Ben Serafin Fund

Grants Awarded in 2007 and 2008

CASA of Douglas County (Roseburg) — $2,500

to enhance delivery of services to Latino families

Glide Booster Club (Glide) — $2,100

for the purchase of a log splitter to be used by parents and students

Glide Booster Club (Glide) — $28,000

to replace the bleacher system at the Glide Athletic Complex by constructing a covered grandstand with aluminum bleachers

Glide Booster Club (Glide) — $5,200

to purchase a new wrestling mat for use by middle school and younger students

Glide Booster Club (Glide) — $1,500

to replace the existing piano in the band/choir room with a Yamaha Digital Piano

Glide Booster Club (Glide) — $3,000

to purchase a Marimba for band and choir instruction and performances

Glide Community Club (Glide) — $3,000

to support the holiday food basket program coordinated through Troop #112 of the Boy Scouts of America

Glide Community Club (Glide) — $15,000

for construction of a new stage for community events and installation of new double-pane vinyl windows for the center's main building

Glide Community Club (Glide) — $2,500

to support the holiday food basket program coordinated through Troop #112 of the Boy Scouts of America

Glide Elementary School (Glide) — $8,000

for the purchase of furniture for the front lobby, bookshelves for the parent resource center, and the sprinkler system for the kindergarten garden area

Glide Helping Hands, Seventh Day Adventist Church (Glide) — $4,000

to purchase food for the pantry for 2009

Glide Helping Hands, Seventh Day Adventist Church (Glide) — $4,000

to purchase food from UCAN Food Bank and support community needs through the Glide Helping Hands food pantry for the 2007-2008 year


Glide High School (Glide) — $2,500

for the Glide Agricultural Sciences and Technology Program and FFA to replace the existing fiberglass greenhouse covering with new efficient polycarbonate

Glide High School (Glide) — $ 800

to acquire an all-weather cover for the recently upgraded pole vault landing system

Glide Rural Fire Protection District (Glide) — $15,000

to build a new fire station, providing for training and meeting space as well as enhanced fire protection and emergency services for the area

Glide SMART Program (Glide) — $5,500

for general support of the program, to help it meet the goal of reaching 60 children per year at Glide Elementary School

Riddle High School (Riddle) — $5,000

to subsidize the travel of the high school band to New York to perform at Carnegie Hall

Roseburg Rotary Foundation (Roseburg) — $5,000

for the Build Our Kids Initiative, a communications campaign to build awareness about what children need to grow up healthy

Sunrise Enterprises of Roseburg, Inc. (Roseburg) — $5,000

to relocate and make upgrades to a new facility that will house the organization

Toketee Falls Elementary School (Idleyld Park) — $5,500

to purchase library books and media materials

Toketee Falls Elementary School (Idleyld Park) — $7,719

to support Toketee Falls Elementary School by funding the school's greatest needs, which include a photocopier, sound system and outdoor amenitities

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