2016 Annual ReportTUCKERCOMMUNITYFOUNDATION

We have the power.Yes. We have the power. To export.

West Virginia and the highlands of Maryland are blessed with an abundance of natural resources: wind, water, wood, coal and gas. Those resources have always been prized elsewhere and maybe taken for granted here.

Take water for instance. Much of the United States, especially the West, hardly knows where to turn to find this precious liquid. But here, we spend a lot of resources diverting, shedding, and protecting ourselves from water.

The whole idea is to get to know our service area better both for us and for you. Two years ago we took a peek into Mineral County and last year we spent a bit of time in Pocahontas County. For this year’s annual report, we are focusing on Grant County.

This means meeting people who live there. Hanging around town with open eyes. It also means looking to where the power comes from. Be it the Mt. Storm power plant and windmills or the rolling branches of the Potomac River that wind through Petersburg, WV.

As usual, we find that the real power is with the people who live here. By getting to know them, we can see where Grant County has come from and where it might be heading. We can also see the opportuni-ties for the Tucker Community Foundation to get involved.

And this document serves as an open invitation to come along for the ride. If you see a place in Grant County or any of our eight county service area that could benefit from our shared resources, don’t hes-itate to get in touch.

The reality is that, our mountainous produce goes on to support your urban habits. It’s hidden. We’re hidden. You don’t care and we’re used to that. But it doesn’t have to be this way. We have the power. We have the power to foster our own communities; to help ourselves to thrive.

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Our Mission

Creating opportunities for thecommunities we serve.

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You don’t need to be crazyto work here -- but it helps

Thus reads the sign behind Harman. Fredrick W. Harman. We spell it M-A-N. Some folks go M-O-N. Put thirty-five in there. Got 10 years here; or will in November. I been working here since I retired over there.Where’s over there?Southern States.Harman drinks a mean cup of coffee. He also buses tables at Family Traditions in Petersburg, WV.

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Table of Contents

WE HAVE THE POWER a

WHERE WE ARE 2

STORIESToSomeExtent 6InsideOutsider 22ThisPlaceisSpecial 26AQuickTrim 33BucketList 34Waterways 46

PROJECTSUncleSam’s 8Food&Farm 12BoulderPark 14YouthPhilanthropy 14RunForIt 16

ENDOWED FUNDSScholarships 36NewEndowments 38Grants 39Donors 42

IN MEMORIAMLaVernaWhite 48

FINANCIAL REPORT 50

CALENDAR 50

BOARD & STAFF 51

VISION STATEMENT 52

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2016 Annual Report - Money

Where We Are

DISTRIBUTIONS

$235,357 Run For It $267,236 Competitive & Designated Grants $59,550 Scholarships $895,000 Harman Fund $1,457,143 Total Grants & Scholarships

UNRESTRICTED INCOME

$107,035 Kep & Alice Smith Trust Income

CONTRIBUTIONS

$698,928 2016 Donations

FISCAL SPONSORSHIPS

The Foundation serves as fiscal sponsor for some projects and non-profits. Audit available at:tuckerfoundation.net

Our House Ministries Youth Center Warm the Children Heart of the Highlands Wade’s World of Wonder Playground Blackwater Bicycle Association Thumb Project

TOTAL ASSETS MANAGED $23,096,795

TOTAL INVESTMENTS $22,631,251

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To Some Extent

To hold the keys to a community, metaphoric or otherwise it to know a place. To know it so well that all the stories blend together. It’s really hard to find the beginning of anything. Because this begat that and that begot this. The history cycles around here are driven by natural resources. And water above all else directs the flow.

The Flood of 1985 devastated Grant County, just like it did in Tucker County and Randolph, Barbour and really just anywhere downstream of the down-pour. It hammered Petersburg just like the Flood of ‘49 and ‘36. It was just the like the flood of 2016 in Greenbrier County.

And maybe there is a pattern there. A pattern of growth and rebirth; a blurring of the stories to where we cannot remember which flood it was that brought about all of this change and really who the change was for.

At left is Tim Parks. He has built his family on three-core blocks. Now we got two cores. Fours, sixes, eights, tens and twelves. You can build a wall out of their blocks if’n you want. They used to make 3 types of blocks in all the sizes, but the workers building the chicken houses used em all the same and complained about how heavy the corner sash blocks were, so they started making a chicken house 8’s which didn’t weigh so much. This is a 3-core block. It was made right side up. Now they’re made upside down. It used to take a few minutes to make. Now it’s 15-20 seconds to make three 8” blocks. This is all Greek to you as, Tim pointed out, it was to me.

Time and time again I mistype Tim’s name with an extra “e”. That makes Time Parks. Which could explain his preoccupation with history in this area. There are a lot of things that perplex him. Like how did they get all that timber outta here.

“I’m educated with maps. I love to read maps.” And he separates Grant County into layers. “The top of the mountain is coal,” up by Mount Storm, despite the argument that there wasn’t no coal in Grant County. Downslope is chicken and lumber. And a lotta water. Water was the greatest resource. And flood control. “We build the flood control dams on Patterson Creek: one to 41. Nine, ten, eleven on Loonies creek.”

Parks is a numbers guy. “Everything,” he says, “is taking the place of a wheelbarrow. Five nines is 45...800. Back then we loaded 1 block at a time, 420 on a truck. I still have it in my head. We loaded a cube (90 blocks) on each side, that’s 180. 8hp motor Briggs + Straton. Trucks #6, 7, 8. Hoppy Van Meter had Bluebird. I named numbers after ‘em. Up to truck 84 today, that includes pickups. Donald Oyers, DO, he drives truck 80. DL, I got him driving a little bit of everything. Dad said they bend in the middle – articulated – front end loader.”

