Champions of the Youngsters’s Security Heart of Washington County gathered for breakfast or a luncheon Feb. 21 on the Fayetteville Public Library for the seventh annual Handprints for Hope occasion. Visitors on the two occasions helped elevate greater than $47,000 to assist assist the middle’s applications.
The middle is a child-friendly setting offering “baby advocacy, forensic interviewing, forensic medical exams, psychological well being remedy, and baby abuse prevention and schooling coaching. The CSC additionally brings collectively groups of execs, which embody the important assets of legislation enforcement, baby protecting companies, sufferer service suppliers, prosecutors, medical personnel, and neighborhood volunteers utilizing a multidisciplinary staff method. All our applications are free to baby victims and non-offending members of the family,” organizers say.
The partitions of the middle in Springdale are coated with handprints put there by every baby who involves the middle — together with footprints made by infants. “Our handprints are central to the mission of the CSC to empower youngsters to beat abuse and start to belief, hope and heal,” Elizabeth Shackelford, govt director, instructed these on the luncheon. Handprints and footprints on the partitions of the present location can be transferred to a canvas of the kid’s selecting when the nonprofit group strikes to a brand new location within the coming months.
“We like to think about our neighborhood, a number of disciplinary companions and all our donors because the hearts behind the handprints. All of you make it attainable to serve the youngsters of Washington County.
“That’s how we developed the Serving to Hand Awards to acknowledge excellent neighborhood members, companions and volunteers.”
The 2023 Serving to Hand Award honorees have been:
Riffraff & Metropolis Provide — Excellent Enterprise;
Fayetteville Junior Civic League — Excellent Group;
Sgt. Bobby Hammontree, Springdale Police Division — Excellent MDT accomplice; and
Kirby Jett — Chris Thornton Sidekick Award.
Bentonville Backyard Membership
That night, Bentonville Backyard Membership welcomed revelers for his or her Mardi Gras celebration at Pinnacle Nation Membership in Rogers.
Proceeds from the night will go towards the College of Arkansas horticulture scholarships the membership awards yearly.
The group additionally helps the Arkansas State Flower Present, Habitat for Humanity, Heifer Undertaking, Nature Conservatory, Arbor Day Program, Nationwide Backyard Membership Week and backyard ebook donations to the Bentonville Public Library.
These making merry for Mardi Gras included Cynthia Coughlin, Sharon Abide, Deborah and Jim Reynolds, Linda Stiles, Judy Phillips, Debbie Evans, Laurice Hachem-Roberts and Keith Roberts, Ellis Ellis, Carol and Ed Clifford, Melody Martens, Lisa Lockwood, Jessica Grey, Kathy Muldoon, Tami and Darin Grey, Katie and Rodney Redman, Teri and Gary Head, Scarlett and Neff Basore, Ashley and Chad Goss, Annie and Joe Blake, Celia Swanson, Robbie and Troy Musson and Pamm and Paul Prebil.
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Columnist Carin Schoppmeyer might be reached by e mail at [email protected]
Cynthia Coughlin (from left), Linda Stiles, Sharon Abide, Deborah Reynolds and Judy Phillips welcome visitors to the Bentonville Backyard Membership Mardi Gras celebration Feb. 21 at Pinnacle Nation Membership in Rogers. (NWA Democrat-Gazette/Carin Schoppmeyer)
Jackson Hammontree (from left), Maggie Hammontree and Springdale P.D. Det. Bobby Hammontree and spouse Anne stand for a photograph on the the Youngsters’s Security Heart of Washington County Handprints for Hope luncheon Feb. 21 on the Fayetteville Public Library. The group acknowledged Det. Hammontree as Excellent Company Companion on the luncheon. (NWA Democrat-Gazette/Carin Schoppmeyer)
Jordyn Wieber, UA girls’s gymnastics head coach (heart), is joined by Kyla Ross (left) and Jackie Terpak on the Handprints for Hope luncheon. Wieber supplied the keynote remarks on the Youngsters’s Security Heart fundraiser. (NWA Democrat-Gazette/Carin Schoppmeyer)
Keith Roberts and Laurice Hachem-Roberts (from left) Ellis Ellis and Debbie Evans have fun Mardi Gras with the Bentonville Backyard Membership on Feb. 21 at Pinnacle Nation Membership in Rogers. (NWA Democrat-Gazette/Carin Schoppmeyer)
Darin and Tami Grey (from left) and Invoice Kyser go to on the Bentonville Backyard Membership Mardi Gras celebration. (NWA Democrat-Gazette/Carin Schoppmeyer)
Joe and Larra Donaldson assist assist the Youngsters’s Security Heart of Washington County on the Handprints for Hope luncheon Feb. 21 on the Fayetteville Public Library. (NWA Democrat-Gazette/Carin Schoppmeyer)
Katie and Rodney Redman have fun Mardi Gras with the Bentonville Backyard Membership. (NWA Democrat-Gazette/Carin Schoppmeyer)
Teri Head (from left), Kathy Muldoon, Melody Martens, Lisa Lockwood and Jessica Grey collect on the Bentonville Backyard Membership Mardi Gras celebration Feb. 21 at Pinnacle Nation Membership in Rogers. (NWA Democrat-Gazette/Carin Schoppmeyer)
Linda Stiles and Invoice Kyser have fun Mardi Gras with the Bentonville Backyard Membership. (NWA Democrat-Gazette/Carin Schoppmeyer)
(NWA Democrat-Gazette/Carin Schoppmeyer)
Rick and Jennifer Apolskis have fun Mardi Gras with the Bentonville Backyard Membership. (NWA Democrat-Gazette/Carin Schoppmeyer)
