Photo: Attending the presentation were (front row, L-R) Linda Seemans (board), Barbara Rose (board), Leslie Steen (St. Michaels High School After-Prom), Harley Gates (St. Michaels Community Center), Jo Storey (Pickering Creek Audubon Center), Marianne Challoner (Bay Hundred Community Volunteers), Donna Cole (St. Michaels Museum at St. Mary’s Square), Karen Burger (board), Marlene Thomas (Critchlow Adkins Children’s Centers – St. Michaels Site) and Tracy Cohee (St. Michaels Family YMCA Summer Learning); (2nd row) Doug Reedy (Character Counts Mid-Shore), Linda King (Tilghman Waterman’s Museum), Mary Kellogg (Tilghman Waterman’s Museum), Lori Ramsey (Shared Table), Lynn Partridge (St. Michaels Museum at St. Mary’s Square), Mary Lou McAllister (board), and Debbie Collison (Drew Landis Memorial Fireworks Fund, Inc.); (3rd row) Jessica Kastel (St. Michaels Fire Department), Nancy Young (board), Jay Shotel (Tilghman Area Youth Association), Judy Krhounek (board), Kelley Cox (Phillips Wharf Environmental Center), and Ted Cutler (St. Michaels Little League); (4th row) Maggie Gowe (Care Packs of Talbot County), Josh Poore (Stop Bullying Talbot LLC), Liz LaCorte (Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Rising Tide Program), Bev Pratt (board) and Joan Schneider (board). Grant recipient Back Pack Project at Christ Church, St. Michaels was not represented at the reception. Photo by Proctor Photography
At a recent reception hosted by the Christmas in St. Michaels board, Linda Seemans, treasurer, presented checks to representatives of the organizations selected to receive the proceeds from the 2016 CISM fund-raising event in December. Ms. Seemans announced that Christmas in St. Michaels distributed more than $76,000 in grant money to the 2016 beneficiary organizations.
This year’s Christmas in St. Michaels event will take place December 8, 9 and 10. The event raises funds for non-profit organizations that provide support services to the St. Michaels community. Eligible organizations submit applications for funding that are reviewed by the Christmas in St. Michaels board. Since its founding in 1987, Christmas in St. Michaels has donated more than $1 million to local non-profits.
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