“My fondest memory is how many bags of cement were in a railroad car: 528.” How many those you loaded?“Ha! Quite a few.”

While it isn’t clear if I ever got the beginning and end of the same story, it is clear that Tim Parks has seen a lot of the rise and fall in Grant County. That a lot of businesses were tied to the rivers with lumber, coal, and tanning all using the abundant resource: water. Things have gone out of here and things have come in. Some good and some bad. Parks has one of the few family-owned businesses left in Petersburg and it’s still churning out blocks when it’s too rainy to pour ready-mix. The future of his business is unclear.

“This kinda family business, I gotta take it by the tail,” he says.

“And I can’t hold on and I can’t let go.”

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Uncle Sam’sBirthday Party

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PRODUCERS

Master of CeremoniesJed Drenning

SponsorsMt. Valley BankMiners & Merchants BankCitizen’s National Bank of WVGrant County BankFirst Energy Foundation

DecorationsThomas YardElla

RAFFLE WINNERS

Tom KalogHis & Hers Apple Watches

Shannon Anderson-UjvagiGreenbrier Getaway Weekend

Kathleen LarkinTotally Tucker Package

$125Mariwyn SmithDave LambertAdam GregoryBob & Arlene SnyderKathy & Shawn NicholsTerry StoneRonald & Ellen ShafferTommy ZeitzMary FordMike DeVilderEleanor Nestor

$200Kathy Kugel

$300Amber Gatewood

$400Mt. Top Realty

$2,750Trudy & Bill DefoydNancy Dotson

ELIMINATION DRAWING WINNERS

Every year, Tucker Community Foundation hosts a patriotic birthday party. The benefit gala raises money for the Foundation’s grants & scholarship awards.

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Bruce & Nancy AndersonJoan & Larry ArmbrusterJane BarbLeo & Janette Basile Diane & Ken BaumDiane & Ronnie BeallMitchell BeallMike BellDeborah BerryDon BlackMelissa BorowitzChris & Hilary BoyceJeanne Boury & Brad MooreSharon BrounDan & Judy BucherDanny & Phyllis CarrNick CarrDeb ChapmanMarc ChenowethJoe ChenowethLaurie Little & Chip ChaseSheila ClarkBeth ClevengerSheila Coleman-CastellsLoretta CooperJohn & Thisbe CooperMichael CvechkoSusie CvechkoBruce & Andy DaltonPaul DaughertyRachelle DavisCalvin & Barb DearbornJohn & Mandy DearbornJudy DearbornElaine Moore & Deborah McHenryCharles DeBerryTrudy & Bill DefoydTom DerbyshireSheila DeVilderMike DeVilderRenee DiBaccoDan & Linda DillySusan & Mikey DiPettaMark & Marsha DoakMargret & Michelle DorseyNancy DotsonKatie Larkin & Kate DullnigBob & Karen DunkerleyTobin McKnight & Erin PatrickMatt & Autumn EvansJohn & Titi FergusonDennis FlanaganPriscilla FlanaganAlice FleischmanSarah FletcherMary FordChris FryPam Frye

Dreama GatensAmber GatewoodNina & Bob GattoRobbie & Chelsea GilliganJake & Pat GosaMike GossSaundra GossAmy & Sam GoughnourSanford GreenLiz & Adam GregoryCarol GwinnAlyssa HannaDavid HansfordTim & Leesa HarrisBill HartmanLori HaynesJim HebbMaggie & Mark HeckTom HeywoodScott HinkleBen & Lauren HinkleTad HolipskiNick & Solena HovatterHarvey HuffmanKaren JacobsonEd Watson & Jenny NewlandBill JohnsonMark JosephTom KalogRobin KalogJeff KelleyJana KincaidRichard KnottsPatrick & Kathy KottenErica & Michael KraemerTom & Julie KucerTom KugelKathy KugelDave LambertSteve & Joyce LambrunoRay LaMoraKatie LaMoraRon LaNeveMike LeddenMarcia LemonTina LipscombMaggie & Athey LutzBob LynchDan LyonsDee & Anthony MancusoSally MarksMike & Gwen MartinDave MatthewDoug MayorRobin McClintockTim & Paula McLeanJoe & Jinx McNeerBob MetzgerFred Meyer

Chris MichaelCarol MilamDoug MilamDavid MillerSharon MoatsLowell & Donna MooreMike & Susan MullensHerb & Sarah MyersLois NelsonFord NestorEleanor NestorKathy & Shawn NicholsMilan NyplMarvin & Jane ParsonsJoJo PattersonKaren & Bill PetersonBarb & Carl PlumleyJohn & Holly PlunkettAlisa & Paul PolingJanet Preston Ed & Diane RaderWalt RanalliRandall ReedMike & Debbie RitterKelly & Sandy RobertsSkyler RobertsFrank RobertsRachel RobertsFaith RobinsonClaire Cassidy & John RosineKen & Mary RothschildJean RuckmanBob SchaafKeri & Jeremy SellsMichael & Sandy ShafferEllen & Ronnie ShafferChris Ujvagi & Shannon AndersonAngie ShockleyMatt ShockleyMarilyn ShoenfeldSue & Terry SilkBill & Sherry SimmonsMary & Wayne SmithMariwyn SmithRandy & Patty SmithErika SmithGene & Joanie SmithKen & Bonnie SmithArlene & Bob SnyderJan SomervilleSid SponaugleNana & Tabitha SponaugleLou SponaugleKatie Beall & Steve RossGreg StevensTerry StoneKeith StrasbaughHillary StrawserArden Swecker

