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…
Foothills Community Foundation is pleased to announce the 2012 recipients of the Jonny A. Lyons Memorial Scholarship. A bequest from Mrs. John Joseph Lyons provides scholarship assistance to descendants of Orr-Lyons Mill employees. Her legacy will live on in perpetuity through the Lyons Memorial Scholarship Fund. The four recipients of the Lyons Scholarship for 2012…
The American Red Cross Western Carolinas Region Recently received a grant of $5,000 from the Foothills Community Foundation as a reward for raising over $20,000 in Anderson County. Anderson Red Cross board chairman Louise Trammell said “We appreciate the continued support of the Foundation. Mr. Rainey and his efforts have greatly helped to finance disaster…