Year-end giving has put fundraising efforts for Clarendon’s water recreation project over the halfway point in meeting a $500,000 anonymous challenge.
A $100,000 donation from the Charles E. & Thelma A. Bairfield Memorial Foundation last week was the largest gift to the project to date, according to Mayor Sandy Skelton.
“The Steering/Fundraising Committee is very grateful for the $100,000 donation from the Bairfield Memorial Foundation for Clarendon’s proposed aquatic center,” Skelton said. “Our total raised has now reached $253,000 which is 51 percent of our goal of raising $500,000 in order to match our benefactor’s grant.”
Skelton said committee members are now beginning to approach other foundations throughout the Panhandle as well as encouraging Clarendon and Donley County residents to donate/pledge as soon as possible.
For more information about the project, call City Administrator David Dockery at 874-3438. Donations may also be mailed to the Donley County Community Fund, PO Box 906, Clarendon, TX 79226 and please note “water project” in the memo.
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