The Joe Beler Sr. Scholarship Dinner and Comedy Show will take place on March 9 (Saturday) at 7 p.m. at Vazzano's Four Seasons (337 Kenyon St.) in Stratford.

John Romanoff, one of the top comics in New England, will perform. 

Tickets are $50 and available at the door. A full buffet dinner is included.

Beler died in 2010. Beler coached the Foran football team for five years in the late 1980s. He started the Law wrestling program in 1973 and also coached volleyball at Foran. He was also an assistant football coach at Law, Milford Academy and at Notre Dame-Fairfield under his son, Joe Beler III. Beler was an assistant under current Foran coach Jeff Bevino for nine seasons at Milford Academy.