Representatives from community groups gathered at Tillamook High School on June 4, where junior Charity Drive overalls Abi Blackburn and Kennedy Moncrief awarded them $61,829.72 in community grants.
The awards accounted for 30% of the record $223,446.39 that Tillamook High School students raised in the annual fundraising initiative in February, with 50% of the funds going to Doernbecher Children’s Hospital and 20% to a scholarship program for graduating seniors.
A committee including senior Charity Drive overalls Shayla Hillstrom and Peyton Rawe selected local organizations to receive the grant funding.
The recipients were: Seventh Day Adventist, Church of the Nazarene, Living Water Fellowship, First Christian Church, Tillamook School District’s Backpack Program, the Tillamook Beekeepers Association, Healthy Families of Tillamook County, Tillamook Family & Youth Services Team, Tides of Change, ARC of Tillamook County, Marie Mills Center, Inc., Tillamook Serenity Club, Compassion Tillamook, Tillamook Early Learning Center, Tillamook Swiss Society, Tillamook YMCA, Tillamook County Outdoor School, The Grinch Gang, Independent Order of Odd Fellows Lodge #94, Art Accelerated, Bay City Arts Center, Tillamook High School SAFE, Adventist Health, Oregon Coast Children’s Theater & Youth Art Center, THS Interact Club, Tillamook Farmers Market, TCFA, Rockaway Writers Rendezvous, Tillamook K9 Rescue, Wave Steppers Club and Habitat for Humanity.
The largest awards went to Church of the Nazarene and the First Christian Church, which each received $6,000 towards renovations, with the former renovating its children and youth room and the latter its dining room.
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