Foothills Community Foundation celebrated its 15th anniversary on September 23rd at the Bleckley Inn with approximately 140 guests in attendance. Board chairman Gray Suggs welcomed the guests and asked all founders and former board members to stand for recognition. He thanked them for their leadership, vision and generosity. Many of the Foundation’s original board members…
This is a joint venture between tba, the City of Anderson, and First Baptist Church. tba is raising the money and will build the park. The City of Anderson will maintain the park. First Baptist Church is allowing us to use its parking lot between Benson Street and East Whitner Street. tba (to be announced or to…
Foothills Community Foundation is pleased to announce the 2014 recipients of the Jonny A. Lyons Memorial Scholarship. A bequest from Mrs. John Joseph Lyons provides scholarship assistance to descendants of former Orr-Lyons Mill employees. Her legacy will live on in perpetuity through the Lyons Memorial Scholarship Fund. Each recipient receives a $2,000 scholarship from Foothills…
In March 2006, the cupboards at the Anderson Emergency Soup Kitchen were bare. The volunteers who prepare hot nutritional meals for needy persons five days per week were struggling to meet their mission. McLester McDowell, Chairperson explained, “We are dependent upon the goodwill of individuals, churches and grants to provide these meals. There is only…