart ailment in the fall of 2020.

The benefit raises funds for the Aidan Inteso Memorial Foundation, which in 2022 provided scholarships to two Toms River East seniors. It also works to provide opportunities to empower children, teens, and young adults to ?be better,? which was Aidan's motto.

"On the ice, there was nobody tougher," a post on the Toms River South-East hockey team's Facebook page said in remembering Aidan. "Off the ice, Aidan was a kind and caring person, earning him the admiration of all who knew him."

There will be a barbecue and beverages, a gift auction with hundreds of items, hockey games all day and music by DJ Matt Saggs. There also will be a ceremony at 2 p.m.

Entrance to the benefit is free.