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PCCFF Treasurer Michelle Ross, left, presents a toiletry bag to Hailey Snyder, a 2019 Perkins County High School graduate. All of the graduates at PCHS received a similar bag from PCCFF.

PCCFF Update: PC Community Foundation Fund actively encourages youth to return home

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Another class of seniors recently graduated at Perkins County High School this past spring as they do every year. Another crop of our county’s best are ready to spread their wings and fly, but we at the Perkins County Community Foundation Fund aren’t letting our young people go so easily.

A few days before graduation, we reminded these seniors that although they may not fully understand what the community foundation fund is or does, we wanted them to know that what we are doing with the fund may impact their future someday if they consider coming back home, which we invited them to do.

We shared with them that the PCCFF is sort of like a piggy bank for the county, investing to help keep our home vibrant and viable for those who live here now and for future generations. 

Those who live here know there is no place like Perkins County, and soon our young graduates will find this out. As they earn their educations, start their jobs, settle down and start having families of their own, they will find out that the way of life here just can’t match that of the hustle and bustle of the city or larger community. 

We at the Perkins County Community Foundation Fund understand this. We left once too, and know how fortunate we are to live here. We are working hard to capture some of the generational wealth to help sustain our way of life for generations to come. 

Besides reminding our young graduates of the fact that we will be working on to maintain our county for them if they want to return, we also presented them with a going away gift—a personalized toiletry bag for each one. And, that’s not all. A few times throughout the coming three or four years, the community foundation fund will continue to touch base with each student, sending a friendly card and reminder that their hometown is still here with open arms waiting to welcome them back, if they so choose. Keeping in contact with the youth that our community has, in a sense, helped to raise in a hopes they will return, is just one way the PCCFF is working to make Perkins County a stronger place to live. 

Applications continue to be accepted 

Just a reminder that the PCCFF continues to accept requests for funding from the public through July 1. Those who have questions, or would like an application, can contact me at beckyuehling@hotmail.com or Treasurer Michelle Ross at michelle.ross@pinnbank.com.

 

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