David SypoltEvin & Kristin ThomasRay & Roxanne TuesingDanny WagnerTyler WaldoLori WallTeresa WamsleyPaul WamsleyDoug WetschKevin & Debbie WhiteChrissy WilfongBruce & Gerri WilsonMary Sue WittMartha WolfeTed Wolfe Jr.Merill WoodsTommy Zeitz426 Hemi Twins Mt. Top Realty Performance Motors Digger Stadelman Consulting Mt. Top Realty Parsons Woodworking Canaan Valley Lawn & Land-scaping United Financial Center Riverfront Antiques Scott & Nypl, CPA’s Picket Patch

2016 Uncle Sam’s Ticket Holders

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Food & Farm InitiativePotomac Highlands

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Highland Market

$203,173 Retail Market & Workshop Proceeds $169,690 Purchases from Farmers & Producers

We can also buy three lambs at a time. Delicious ones. In 2016, our Highland Market installed the walk-in cooler that enables all of this. It lets us purchase whole animals. That along with our Food Service Permit allows us to prepare foods, whole foods for people without the time or skills to do it for themselves. All of this increases our capacity to purchase food from local farmers. And that ensures that we have a more dependable supply of food to share with locals and travellers to our Davis, West Virginia storefront.

Farmers grow food in and on the land, this land. They then sell that however they can. There are options and challenges. Selling food directly from the farm to the family’s dinner table takes time away from farming. It often doesn’t work for shoppers’ schedules either. Selling it in bulk brings a lower price, but can be convenient. To simplify the process for both the farmer and the family – trying to keep the conve-nience for both parties and keep it here – this is the notion of a Food Hub.

Kimmy Clements, Program Director, travelled to Burlington, VT with the help of the Value Chain Cluster Initiative and scholarship from the University of Vermont to study with food hub experts. The goal was to learn how people from around the world, including the US, Canada, and Finland, are feeding their communities with their own food. She brought back a Food Hub Management Certificate along with the knowledge to share.

It kinda all comes full circle. The idea is to grow the food here and to eat it here. The goal is to buy the whole hog and to share every last bit of it with your community.

Now we can buy the whole hog

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Tucker Boulder Park

It’s an improbable project, something more likely in an affluent Western mountain town. The Boulder Park started as an idea inspired by the earth moving for Corridor H. But to have one here, in the heart of the Appalachians, is a unique thing.

And as Sisyphus doggedly rolled his boulders uphill only to repeat again and again, the Tucker Commu-nity Foundation has been moving mountains and motivating donors for the past four years. By wit, by charm, and by any means possible this project has rolled along gathering supporters along the way.

Much of 2016 was a building year, laying the groundwork, the plans and paperwork, for the actual installation. As this report goes to press, the first boulders are rolling across the country on a flatbed. And there will be rocks on the ground by early July 2017.

That’s exciting. It’s actually happening: dreams realized. But our work isn’t over. The Foundation is still raising funds for the third and final boulder. So this is where you can help.

tcrocks.org

Youth Philanthropy

Philanthropy is a big word to a kid. But the concept is a simple one, rooted in paying attention to the world where we are. This is where we are. This is what is here. This is what we have. And this is what we care about.

The Foundation’s Youth Philanthropy program, Penelope’s Club, launched with blue skies and boats. The children first imagined their vision of a perfect world, a world where the sky is always blue. After that, we presented a challenge: a figura-tive flood. They had to decide what one item they would bring on the rescue boat. Objectively looking at their choices helped them to understand their values, to what is important.

These exercises served to solidify the concept. It comes easily, as these kids are naturally kind and giving to those around them every day. The club exposes them to the world and language of philan-thropy, service, and giving.

They debated which local organizations could best use a youth philanthropy grant. In the end, they chose to support the library that has been a part of their lives for as long as they remember. It all comes back to attending the present moment. This is where we are right now. This is who we are.

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Run For ItIt was the 10 year anniversary of this philanthropic race. The numbers all broke every record, more team sponsors, more participants. We surpassed the $1 million distribution mark, setting a high water mark right around $1.2 million over 10 years.

BEST EFFORT Team size & support raised

$1,500 Team Hannah Youth camp scholarships $1,250 Mountain Laurel Learning Cooperative Educational programming $1,000 Fresh Canvas Creative arts programming / education $750 Belington Public Library Bookaneers Belington Public Library $500 Philippi Public Library Bookworms Philippi Public Library $500 Heart of the Highlands Trail System Connecting trail system in Tucker County

MOST $$ RAISED $1,500 Mountaintop Readers Mountaintop Public Library $1,250 Team Boulder Park Community enhancement project $1,000 Friends of the Cheat Cheat River Watershed preservation and restoration $750 Challenged Athletes of WV Adaptive recreational programs $500 Rowdy Readers Russell Memorial Public Library / Mill Creek

Top Team Awards

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PHOTO: Allegheny Photography

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YOUTH MALE1 $300 Josh Callaway Team Hannah 2 $200 Dustin Fridley Oak Dale Church 3 $100 Logan Eakle Team Hannah YOUTH FEMALE1 $300 Mackenzie Zirk Eastern Mountains Young Life 2 $200 Rachel Friend Team Hannah 3 $100 Tory Paul Tucker County Youth Softball

