JOURNAL COMMUNITY
THE GOOD
EVENTS THAT MAKE OUR COMMUNITY BETTER
The LPGA Invitational Golf Tournament will be held Sept. 23 at 9 a.m. at Cross Creek Plantation in Seneca. All proceeds will benefit Safe Harbor and the Foothills Area YMCA. Grounds pass tickets are $50 each and are now available online. For more information in forming a team for the tournament, contact Mark Ernst at mernst@crosscreekplantation.com. United Way of Greenville County announced this week the goal for the 2014 annual fall campaign was $17 million. More than 1,000 volunteers and representatives from more than 700 businesses and organizations attended the annual kickoff celebration, where 2014 campaign chair Michael Cinquemani, CEO and president of Master Power Transmission, announced the goal. Thirty-four Pacesetter companies have already turned in employee pledges totaling more than $3.7 million, or 22 percent of the overall goal. The campaign runs through Oct. 31. Call 864-467-3537 to find out how to get involved and visit unitedwaygc.org/give to contribute. Greenville will host the largest Welsh terrier gathering in the Southeast: the Welsh Terrier Walk 2014 on Sept. 12–14. The event will raise money and awareness for the WTCares rescue group. The weekend’s events include Welshies on Main Street followed by dinner at Mac’s Speed Shop and a Welsh Halloween Costume contest at the Phoenix Inn. WTCares is devoted to rescuing abandoned
Welsh terriers and finding them loving homes. For more information, visit wtcares.org. To register for the weekend events, visit welshiewalk2014tobenefitwtcares.eventbrite.com. A $3.4 million endowment at the Community Foundation has been funded by Jim and Kit Pearce to provide perpetual support for nonprofit organizations providing food, shelter, clothing and medications to those in need in the Greenville community. The James T. and Ellis A. Pearce Endowment continues a legacy of planned giving by Jim and his wife, Kit, who passed away in 2013. The first grants from the endowment will be made in September to GAIHN, Triune Mercy Center, United Ministries, Gateway House, Habitat for Humanity, Homes of Hope, Project Host, Harvest Hope and Greer Community Ministries. Fall for Greenville’s 2013 event awarded $5,000 grants to Sustaining Way, Loaves & Fishes and Culinary Institute of the Carolinas at Greenville Technical College this week. In addition, the festival presented a $20,000 grant to the Mill Village Farms Rooftop Initiative, which will help fund the first urban rooftop farm in South Carolina. The rooftop farm, located at the corner of East Washington and Main streets, will utilize vertical, aeroponic towers that can grow vegetables in 24 days. The 2014 festival is on Oct. 10-12 and a portion of the proceeds will benefit eight local charities. Festival taste tickets can be purchased at fallforgreenville.net through Oct. 1 and at Michelin on Main, 550 S. Main St., Sept. 22-Oct. 10.
Shew
Girl Scouts of South Carolina–Mountains to Midlands has appointed Jean Shew as 2014 chair for its Emerald Circle–Greenville County. The Emerald Circle is a philanthropic group for women who annually support the Girl Scout Leadership Experience and is united with circles in other counties. Shew is the health room manager at a local high school and formerly the director of the Entech 281 Robotics Team for two years, leading this high school engineering/technology team to two national championship events. For more information, contact Lee Ann Maley at 800-849-4475, ext. 2709.
The Greenville Tech Foundation recently received a gift of $19,970 from the BMW Charity Pro-Am, which will benefit Greenville Technical College and its students. Part of the gift is based on volunteer work done by representatives of GTC and GTF.
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26 THE JOURNAL | SEPTEMBER 5, 2014