Photo curtsey of: Jeff Simms Photography
Service Club Check Presentation
(Independent Photo/Bill Constine)
Checks for nearly $4,400 were distributed during Curwood Festival’s Full Council Meeting held at the Owosso City Hall.
Representatives of the groups gathered in the lower level lobby just after the meeting. They were from (not in order): the Owosso Historical Commission, Shiawassee Arts Council, American Legion Post 57, American Cancer Society team SOS, Owosso Kiwanis Club, Beta Sigma Phi Sorority and First Congregational Church Lydia Guild. Also, Christ Episcopal Church St. Mary’s Guild, Boy Scout Troop 455, Community District Library, CRW, Jumpstart Ministries, Owosso Christian School, Owosso-Corunna Lions Club, Owosso Christian School, Owosso Eagles Aerie 851 Auxiliary, Owosso Musicale, Pleasant View Auxiliary, Rangers 4-H, Redeemer Lutheran, Shiawassee Women’s Association Today and Tomorrow, and the Zonta Club of Owosso.
In addition, groups in the Mr. Owosso Contest raised $42,557 for their organizations, said Festival Office Manager Sherri Bakos. Groups which provided bartenders at The Outpost (paid-admission entertainment tent) received $2,600. Six groups hosting their own event before and during the Festival raised over $4,300. Three groups with their own food booths earned over $2,000 and three high school bands received $1,500 for their scholarship programs.
Representatives of the groups gathered in the lower level lobby just after the meeting. They were from (not in order): the Owosso Historical Commission, Shiawassee Arts Council, American Legion Post 57, American Cancer Society team SOS, Owosso Kiwanis Club, Beta Sigma Phi Sorority and First Congregational Church Lydia Guild. Also, Christ Episcopal Church St. Mary’s Guild, Boy Scout Troop 455, Community District Library, CRW, Jumpstart Ministries, Owosso Christian School, Owosso-Corunna Lions Club, Owosso Christian School, Owosso Eagles Aerie 851 Auxiliary, Owosso Musicale, Pleasant View Auxiliary, Rangers 4-H, Redeemer Lutheran, Shiawassee Women’s Association Today and Tomorrow, and the Zonta Club of Owosso.
In addition, groups in the Mr. Owosso Contest raised $42,557 for their organizations, said Festival Office Manager Sherri Bakos. Groups which provided bartenders at The Outpost (paid-admission entertainment tent) received $2,600. Six groups hosting their own event before and during the Festival raised over $4,300. Three groups with their own food booths earned over $2,000 and three high school bands received $1,500 for their scholarship programs.
Curwood Playscape Dontation
 Independent Photo/BILL CONSTINE
A $3,500 donation to the planned Bentley Park Playscape was approved by the Curwood Festival Board during Wednesday night’s meeting at Owosso City Hall following a presentation by Owosso Parks and Recreation Commission member Mike Espich (standing), who is also vice present of the volunteer Festival’s board.
The board voted to donate $1,000 by the end of next month, with the balance donated after the June 7 through 10 Festival. The money will be designated for an “L” slide, which originates in the center of the Playscape tower (inset). That is the Festival’s latest donation to a community project. In the fall, Curwood Festival was the first donor to the project for a life-size statue of author-conservationist James Oliver Curwood, detailed by Rick Wheeler of Corunna, to be in memory of sculptor/artist Ryan Leslie, who had planned the project but died last summer. The Festival’s history of community fundraising and donations includes $25,000, which went to the Heritage Footbridge, between Curwood Castle Park and downtown, paid over five years from each year’s Festival. That is in addition to the tens of thousands of dollars Mr. Owosso candidates raise for their favorite charity each year – and the money the Festival pays to participating non-profit groups. Listening to Espich’s comments were (seated, from left): Nicholas Good, Brian Reed, Kaylee Luft, President Debra Adams Mills, Treasurer Jason Nequist, John Smith, Secretary Kelly Van Poppenlen and Owosso Public Safety Director Mike Compeau, the city’s liaison on the Festival board. Major donors to the Playscape project include the Owosso Kiwanis Club (evening group), which made a $10,000 contribution. Source: http://www.owossoindependent.com |
Revised Bentley Playscape Renderings Click to download complete rendering
These are the revised Bentley Playscape Renderings that now include Curwood Festivals generous donation and several others. Thank-you all for making this happen for our youth.
There are only two pieces of equipment now remaining, as well several benches and picnic tables; please feel free to pass this along to anyone you know who might be interested in helping complete this project. |