ADULT MALE $300 Brian Zirk Eastern Mountains Young Life $200 Chris Ujvagi Challenged Athletes of WV $100 Mitchell Beall CVVFD Auxiliary Power

ADULT FEMALE $300 Haley Gillespie Oakland Rotary Satellite Club $200 Jennifer Friend Team Hannah $100 Rosetta Zirk Eastern Mountains Young Life

MASTERS MALE $300 Ed Rader Mountaintop Readers $200 Mark Tracy Challenged Athletes of WV $100 Allen Rapp Team Hannah MASTERS FEMALE $300 Diane Beall CVVFD Auxiliary Power $200 Joanne Patterson Alpine Heritage Preservation / Artspring $100 Stephanie Platz-Vieno Govcon Accountants for Tucker County EMS

80+M $300 Charles Tewksbury WV Mountain Ministries 80+F $300 Glenda DelSignore WV Mountain Ministries $200 Mary Evans Mountaintop Readers $100 Caroline Allen Philippi Public Library Bookworms

2k Walk Results

10 & UNDER MALE1 $100 Tyler Anderson Davis Thomas Little League2 $100 Kyle Reed Cub Scout Pack 883 $100 Aiden Phares Homestead PTA 10 & UNDER FEMALE1 $100 Zanna Logar Mountain Laurel Learning Co-op2 $100 Addie Hicks Tucker County Youth Softball3 $100 Katie Hicks Tucker County Youth Softball 11-14 MALE1 $100 Roland Moylan Garrett Trails2 $100 Nicholas Hamrick Belington Public Library3 $100 Will Meagher Kalie’s Crew 11-14 FEMALE1 $100 Jaycee Thompson Belington Public Library2 $100 Katelyn Falls Tucker County Animal Shelter3 $100 Ella Spencer WV Mountain Ministries MALE 15-191 $100 Will White Eastern Mountains Young Life2 $100 Christopher Chambers Eastern Mountains Young Life3 $100 John Anderson Mountaintop Readers

FEMALE 15-19 $100 Sam Swift Kalie’s Crew $100 Megan Koziarski Kalie’s Crew $100 Natalie Evans Eastern Mountains Young Life MALE 20-29 $100 Dustin Smith New Historic Thomas $100 Jason Aerni Belington Public Library $100 Zachary Eakle Team Hannah FEMALE 20-29 $100 Ashley Cassidy Tucker County Animal Shelter $100 Hilary Bright Preston Mat Club $100 Phoebe Shaw Tucker Boulder Park MALE 30-39 $100 Matt Bright Team Hannah $100 David Blackley Tucker Boulder Park $100 Athey Lutz New Historic Thomas FEMALE 30-39 $100 Kendra Hogan Friends of the Cheat $100 Cecily Garber Heart of the Highlands Trail System $100 Charlotte Johnson Mountaintop Readers $100 Sarah Hunt Mountain Laurel Learning Co-op

MALE 40-49 $100 Kevin Dixon Preston Mat Club $100 Steven Green Garrett Trails $100 Scott Clark Jim & Louise Cooper Family Fund FEMALE 40-49 $100 Susan Haywood Mountaintop Readers $100 Christina Rawson Canaan Valley Ski Patrol $100 Ashley Orr WV Trout Unlimited MALE 50-59 $100 Tom Kines Philippi Public Library Bookworms $100 Jose Dose Carrasquillo Mountaintop Readers $100 Doug Cowgill Highlands Trails Foundation FEMALE 50-59 $100 Robin Storey Kalie’s Crew $100 Natalie Jenkins WV Mountain Ministries $100 Lois Gillenwater Animal wellness MALE 60-69 $100 Larry Ferrens Garrett Trails $100 Chip Chase Team Boulder Park $100 David Rosenau Directors’ General Fund

FEMALE 60-69 $100 Adele Pitt Fresh Canvas $100 Deborah McHenry Mountaintop Readers $100 Adel Clark CVVFD Auxiliary Power MALE 70-79 $100 James Judy PRO-ON Trac $100 Vernon Redman WV Gold Star Mothers $100 Roger Milam Directors’ General Fund FEMALE 70-79 $100 Ann Miles Mountaintop Readers $100 Elizabeth Dean WV Mountain Ministries $100 Sarah Fletcher CVVFD Auxiliary Power MALE 80+ $100 Merrill Wood WV Mountain Ministries $100 Robert Cole Heart of the Highlands Trail System FEMALE 80+ $100 Mona Wood WV Mountain Ministries

FASTEST MALE1 $1,000 Tony Casey Team Boulder Park 2 $750 Derek Bolyard Team Hannah3 $500 Aaron Schwarzbard Heart of the Highlands Trail System

FASTEST FEMALE $1,000 Martha Nelson Heart of the Highlands Trail System $750 Kelly Williams CVVFD Auxiliary Power $500 Marie Friend - Bolyard Team Hannah

5k Race Results

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YOUNGEST REGISTERED PARTICIPANTM $100 Ragan Lutz New Historic ThomasF $100 Kartyr Phillips Mountain Laurel Learning Cooperative

