Charity softball tournament benefits Juniata County community [Video]

JUNIATA COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) — An annual benefit softball tournament swung into action Saturday morning.

The 10th Annual event was held at Walker Township Park in Juniata County, hosted by the Harpers Warriors Foundation.

Everything at the event was donated — from tents to a popcorn machine and, of course, the basket raffle items.

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Proceeds this year are going to the family of a young boy who had a heart transplant and another family who had to lay their one-year-old girl to rest.

The organization’s founders say the community first started this tournament for them.

“We lost our daughter on July 4th, 2015, Harper Lynn Miller, she had Heterodoxy syndrome,” Gary Lee Miller, tournament director for the foundation, said. “We went to appointment at 28 weeks and there was no heartbeat. She was we had to deliver stillborn and it was devastating.”

“Funerals aren’t cheap. Cremation isn’t even …