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Wilson County Department of Social Services Director Glenn Osborne, right, receives a $2,000 donation from Joya Zarka on behalf of the Healthcare Foundation of Wilson Auxiliary. The funds will be used to assist with senior health awareness services.
Healthcare Foundation supports senior services
Joyner's Funeral Home office specialist Beth Liles presents a $500 gift to Cliff Harwood of Pennies From Angels. Cliff and wife Helen Harwood started the nonprofit to help cancer patients with the cost of medication, gas, food, and utility bills. They also provide financial assistance for some procedures not covered by insurance.
Joyner's pitches in for Pennies From Angels
Joyner's Funeral Home President Dell Joyner presents Upward Sports representative Wayne Johnson with a $1,000 donation to support the children's athletic program. Upward fields extracurricular sports teams for school-aged children.
Joyner's supports Upward leagues
The Brand Performing Arts Center raised $23,845 for Southeastern Cancer Care at its Dancing for a Cause last month. From left are Dr. Samer S. Kasbari, BPAC owner Barrett Hildebrand, Dr. James N. Atkins, SCC board member Hannah El-Ramey Woodall and Dr. Jason K. Boyd. Southeastern Cancer Care assists cancer patients in eastern North Carolina with basic living essentials.
Dancing for a Cause raises nearly $24K for Southeastern Cancer Care
Rob Bissette, president of the All-American Kiwanis Club of Wilson, presents a $500 donation to Kathie Davis, executive director of the Wilson Family YMCA for the 2018 Senior-Senior prom hosted by the Crisis Center of Wilson, the Wilson Family YMCA and Fike High School.
Kiwanians support Senior-Senior prom
Ginger Williams, Episcopal Church Women past president, left, presents a $500 donation to Lt. Jake Law of the Salvation Army. St. Timothy's Episcopal Church of Wilson made the donation from proceeds of its annual bake sale.
Bake sale benefits Salvation Army
Southern Bank recently donated $1,000 to the Wilson Family YMCA. The proceeds will go to support the organization's annual fund. Pictured from left to right are Matt Whitley, Southern Bank senior vice president and market executive; Kathie Davis, YMCA executive director; and Gabriel Farris, community banker for Southern Bank.
Southern Bank gives YMCA a boost
Ginger Williams of St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church Women presents a $500 donation from annual bake sale proceeds to Lynne White, executive director of the Wesley Shelter. The Wesley Shelter is the domestic and sexual violence response agency for Wilson County and provides an array of services to help victims become survivors. Homeless women and children are also served.
Bake sale benefits Wesley Shelter
Episcopal Church Women past president Ann Barnes, center, presents a $500 donation to Neill Connor, director of the Community Soup Kitchen. St. Timothy's Episcopal Church of Wilson made the donation from proceeds of its annual bake sale held in November.
St. Timothy's supports soup kitchen
.Heather Driver of CopyPro is shown presenting a $600 donation to the afternoon Children's Hunger Elimination of Wilson distribution center volunteers. In December, CopyPro pledged a $100 donation to CHEW for each new copier purchased during the month. Receiving the donation from Driver are, from left, Jim Hawley, Billy Manning, Steve Witchey, Sgt. Stephen Gardner, Don Berrier, Jim Bradley and Judy and Colin Batten.
CopyPro pitches in for hungry children
Elizabeth Skinner, left, presents an $850 check to Matt Edwards with the SPOT, Wilson Youth United's youth center whose name stands for Sharing Positive Outcomes Together. The money is from proceeds of the St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church annual Episcopal Church Women’s bake sale. The money will be used for a new, safer back door.
Bake sale helps the SPOT
Elizabeth Skinner presents a $500 check to the Children's Hunger Elimination of Wilson. The money is from proceeds of St. Timothy Episcopal Church's annual Episcopal Church Women’s bake sale. The CHEW provides food to chronically hungry children in the community. St. Timothy’s packs 17 bags a week for children at Wells Elementary School.
St. Timothy's pitches in for CHEW
Billy Forbes, right, presents a $500 donation to Cathy Hardison, executive director of the Arts Council of Wilson from the Breakfast Optimist Club. The contribution will help the organization further its many youth programs.
Breakfast Optimists contribute to arts council [Photo gallery]
Wilson County Sheriff Calvin Woodard, right, present a check for $4,198.14 to Wilson County Schools Superintendent Lane Mills during the Wilson County Board of Education's Feb. 19 meeting. The proceeds were from the Wilson County Sheriff's Office annual auction of seized and unclaimed property.
Sheriff's auction benefits Wilson County Schools
Bill Shreve, past president of the Greater Wilson Rotary Club, presents a check for $1,000 to Ronnie Dew of Hunters for the Hungry. The donation was used to help pay for almost 4,000 pounds of deer meat that was processed and distributed to several feeding programs in Wilson to help the needy. The Greater Wilson Rotary Club also raises money every year by selling toilet paper and other paper products.
Hunters help the hungry
The Wilson Golden Circle Optimist Club donated $1,600 to the Free Will Baptist Children's Home in Middlesex on Feb. 10. The contribution will support youth summer programs and field trips for children's home residents. Pictured from left are Carrie Brown of the children's home and Sara Robbins, Dot Windham and Joy Belle Finch from the Golden Circle Optimist Club.
Optimists support Baptist children's home
Larry Blair and Linwood White IV of the Blair Walston Group at Merrill Lynch in Wilson present a check to Lynne White, executive director of Wesley Shelter for its In it to Win It fundraiser planned Feb. 22 at Pup’s Steakhouse. The Blair Walston Group is a $1,250 gold-level sponsor for the event that is celebrating the agency’s 35 years of service to the community. The Wesley Shelter is the domestic and sexual violence response agency for Wilson County.
Merrill Lynch supports Wesley Shelter
Salvation Army of Wilson Lt. Jake Law, left, and Salvation Army Boys and Girls Club Executive Director Montressee Ferrell, right, receive a $1,000 donation from state Martin Luther King Jr. Commissioner Jacquie Jeffers, center. A portion of proceeds from the Share the Dream Talent Show held Jan. 13 at Greenfield School was donated to the Boys and Girls Club to replace electronics stolen in a break-in late last year. Jeffers said the annual talent show has brought $10,000 into the Wilson community through contributions to organizations that support children.
Talent show proceeds benefit Boys and Girls Club
Lynne White, right, executive director at the Wesley Shelter, receives a check for $15,000 from Joya Zarka of the Healthcare Foundation of Wilson Auxiliary.The funds will be used to support counseling services for clients at the Wesley Shelter.
Healthcare Foundation of Wilson Auxiliary donates $15,000 to Wesley Shelter
A recent fishing tournament on the Tar River Reservoir held as a fundraiser for Pennies From Angels netted the nonprofit $1,015. Scotty and Kay Whitley finished in first place with a total catch of 17 pounds, 6 ounces, and the big fish weighed in at 8 pounds, 12 ounces. All proceeds go to assisting cancer patients in a time of need.
Tourney nets cash for cancer patients
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