OLDEST REGISTERED PARTICIPANTM $100 Ira Miller 99 Team HannahF $100 Caroline Pell 94 Davis Renaissance Team (In honor LaVerna White) $100 TO 2K LUCK OF THE DRAW $100 Annabelle Lively Philippi Public Library Bookworms $100 Thomas King Mountain Laurel Learning Cooperative $100 Judy Kennedy Mountaintop Readers $100 Maria Van Hook Directors’ General Fund $100 Darren Burnside Eastern Mountains Young Life $100 TO 5K LUCK OF THE DRAW $100 Javier Garcia WV Gold Star Mothers $100 Josh Tompkins Fresh Canvas $100 Melissa Wass Kalie’s Crew $100 Marshall Markley Citizens Bank of WV - Child Advocacy Center $100 Jeanie McLaughlin Aurora Area Historical Society

TEAM AWARDS Gold Star Awards (Discretionary)Challenged Athletes Gold Star $500 Largest Team Kalie’s Crew $500 Challenged Athletes of WV David McDowell $500 Team Spirit North Fork Watershed Project $250 Team Spirit Oak Dale Church $250 Team Spirit Aurora Area Historical Society BEST TEAM T-SHIRT $300 Wades World of Wonder WOW Playground $200 Aurora Area Historical Society $200 Kingwood Elementary School Stags $100 Literacy Volunteers of Randolph County BEST OF REGION AWARD $1,000 WV Trout Unlimited $500 Highlands Trail Foundation

PROUD TO BE ENDOWED AWARDS $100 each Fund / project After School Explorers Fund Tucker County EMS Fund ArtsBank Fund Kingwood Elementary School Fund Belington Public Library Fund Mountaintop Public Library Building Fund Billie Armstrong Fund Pioneer Memorial Public Library Fund Cortland Acres Association Fund Preston Community Fund Mountaineer Humane Society Fund Wades World of Wonder WOW Playground Taylor Beall Snyder Fund WV Highlands Artisans Group Fund Katherine Zabriskie Fund Tucker Boulder Park Dutch Easton Fund Utterback Fund McClain Fund Ellis Boury III Fund

CITIZENS BANK OF WEST VIRGINIA AWARDBest of Randolph $500 Rowdy Readers Russell Memorial Public Library / Mill CreekBest of Tucker $500 Mountaintop Readers Mountaintop Public Library

TUCKER COUNTY COMMISSION AWARDS Best Effort sliding scale $1,000 Mountaintop Public Library $750 Team Boulder Park $500 Team Hannah $500 Heart of the Highlands Trail System $500 Mountain Laurel Learning Cooperative $500 Fresh Canvas $400 WV Mountain Ministries $400 EB3 $400 New Historic Thomas

OTHER TUCKER COUNTY AWARDS $400 Five Rivers Public Library $300 Friends of Tucker County Animal Shelter $300 Tucker County EMS $300 PRO-ON Trac $250 WV Gold Star Mothers $250 Mountaineer Humane Society spay neuter program $250 Eastern Mountains Young Life $250 DTEMS-PTO $250 CVVFD Auxiliary Power $250 Tucker County Youth Softball $250 Deerfield 74 - Zabriskie Fund for CVVFD $250 Alpine Heritage Preservation / Artspring $250 WV Highlands Artisans Group $250 Canaan Valley Ski Patrol $250 North Fork Watershed Project $250 OES Walter Allstars $250 Davis Renaissance Team $250 Davis/Thomas Little League Baseball $250 Billie G. Armstrong $250 Cortland Challengers RANDOLPH COUNTY COMMISSION BEST EFFORT AWARD 1 $1,000 Russell Memorial Public Library / Mill Creek2 $1,000 Pioneer Memorial Public Library3 $750 Knights of Columbus Council #6034 $750 Literacy Volunteers of Randolph County5 $750 Children’s Advocacy Center6 $250 Cub Scout Pack 888 $250 Homestead PTA POCAHONTAS COUNTY COMMISSION AWARD BEST EFFORT 1 $1,250 Challenged Athletes of WV2 $1,000 Pocahontas County Senior Citizens3 $750 Linwood Lizards BARBOUR COUNTY COMMISSION AWARD BEST EFFORT 1 $1,000 Belington Public Library Bookaneers2 $900 Philippi Public Library Bookworms3 $750 American Legion Post 96 & Auxiliary4 $500 Barbour County Team Health5 $350 Kasson Elementary Middle School PTO BARBOUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION AWARD(MOST $$ RAISED) 1 $500 Philippi Public Library Bookworms2 $400 Belington Public Library Bookaneers3 $300 American Legion Post 96 & Auxiliary4 $200 Barbour County Team Health5 $100 Kasson Elementary Middle School PTO PREMIER BANK BARBOUR COUNTY TEAM AWARD $50 American Legion Post 96 & Auxiliary $50 Barbour County Team Health $50 Kasson Elementary Middle School PTO $50 Philippi Public Library Bookworms $50 Belington Public Library Bookaneers

