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2019 Fall Newsletter

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Annual Platte River Charity Shoot Returns for the 26th Year! After taking a year off, Goodwill Industries of Greater Nebraska and event partner, Hornady Manufacturing brought back the Platte River Charity Shoot for the twentysixth year. The event was on Saturday, August 17, 2019 at the Heartland Public Shooting Park, located west of Grand Island. In addition to an individual shooter competition, the event had competitions for corporate and adult/youth teams. This year’s event had 135 individuals, 18 corporate teams and 31 adult/youth team entries. Individuals competed for 8 places in 4 Lewis Class Divisions, with the first place prize being a Savage Axis .270 rifle. Youth shooters had a chance of winning one of eight college scholarships that were given away totaling $5,000 .

The Platte River Charity Shoot is The event steering committee began meeting and Goodwill Industries of Greater planning the Platte River Charity Shoot at the end Nebraska’s only fundraiser besides of April. They had a goal of raising $40,000 and the annual drive that kicks off in November. Funds raised at the surpassed that goal. event go to support mission programs and services provided by Goodwill Industries of Greater Nebraska. “We couldn’t have done it without the amazing sponsors, shooters and volunteers - everywhere A complete list of winners from the shooter competition and you looked there were orange volunteer t-shirts. general event raffle can be viewed at: The community support for our event was simply www.PlatteRiverCharityShoot.com. amazing” said Lindsey Miles, Director of Marketing (Please see our event sponsors on page 4) and Development, who was the event coordinator.


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