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Weekend Plans With Turnkey Sports' Len Perna: Birthday Dinner, Baseball Games

Turnkey Sports & Entertainment President & CEO LEN PERNA is spending most of this weekend at the ballpark rooting on his 16-year-old son who plays for an elite travel team. However, he always finds time to spend with his wife and daughter. Whether it is a nice night out on the town or relaxing at his Haddonfield, N.J., home, Perna attempts to put work out of his mind. “I try not to look at my phone on Saturdays and Sundays too much,” he said. “I stay off the grid unless I am on deadline. But by Sunday evening, I usually have a lot of emails. I will go through them for an hour and then I will not look again until Monday morning. It is hard to go to sleep if you have been working Sunday night.”

YOU SAY IT’S YOUR BIRTHDAY
: Fridays are generally unplanned. We have a thing here at work where in the summer the office closes at 3:00pm and we encourage people to beat the traffic and get a jump on the weekend. I will generally swim laps at the pool and then we almost always go out to dinner with a bottle of wine at a nice restaurant someplace close. It just so happens that this weekend is my wife’s birthday. She is turning 50. I will be taking her out to dinner on Saturday night with the family and some friends to a very nice place in Philadelphia.

TV DINNER
: Sunday is church in the morning, which is usually at 9:00 or 11:00am. I am Roman Catholic, and we go to a church called Christ the King. After that, we go to my son’s baseball game around noon. We will almost always eat dinner as a family together on Sunday evening. In the summer, we bring in sushi takeout and get ready for “GAME OF THRONES.” We will eat dinner around the TV and just talk. My favorite thing to eat is Brie cheese on crostini paired with a Malbec wine. That is pretty much every Sunday. I really look forward to it.

BREAKING AWAY
: I do a lot of cycling. South Jersey has some really great roads for riding. On a nice day I can cycle 30 or 40 miles pretty easily because it is pretty flat here. You can also bike across the Ben Franklin Bridge. It is really a thrill to be 5,000 feet in the air with a tiny bike lane into Philadelphia all the way up the Schuylkill River to Manayunk and beyond. We go to Stone Harbor in the summer. It is next to Wildwood and two towns north of Cape May. We do not go every weekend, but we will go on the holiday weekends and for the whole month of August.

SCENES FROM AN ITALIAN RESTAURANT
: There are a lot of great bars and restaurants around town. We love to go eat Italian and drink wine. We stay away from the chains and tend to go into the little places that seat 30-40 people with home-cooked Italian meals. Giumarello’s has live music and really great food. We also will go to Treno, Zeppoli and Bistro di Marino.

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