PRESTON COUNTY COMMISSION AWARD $750 Friends of the Cheat $500 After School Explorers - Preston County $250 Aurora School PTO $250 Aurora Mountain Lions Club $250 Aurora Area Historical Society $250 Preston County Humane Society $200 Wades World of Wonder $200 Aurora Project $200 Kingwood Elementary School Stags $100 Preston Mat Club $100 Preston Community Fund Runners GARRETT COUNTY COMMISSION AWARDS $500 Kalie’s Crew $300 Oakland Rotary Satellite $200 Garrett Trails MCDONOUGH FOUNDATION AWARDS $1,000 Cub Scout Pack 88 $1,000 Wades World of Wonder $1,000 After School Explorers - Preston County $1,000 Pocahontas County Senior Citizens $1,000 Tucker County Emergency Medical Services $1,000 WV Gold Star Mothers $500 Citizens Bank of WV $500 Mountaintop Public Library / Thomas $500 Billie G. Armstrong $500 OES Walter Allstars $500 Mountain Laurel Learning Cooperative $500 Cortland Challengers $500 Deerfield 74 - Zabriskie Fund for CVVFD $500 Team Boulder Park $500 Eastern Mountains Young Life $500 Canaan Valley Ski Patrol $500 CVVFD Auxiliary Power $500 Five Rivers Public Library $500 EB3 $500 Knights of Columbus Council #603 $500 Pioneer Memorial Public Library Fund $500 Rowdy Readers $500 Homestead PTA $500 Literacy Volunteers of Randolph County $500 Aurora School PTO $500 Aurora Mountain Lions Club $500 Kingwood Elementary School Stags $500 WV Trout Unlimited $500 Preston Community Fund Runners $500 Linwood Lizards $500 Challenged Athletes of WV $500 Kasson Elementary Middle School PTO $500 Barbour County Team Health $500 American Legion Post 96 & Auxiliary $500 Belington Public Library Bookaneers $500 Philippi Public Library Bookworms $250 Highlands Trail Foundation $250 Fresh Canvas $250 New Historic Thomas $250 Cruisin’ Critters $250 Friends of Tucker County Animal Shelter $250 WV Highlands Artisans Group $250 North Fork Watershed Project $250 PRO-ON Trac $250 DTEMS-PTO $250 Alpine Heritage Preservation / Artspring $250 Davis Renaissance Team $250 Heart of the Highlands Trail System $250 ArtsBank Art Educators $250 Friends of the Cheat $250 Aurora Project $250 Preston County Humane Society TCF HONORARIUM $300 Davis Volunteer Fire Department $300 West Virginia Mountain Trail Runners $87,300 TOTAL AWARDS

Run For It team awards

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CAUSE PARTICIPANTS TEAM TOTALS Mountaintop Public Library 64 $27,913Tucker Boulder Park Project 47 $19,494Friends of the Cheat 22 $16,152Challenged Athletes of West Virginia 18 $10,965Team Hannah 63 $10,940Philippi Public Library 26 $10,040Heart of the Highlands Trail System 24 $9,750Russell Memorial Public Library 7 $9,673Belington Public Library 29 $9,158Garrett Dutch Easton Fund 45 $7,500Mountain Laurel Learning Cooperative 59 $7,065Riverfront Ramblers 3 $5,025Kalie’s Crew 66 $4,867Belington American Legion 26 $4,730Pioneer Public Memorial Library 14 $4,550Five Rivers Public Library 8 $4,105Pocahontas County Senior Citizens 20 $4,093New Historic Thomas 17 $3,570Barbour County Team Health 8 $3,480Ellis Boury III Fund 27 $3,435Friends of the Tucker County Animal Shelter 20 $3,089Eastern Mountains Young Life 23 $2,595After School Explorers - Preston County 5 $2,555CVVFD Auxiliary Power 40 $2,525Tucker County EMS Fund 23 $2,364Literacy Volunteers of Randolph County 8 $2,290WV Gold Star Mothers 21 $1,989Wades World of Wonder WOW Playground 5 $1,925WV Mountain Ministries 59 $1,925PRO ON TRAC 8 $1,790WV Trout Unlimited 12 $1,760Knights of Columbus Council #603 23 $1,675Child Advocacy Center 38 $1,540Aurora Mountain Lions 7 $1,405Cub Scout - Pack 88 6 $1,405Kingwood Elementary School Stags 11 $1,368Zabriskie Fund for CVVFD 7 $1,335Cruisin’ Critters - Mountaineer Humane Society 15 $1,330Linwood Lizards 7 $1,285Aurora School PTO 27 $1,270Aurora Area Historical Society 17 $1,202Billie Armstrong Fund 2 $1,160Preston County Humane Society 10 $1,115Kasson Eagles - Kasson School 17 $1,095North Fork Watershed Project 10 $1,050Canaan Valley Ski Patrol 12 $1,035Preston Community Fund Runners 7 $1,035Alpine Heritage Preservation / Artspring 13 $975Homestead PTA 19 $945Cortland Challengers 7 $905Highlands Trail Foundation 6 $890Aurora Project 7 $855DTEMS-PTO 35 $840OES Walter Allstars 7 $835WV Highlands Artisans Group 7 $819Tucker County Youth Softball 23 $750Oakland Rotary Satellite 11 $655Davis Renaissance Team 10 $650Directors’ General Fund 36 $630Garrett Trails 19 $595Oak Dale Church 25 $595Rowlesburg Revitalization Corp (RRC) 7 $502ArtsBank Art Educators 4 $420Davis/Thomas Little League Baseball 6 $380Preston Mat Club 10 $375Team Kendall 1 $305Davis Volunteer Fire Department $300West Virginia Mountain Trail Runners $300Tucker County Space & Technology Day 2 $110Jim & Louise Cooper Family Fund 1 $105Aurora Cross Country 1 $5

