The Ben and Myrtle Walkling Memorial Trust will award $23,529 in community grants in 2019.

Myrtle Walkling, who died in 1992, created the 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 in Clallam County that otherwise might not happen.

The 2019 grant awards are:

• Boys & Girls Club of the Olympic Peninsula, $2,500 — Funds to be used toward the purchase of a new 15-passenger van for the Port Angeles Club

• Clallam Mosaic, $2,413 — Funds to be used to support the costs for nutrition and cooking classes

• Healthy Families, $2,500 — Funds to be used to install security equipment

• Joyce Community Education Foundation, $2,500 — Funds to be used to fund STEM kits and computer software

• Olympic Nature Experience, $500 — Funds to be used to purchase outdoor gear

• Olympic Peninsula YMCA, $2,500 — Funds to be used toward a planned space renovation to convert office space into a dedicated Youth Activity Center

• Olympic View Community Foundation, $2,000 — Funds to be used to support Opening Doors to Youth, Sequim Host Homes, a project to provide safe living accommodations for homeless youth in Sequim

• Peninsula Behavioral Health, $2,500 — Funds to be used toward renovating space to create the new Children’s Behavioral Health Center

• Port Angeles Food Bank, $1,866.16 — Funds to be used to purchase shelving for walk-in freezers

• Rainforest Council for the Arts, $500 — Funds to be used to provide quality art supplies

• Sequim Community Aid, $1,250 — Funds to be used to create an “Emergency Warming Fund” to benefit those in need with heating issues within the Sequim School District

• Boys & Girls Club of the Olympic Peninsula, $2,500 — Funds to be used toward the Building Futures Capital Campaign fund to build a new Port Angeles clubhouse.