October 28, 2016
Board of
Commissioners
Grant Awarded to Parks and Recreation’s Wheelchair Sports Program
Regular Meetings November 1 at 9:00 AM November 15 at 6:30 PM Meetings held at: Administration Building Community Room 140 Henry Parkway McDonough, GA 30253 Regular Commission meetings air daily on Henry TV Channel 180 and AT&T U-Verse Channel 99, at 9 a.m. & 7 p.m.
The Henry County Parks and Recreation Therapeutic Recreation Division was awarded a $10,000 grant from the Resurgens Charitable Foundation on October 11 for its Wheelchair Sports programs. This is the first grant of its kind for Parks and Rec and was conceived and written by Therapeutic Recreation Specialist Harlon Matthews, who has coordinated the Wheelchair Sports program since 2006. Matthews drafted the grant request with equipment replacements in mind, since all of Henry County’s sport wheelchairs are over eight years old and Henry County youth wheelchair sports teams are in need of basketballs, basketball nets, adaptive footballs, ball storage racks and tools. The grant funds will be used to purchase much needed youth sports equipment and will be used to replace five of the old sport wheelchairs. President of Resurgens Charitable Foundation thanked Henry County Parks and Rec “for this opportunity to support your wheelchair sports program and help your athletes continue to thrive and succeed. We greatly appreciate the work of the Henry County Parks and Recreation’s Therapeutic Division.”
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