TOTALS 1290 $235,356

Distributions $25,000 Bernard McDonough Foundation $11,300 TCF Unrestricted Funds $5,600 St. George Medical Clinic $5,000 Tucker County Commission $5,000 Randolph County Commission $3,500 Barbour County Commission $3,000 Preston County Commission $3,000 Pocahontas County Commission $2,500 Dominion Foundation $2,000 Mettiki Coal WV, LLC $1,500 Anonymous Donor $1,500 Barbour County Community Foundation $1,100 Cortland Acres & Rehab $1,000 Garrett County Commission $1,000 Run Jeb, Run $1,000 Citizens Bank of West Virginia $1,000 First Energy Foundation $1,000 Grant County Bank $1,000 Canaan Valley Resort $1,000 Govcon Accountants $600 Davis Health System $500 Q & A Associates $500 Kingsford Manufacturing $500 Dave & Edi Vernon $500 United Financial Center $500 Wesbanco $300 Stumptown Ales $300 Best of Canaan $250 Preston-Taylor Health Services $250 Edward Jones Investments, Chris Fry $250 Mountain Valley Bank $250 Community Care Pharmacy $250 State Farm, Bob Gutshall $250 Performance Motors $250 Premier Bank $250 GJ Garton Insurance $250 Diane & Ronnie Beall $250 First United Bank & Trust $250 Chris & Hilary Boyce $200 Miners & Merchants Bank $200 Team One Chevrolet-Buick-GMC $200 Canaan Valley Lawn & Landscape $200 Davis Dental $200 Blackwater Bikes $200 Monongalia General Hospital $200 John & Debbie Brown $150 Nationwide Insurance, David Hansford $100 Picket Patch $100 Hellbender Burritos $100 Crimson Shamrock Alpacas $100 Ray LaMora $100 Filler Construction $100 West Virginia Paving $100 Hinkle Funeral Home $100 Hinchcliff $100 Davis Trust $100 McClain Printing Company $100 Green Rivers $100 Richard Hanlon $100 Landis Realty $100 Cooper & Preston $100 White Grass $100 Big John’s Family Fixin’s $100 Mountaintop Realty $100 Blackbear Woods $100 Scott & Nypl CPAs $100 Sirianni’s Pizza Cafe $100 Ski Barn $100 Preston County Inn $100 In Memory of LaVerna White

$87,300 TOTAL RACE SPONSOR CONTRIBUTIONS

Race SponsorsIN KINDPete JohnsonWhite Grass CafeEast West PrintingFrontierCortland Acres & RehabHinkle Funeral Home

ADVERTISING SPONSORS Tucker County Convention & Visitors BureauTucker County Alpine Festival, Inc.

SUPPORT SERVICESTown of DavisWV Department of HighwaysTucker County EMSTucker County E-911WV State PoliceTucker County Sheriff DepartmentOffice of Emergency ManagementDan LehmannTucker County Convention & Visitors BureauCanaan Valley Ski Patrol

Local Assistance

Special thanks to the White Grass Cafe crew for 10 years running the hospitality table: awesome food, friendly people, and free!

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Inside OutsiderWhere you from, boy?

I don’t know. I’m not from here and probably won’t ever be. But I like it here. I see what you have. I see what you are and where you’ve come and gone. You’ve worn a path through these floorboards, smoothed over the years into a serpentine path. You’ve left an impres- sion of how you live on this wood, on these woods. There are stumps newly rotten that were once saplings lusting for the heavy rains. We all leave traces and trails, shaping our place just as it shapes us. Where are you from, sir?

I’m from here.

I am an outsider. I can see in there. But from here there looks different than it does from in there.

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“A sign of an intelligent tinkerer is to keep all the parts.” Mike Powell riffing on Aldo Leopold

I am driving around with Mike Powell, a land steward for the Nature Conservancy. I asked him to give me a tour of the shining example of natural resilience: Smoke Hole. Resilience is a concept in conservation that, as I understand it, says that the areas of nature that will adapt to the changing environment are those who have certain diversity in topography, geology, weather already.

“It’s kind of a bummer when you’re out hiking up a mountain and your phone dings.”

Smoke Hole is a perhaps one of the most resilient places in the Eastern US, if not the continent, because it has extremes of all of those criteria. And it connects those extremes. If species need to migrate to cope with changes in temperature, sun, precipitation, and so on...they can. They can go upslope, downslope, favor wetter or drier regions. Kinda like good situations for people, they aren’t trapped. The landscape allows them opportunities to adapt. In climate change, you’ll lose some species, but if you have these regions of resilience they’ll find a place to have a stronghold.

Conservation is a polarizing topic. But in an export state like West Virginia, it can be a tough sell to protect rather than extract. There are those who strive to protect and convince others to protect these places for nature’s sake. But as Powell says, “the species that’s going to feel the effect of climate change the most is human.” And really a more persuasive argument is that “I want my kids to be able to see the same flower or animal that I did when I grew up.” It’s sharing, not blocking.

“There are no silver bullets in conservation. It is in large part a game of compromise. Nature’s pretty resilient, man. You look at these places that, well, we’ve messed up a lotta things. But nature can still thrive if we work together.”

Powell is charge of a field crew here. Paul Schmidt, along with Owen Peet and Angela Burdell are out here on the

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cliffed winds, limestone barrens overlooking the Big Bend of the South Branch of the Potomac treating invasive species. Just a few scraggly white cedars, several hundred years old, tolerate the hot harsh environment. A bald eagle soars up the ridge. It is tender work. They spray an herbicide on sponges and stroke the spotted knapweed. They are killing these plants very gently. If they get too rough, the roots will sever and the plants will persist. Invasive weeds are persistent. Endangered species, maybe not so much, but they were here first. Hmm. It’s hard not to extrapolate into native human populations. What or who do we protect? And, more importantly, who makes the call? That is where the power lies.

