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Will Smith to honor high school football stars
By RON MOSHIER
Observer-Dispatch
Posted Mar 30, 2009

UTICA ? New Orleans Saints defensive end Will Smith and his Where There?s a Will There?s a Way foundation will host the inaugural ?Evening of All-Stars? on Saturday, May 2, at Daniele?s Banquet facility in New Hartford.

Smith, the NFL Pro Bowler from Utica and a former football star at Thomas R. Proctor High School, will return to pay special tribute to members of the 2008 Observer-Dispatch?s All-Mohawk Valley Football Team.

Where There?s a Will There?s a Way is a not-for-profit organization that was founded by Will Smith, a former O-D All-Mohawk Valley Player of the Year whose goal is to promote high school football talent in Central New York. Smith also hopes to incorporate a scholarship in the name of the foundation. Proceeds from this event will help support the only high school football camp and combine in the Mohawk Valley, to be held again this year on May 30 at Thomas R. Proctor High School?s D?Alessandro Stadium.

?The goal behind Will?s organization is to promote the high school football talent in this area,? said Paul Filletti, the banquet chairperson and one of Smith?s former high school coaches at Proctor. ?Will believes there are kids here with a lot of talent who don?t get the recognition other kids do, and this dinner is something he hopes to do for them every year.?

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