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Giving Back
Golf tournament to provide more than 6,300 meals
More than 120 sponsors helped raise more than $25,000 at the 2006 East Cooper Meals on Wheels Outback Charity Golf Classic. The funds from the event will provide at least 6,300 hot meals during 2007. Pictured: East Cooper Meals on Wheels volunteers Steve Omark (front left) and Dave McGrath discuss the advantages of buying mulligans while Shelley Dobkin (back, from left), Bill Humphrey, and Ed Burns help Bishop David Thompson register for an afternoon of golf.
MPBPA spreads wealth to five local charities
The Mount Pleasant Business and Professional Association honored five area charities with financial donations in what has become an annual tradition with the East Cooper networking organization. The five charities were each presented checks for $500. Pictured, from left: Colin Smoak, Children’s Chance; Lynn Young, Lowcountry Orphan Relief; Margaret Cotton, president, MPBPA; Louis Yuhasz, Louie’s Kids; Ann Bartko, Dee Norton Lowcountry Children’s Center; Debbie McKelvey, Windwood Farm Home for Children; and Tom Williams, Windwood Farm Home for Children.
Target sponsors local reading program
Girl Scouts of Carolina Low Country has partnered with Target Inc. to sponsor the Daisy READ program. Daisy READ, or Reading Encourages Achievers and Dreamers, is a pre-literacy program delivered to girls currently enrolled in targeted Head Start programs and in community centers throughout Girl Scouts of Carolina Low Country’s nine-county service area.
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