By Barbara Scott
Staff Writer
Nancy Chandler has announced that the Caribou Children’s Discovery Museum has been awarded a $5,000 grant from the Narragansett Number One Foundation from Bar Mills.
The Narragansett Number One Foundation is a Maine non-profit corporation established by Pat and Erwin Wales in 2001, 13 days after winning the national Powerball lottery drawing. To get things started, the Wales family donated $5 million to the foundation which accepts donations from other individuals, organizations or companies if they so wish.
In early May, Chandler, who is president of the CCDM, wrote a grant application to the Narragansett Number One Foundation and by the middle of last month, received the exciting news that the Children’s Discovery Museum would receive the grant.
Chandler would also like to remind everyone that the CCDM will be involved in many fund-raisers this summer. The group will be sponsoring the summer-long fundraiser, Summer Cash Splash. CCDM volunteers and board members will be selling raffle tickets for cash drawings to take place every day during the month of September, for a total of $1,200.
Each day a drawing will be held for a different amount of money — for example, on Sept. 15, the drawing will be for $200. Every Saturday the winners of $75 will be drawn and on Sundays the amount will be $50.
“This is a great opportunity for folks to help the Children’s Discovery Museum reach its goal of establishing a center of learning and fun for Aroostook children and their families,” Chandler stated.
Summer Cash Splash tickets will be sold at the Arootsakoostik Festival in New Sweden, July 9; at the Fort Fairfield Potato Blossom Festival, and at the Caribou Cares About Kids weekend in August.
For more information on the Caribou Children’s Discovery Museum go to www.cariboudiscovery.org.
