Community News
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2009 LCCF Scholarship Recipients
- BANI – Ethan Young
- Bruce Brown Memorial Scholarship—Randon McMaster
- Alice Carney-LeRoque Scholarship—Jessica Oster
- Cole Foundation Scholarship—Claudia Aguilar, Stephan Good, Lori Richardson, Catherine Wingstrom
- Ellsworth Fanning Memorial Scholarship—Luke Kaiser, Trevor Perkins, Tyler Young
- Farmers State Bank Scholarship—Mark Deroshia, Jessica Oster
- Farmwald Scholarship—Catherine Wingstrom
- Florence and Virgil Hardin Scholarship—Amy Young
- H.O.P.E. Nursing Scholarship—Catherine Wingstrom
- Judy Gage Keenan Memorial Scholarship—Kailie Cross
- Paul and Marion Krebs Scholarship—Kailie Cross
- LCCF Scholarship—Joseph Raber
- Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship—Erica Gilliland, Rachel Grossman
- L.I.F.E. Scholarship—Randon McMaster, Ethan Prough, Kylie Yoder
- Marks Fine Art Scholarship—Ashley Roth
- Mory Company Scholarship—Ethan Young
- Mory Family Scholarship—Ethan Young
- Craig D. /Ronda S. Neff Scholarship—Kylie Yoder
- Holly Petersen Memorial Science Scholarship—Claudia Aguilar
- Duane and Heide Rheinheimer Scholarship—Lori Richardson, Ashley Roth
- Schlemmer Scholarship—Ethan Young
- Schmidt Basketball Scholarship—Nicholas Pechin
- Ned Stump Memorial Scholarship—Christina Bontrager
- Matthew Terry Memorial Scholarship—Benjamin Kelly
- Joseph J. Willard Scholarship—Ethan Young
- George O. Witwer News-Sun Journalism Scholarship—Benjamin Kelly
Caring Community Grantmaking Fund
The following competitive grants were awarded in 2008:
4-County Vocational—Auto Body/Collision program
LaGrange Communities Youth Center—Teach Youth to Bowl program
LaGrange County Junior Achievement—Success Skills mentoring program at Lakeland High School
LaGrange County Council on Aging—Transportation program
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Cooking at Pioneer Days LaGrange County Parks Department activity |
LaGrange County Parks and Recreation Department—Summer programming for youth
Lakeland High School Functional Skills Department—Disability awareness special needs Relay for Life
Lima-Scott Emergency Food Pantry—Operating support
Menno-Hof—Quilt Garden as part of regional tour of gardens and murals
Noble House Ministries, Inc.—Emergency shelter and services for victims of domestic violence and recovery houses for people with addictions
SCAN, Inc.—"Prevention through Education" workshops (public education about child abuse)
The Shed—Improvements to facility where youth activities are held
United Fund of LaGrange County—Renewal of the 211 referral program
Women in Transition—Privacy fence at the rehabilitation center to allow outdoor Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and other activities with privacy for those attending
2008 Board generated proactive grants include:
Fort Wayne Philharmonic—Holiday Pops Concert and Education Series
Habitat for Humanity—Grantsmanship Training
LaGrange County Clothes and Food Basket—Support for provision of emergency food and clothing for county residents
LaGrange County Council on Aging—Food Pantry & Pac-a-Sac
LaGrange County Parks and Recreatio—Pine Knob expansion project
LaGrange County Public Library—Topeka Branch Library building project
My and My House Counseling Center—Transparenting training for counselors to provide assistance for children of divorcing parents
- Pheasants Forever—Youth hunt at Pigeon River
- Purdue Cooperative Extension—Free Junior Golf program
- Tobacco Free LaGrange County—Anti-tobacco campaign in schools
- Topeka Elementary—David Rogers Park Pioneer Days
- Millenium Task Force—Video
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