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Community Helps Raise $1,700 Toward Challenge Grant

(Photo by Margaret Steck)

The Senior Center’s “New Start” community pancake breakfast on April 25 brought out 204 attendees and raised $1,700 toward the center’s $25,000 challenge grant. The event was put on by a group of 40 volunteers, ranging from 12-years-of-age to the eldest, who was in her eighties. Additionally, the center raised $900, which will go toward the actual event cost.

WCSC’s Executive Director Kathleen Cromp tells us that while they wanted to raise money and move closer to their 25K goal, the breakfast was really about saying thank you to the community. “It was about celebrating the fact that we even have the opportunity,” she says. “It was a great event, and everybody worked really, really hard.”

Since the event, Cromp says a few other donors have come forward, and that they could potentially offer sizeable donations. The anonymous donor of the challenge grant still hasn’t given them a hard and fast deadline, but the center plans to keep working diligently toward fundraising in the months to follow.

Great job to all!

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Erin Leach-Kemon

Erin Leach-Kemon moved to Seattle from her one-stoplight hometown of Middleburg, Va. in fall 2008. She completed her bachelor’s degree in English at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Va. Before moving to the Pacific Northwest, she interned as a staff writer at local newspapers and magazines, as well as working as a student affairs intern/House Mom/ pub crawl organizer in Bath, England. Currently residing in Wallingford, she regularly contributes stories to her neighborhood blog, Wallyhood and works as a technical writer for Microsoft. Her interests range from European country hopping, non-fiction writing (primarily on the city’s metro buses) and the occasional dumpster dive.