The Village Beacon Record - June 11, 2015

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BEACON RECORD The Village

Mount Sinai • Miller Place • Sound Beach • rocky Point • ShorehaM • Wading river • leiSure country June 11, 2015

volume 30, no. 46

$1.00

Green Fest 2015

also: Q & a with Ringmaster Fred Hall, B10; Culper spy Day, B19; gallery North gala, B26; LI Maker Festival, B35

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Photo by Lisa Nonnenmann

‘Stangs get second crown

the Mount Sinai girls’ lacrosse team nabbed the program’s second state championship title on Saturday in cortland. See the story on page A29.

On your mark … Hundreds run in 19th annual Joe Keany 5K

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LIers’ backyard game explodes in popularity Rampshot taking over as a new summer favorite By alex PetroSki

Lots of people have ideas. Some say they do their best thinking in the shower. Josh Bonventre’s big idea came while driving home from his day job as a physical education teacher in the Shoreham-Wading River school district. A few years ago, Bonventre was a typical Long Island husband and dad of three. Now he is the co-founder of RampShot, an outdoor game designed for four players, which involves four racquetball-like spheres

and two ramps with built-in nets. Two players make up a team and score points by either tossing the ball into the net or catching the ball after it bounces off the top of the ramp. The idea may sound simple, but taking it from a fleeting daydream in traffic to an awardwinning, booming business venture is anything but. Bonventre, along with help from his friend and co-founder Kevin Texeira, set up shop in Bonventre’s detached garage at his Center Moriches home about two years ago.

Josh Bonventre shows off a rampShot prototype.

Today, the garage is bursting at the seams with office furniture and packaged RampShots waiting to be shipped. Texeira has since moved from Mount Sinai to the Finger

Photo by alex Petroski

Lakes area in upstate New York. He is a national sales manager for a cookie company in addition to his responsibilities with RampShot. RaMPsHOT continued on page a14


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