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Pictured top: Ashley Strahm, Holtville High School Green Machine Marching Band (Bridges Fund for Arts in Education) and ECCF Chair Dick Morris; Bottom: Lori McKenzie and Monica Tindol, Wetumpka High School Library (Lull) and Dick Morris.

This year’s grant recipients are:

• Heritage Training & Career Center, Inc.:  $1500 to provide literacy training, job readiness, job search/placement, and job coaches/family mentoring services to low income clients in Elmore County.
• Elmore County Food Pantry:  $2500 to purchase a 6x12 enclosed trailer to transport food from the Montgomery Area Food Bank monthly and aid in the distribution of food to some 400+ families.
• Alabama Kidney Foundation, Montgomery Regional Office:  $1000 to offer financial assistance for medication purchases, handicap equipment, treatment-related transportation costs, and other related expenses.
• Child Protect:  $1200 to provide forensic interviews, counseling, and family advocacy for two Elmore County children and their non-offending caregivers.
• Family Sunshine Center:  $2500 to provide shelter and related services to Elmore County families victimized by domestic violence.
• Sight Savers America:  $2000 to fund comprehensive follow-up on eye care needs for 35 Elmore County children.
• Communities Improvement Association:  $2000 to expand Kids Journey, a summer program offering activities to Millbrook youth , including reading/math tutorials and Health Rocks (to address childhood obesity).
• District Attorney's Office for the 19th Judicial Circuit//Helping Families Initiative:  $2500 to underwrite a portion of this program offering interventions to Elmore, Tallassee, and Autauga families and their students at risk of becoming involved in the juvenile justice system.
• Elmore County Board of Education -- HIPPY:  $2000 to employ an additional part-time educator to offer this home-based, early intervention program to help parents in the Holtville area provide early learning experiences for their preschoolers.
• Girl Scouts of Southern Alabama, Inc.:  $500 to improve girls' self-image,physical activity, and confidence through GSA’s  healthy living programs  for K-12 troops in Elmore County.

Pictured top: Ashley Bowdoin, Elmore County Food Pantry and Carol W. Butler, President CACF. Bottom: Janice Whorton, City of Wetumpka (Clara Lull Robison) and Dick Morris.

In addition, the following grants were made from Restricted Funds of the Elmore County Community Foundation:

• Holtville High School’s Green Machine Marching Band:  $1,000 from the Margaret & Austin Bridges Fund for Arts in Education to purchase new percussion equipment
• Elmore County Historical Society & Museum:  $1,250 from the Margaret & Austin Bridges Fund for Historical Preservation to install signage outside the building
• Wetumpka High School Library:  $1,985 from the Lucy Brooks Lull Library Fund to expand the library’s book holdings
• Wetumpka Elementary Library:  $373 from the Charles Horatio McMorris Library Fund to expand this elementary school library’s book holdings
• Wetumpka Middle School Library:  $373 from the Charles Horatio McMorris Library Fund to expand this middle school library’s book holdings
• City of Wetumpka:  $2,350 from the Clara Lull Robison Beautification Fund to install wrought iron posts with hanging baskets throughout downtown Wetumpka
• Alabama Reading Association :  $2,500 from the Elmore County Public Education Fund to underwrite part of a statewide reading conference this fall.