2009 Grants and Scholarships
Grants
Bluefield College - $820 for the first Annual Speech Contest (Alfred and Shirley Wampler Caudill Fund)
Bible in the Schools – $185 Donor-Designated for the Mercer County Program (B.G. and Rachel Blalock Family Fund)
Mercer/Tazewell County Reading Bee - $1,000 for support of the program (Bluefield Daily Telegraph Literacy Fund and Unrestricted Fund)
Education Alliance - $1,000 21st Century Teaching Mini-Grants Program (Unrestricted Fund)
Mountain Kids, Inc. - $1,000 Kids Club Art Project (The Ruth Creasy and A. Elmo Fleshman Fund and the Janie Poteet Light Fund for Art Studies)
Read Aloud of Mercer County - $1,000 Author’s Month and Favorite Book Art Contest 2009 (Rotary Club of Bluefield, WV Fund and Unrestricted Fund)
Second Chance Learning Center - $1,351 to help rebuild the library (Unrestricted Fund)
United Way of the Virginias, Inc. - $1,000 for the First Book Mercer County Program (Unrestricted Fund)
Bluefield Lions Club - $500r the WV Lions Sight Van Program (American Electric Power Community Service Fund)
Mercer Health Right, Inc. - $180 Donor-designated for the program (Charles E. and Jerry Ann Myles Fund)
Child Protect of Mercer County - $2,000 for the Body Safety Program (Fund for Mercer County and the Jeffrey Edward Shott Memorial Fund)
Children’s Home Society of WV/Mercer County WE CAN - $1,000 to support quarterly activities (Fund for Mercer County and Unrestricted Fund)
City of Princeton Police Department - $1,200 for the purchase of digital cameras and memory cards (Unrestricted Fund)
Mercer County Civil Air Patrol - $500 for signage for the new facility (Anonymous Fund and Unrestricted Fund)
Mercer County Fellowship Home - $1,432 for carpeting for five bedrooms (Warren Ashby and Elizabeth Featherstone Thornhill Memorial Fund and Unrestricted Fund)
Mercer County Spay Association - $500 for low cost spay and neutering services (Unrestricted Fund)
Mother of Christ Julinoel (Tazewell) - $1,000 for the replacement of beds and mattresses (Unrestricted Fund)
Pet Haven Rescue Center - $500 to support the program (Unrestricted Fund)
Pisgah Community Playground Assoc. - $1,000 for playground equipment and improvements (Unrestricted Fund)
SAFE (Stop Abusive Family Environments, Inc.) - $1,000 to design, print and distribute SAFE brochures (Unrestricted Fund)
Salvation Army in Bluefield - $1,735 for playground improvements (Charles A. and Marjorie M. Peters Fund and Unrestricted Fund)
Second Chance for Cats - $500 to support the program (Unrestricted Fund)
Sunrise Center (Tazewell) - $600 for GED books and supplies (Unrestricted Fund)
The Wade Center - $1,000 for new child care facility (Sylvester C. and Janice Myers Fund)
Alliance for the Arts, Ltd. - $1,500 for the Godspell Production (Fannie Kate and Betty Gardner Bailey Fund and Unrestricted Fund)
City of Princeton Railroad Museum - $1,000 for archival materials and supplies (Unrestricted Fund)
Gary Bowlings House of Art - $1,500 for the Children’s Art Extravaganza (The Janie Poteet Light Fund for Art Studies and the Judge Jerome and Hilda R. Katz Memorial Fund)
Historic Crab Orchard Museum & Pioneer Park - $1,000 for the upgrade and beautification of the parking lot (The Ammar Family Memorial Fund)
Pocahontas Exhibition Mine & Museum - $1,500 to help with the roof replacement (Unrestricted Fund)
Princeton Senior High School Band Boosters - $1,500 for the first annual marching band competition (Unrestricted Fund)
Scholarships
Alex Mahood Fund - $500.00
Alfred and Shirley Wampler Caudill Scholarship Fund - $400.00
C.B. and Ora Hunter Hancock Memorial Scholarship - $150.00
Doctor Jack Walter Witten Scholarship Fund - $1,00.00
E. R. Gillespie Scholarship Fund - $500.00
Grace Hanna and Maurice Weinberg Scholarship Fund - $150.00
Graham High School Scholarship Fund - $300.00
Harman Masonic Lodge #222 - $500.00
Joshua Lee Shutt Memorial Scholarship Fund - $2,000.00
Kendrick Family Scholarship Fund - $10,000.00
Lindsay Rebekah Haun Memorial Scholarship Fund - $2,000.00
Max and Virginia Kammer Family Scholarship - $1,500.00
Ralph H. and Shirley D. Kiser Family Scholarship Fund
Rose Sinicrope Scholarship Fund - $5,000.00
Roy R. Raub M.D. Memorial Scholarship Fund - $15,800.00
William G. Skewes Memorial Scholarship Fund - $250.00