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WALLACE — Members of the Carolina Strawberry Festival board, representatives of several non-profit groups in the area, and officials from the town of Wallace attended an awards ceremony and dinner at the Rose Hill Restaurant on Sept. 10.
Carolina Strawberry Festival Chairman Charley Farrior awarded several grants paid for by funds raised during the festival from vendors and other festival income. The grants included:
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$2,000 to Pet Friends of Duplin County to support their services, including a pet food pantry, rescue help to pets facing euthanasia at the Duplin County Animal Shelter and regular rabies clinics, as well as spay/neuter assistance.
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$1,500 to Duplin Christian Outreach Ministries to assist funding in their Feed Our Hungry Children program. The program distributed over 8,800 backpacks filled with food, snacks and beverages to children suffering from food insecurity in Duplin County. The ministry works with five county schools to locate children in need.
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$2,500 to the Wallace Depot Commission for its railroad postal car renovation project.
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$2,500 to the Gardens of SENC in Willard to add a special handicap-accessible mulch to 3,200 feet of pathways through the gardens.
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$2,000 to the Wallace Rose Hill High School Booster Club to purchase helmets for the school’s football program.
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$2,500 to the Town of Wallace for the painting of a community mural downtown on the former Jim Russ Chevrolet building.
