Walkling memorial trust helps fund community groups in 2018

Published 1:30 am Wednesday, December 20, 2017

The Ben and Myrtle Walkling Memorial Trust recently announced awards for more than $20,000 in community grants to be awarded in 2018.

Myrtle Walkling, who died in 1992, created this trust in her will and funded it with more than $1 million. It was her intent that the income from the trust be used for charitable and civic projects that otherwise might not happen.

Walkling 2018 grant awards include:

Parenting Matters Foundation, $2,500 — Provide parenting education classes

Guardian Institute, $2,500 — Start the Volunteer Guardian Advocate Program, training volunteers to be guardians to vulnerable adults

Joyce Community Education Foundation, $2,500 — Purchase equipment for the culinary arts and woodshop programs of the Building Careers project

Olympic Medical Center Foundation, $2,000 — Capital funds campaign to expand the OMC Cancer Center

Sequim Food Bank, $2,000 — Purchase turkeys for the Family Holiday Meal Program.

Peninsula Behavioral Health, $2,000 —Purchase medical supplies, including Hemoglobin A1C kits.

Peninsula Friends of Animals, $2,000 — Purchase a Tuff Shed storage building to store pet food donations

Serenity House of Clallam Count, $2,000 — Support four units of clean and sober family shelter

The Answer for Youth (TAFY), $2,000 — Purchase a new surveillance system

Clallam Mosaic, $1,300 — Implement a food education program for individuals with developmental disabilities

Rainforest Council for the Arts, $500 — Printing class by artist Paul Blake.