So at least for the moment spotted knapweed, viper’s bugloss, and common mullein are the bad guys. The endangered ones, at least very rare for this area are: Kate’s Mountain Clover. there’s another one that kinda looks like bundles of green toothpicks, but I can’t remember what that one is. It kinda looks like that other low pokey thing, but that isn’t it.

There is a list of endangered species somewhere in Washington DC. At least I assume there is. I have heard about this list. It struck me though walking along Cave Mountain with the TNC crew, we are out here in nature. There are no manmade placards telling me what is endangered, where do I step, where don’t I. So I ask Paul Schmidt if this place is special. Are we walking on hallowed grounds as the grasshoppers ratchet around. Endangered species is an academic concept. So yeah, is this place special without the labels and politics?

“Yeah. It’s definitely worth preserving even if it didn’t have endangered species,” Schmidt says. “It’s such a unique place. It feels special.”

I feel it too. There’s a fire ring just set back from the cliff edge. This is public land, but access is limited by the desire to hump up the ridge from the river. And I can imagine camping here in the fall with friends. You can come too if you don’t mind the walk.

Pull up a chair, friend. Go out and sit on the edge of the world and take in the view.

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“You know what’s sad, Duke. I used to think about old people and now I am the old people.” Ralph Sites

“They is a lot of stories in a barber shop –– just don’t know if any of them are true” Duke Nelson

This county is full of Sites. Plenty of Siteses in Grant County, More than you can shake a stick at. They used to say in Buckhannon there were more Hinkles than sagebrush. There are a lot of Hinkles here too: Hinkle Hollow. Sites Hollow. “Oh yeah. Everyone’s related.”

“When we was young you run around and everybody knew you. You didn’t do anything bad cuz they knew your parents. They’d tell your parents. That time is gone anymore.”

A quick trim

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2016 Annual Report - County

2016

Tucker PrestonRandolphBarbourPocahontasGarrettGrantMineral

Run For It Teams

2911853310

Run For It SupportCounty Commission

$5,000 $3,000 $5,000 $3,500 $3,000 $1,000 $- $-

Run For ItDistributions

$127,777 $29,675 $23,388 $28,502 $16,353 $6,117 $595 $-

Geographically RestrictedEndowments

6411831241

Community FundYear End Value

$17,340 $15,195 $10,850 NA NA NA NA NA

Bucket ListSometimes you need a ladder. But then you gotta move it all around the pool to change the lightbulbs. Introducing the front-end loader! I mean, it’s like a ladder on wheels, with a motor and it goes wherever a ladder can go. It’s good for changing lights. That’s Shane Redmond standing in the bucket, “Everybody calls me Train.”

Communities thrive that help themselves. They do it anyway they can, often with more scrap and mettle than any aca-demic solution. Tucker Community Foundation aims to help communities thrive. The Foundation serves up philanthropy with a twist by being flexible and innovative in helping people support their passion projects.

One keen example is the Run For It event that happens every September. Any community cause from our service area can form a team. The team then raises their own sponsors as they build to compete for race awards, not just for speed, but also for community spirit and fundraising efforts.

Take a gander at the table to see which communities have best capitalized on the event in 2016. Not seeing much from your county? There’s always room to join in. You can make an impact.

Of the eight counties we serve, three of them have endowed Community Funds. Randolph County Rotarians came together at the very end of 2016 to endow their community fund. These funds, once established, will payout grants to applicants within that specific county. Don’t see your county listed there? Get in touch. Whether you need a new backhoe or computers for your library, we’ll do what we can to accomplish your bucket list.

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Scholarships

Kaylee Nedrow – Winner of the largest scholarship of 2016

Scholarships are one significant way that the Tucker Community Foundation invests in our community. Students are the future and they may apply from anywhere in the eight county service area. Most scholarships are supplemented with unrestricted funds.

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Kaylee Nedrow$8,000 P.L. & Elizabeth Cook Milkint ScholarshipTucker

Kayla Ringer$2,500 Preston High School American Legion Scholarship Preston

Sarah Stone$2,000 Preston High School American Legion Scholarship Preston

Zoe Sypolt$3,600 Rebecca Ann Chenoweth Memorial ScholarshipTucker

Sarah Davis$2,800 H. Max Price ScholarshipTucker

Leslie Nestor$2,000 Parsons High School Alumni ScholarshipTucker

Michael Hanlin$1,800 Dr. Mary Alice Klein ScholarshipGrant

Alexis Roth$1,750 Harry & Elizabeth Boyce ScholarshipTucker

Katelyn Gnegy$1,750 Joyce Colbert Veterinary ScholarshipGarrett

Mitchell Mason$1,600 Michael Shahan ScholarshipTucker

Melissa Carr$1,500 Crimson Shamrock ScholarshipTucker

Steven Sponaugle$1,400 Enos, Delbert H. & Shirley W. Carr ScholarshipTucker

Lindsey Knotts$1,300 Davis Fraternal Order of Eagles ScholarshipTucker

Jonna Burnside$1,100 Orr Family ScholarshipTucker

Mikayla Long$1,100 Doug & Betty Preble ScholarshipTucker

Nathaniel Evans$1,100 Kline, Allison, Evans ScholarshipGrant

Emilea Warnick$1,000 Knights of Pythias #32 ScholarshipPreston

Angela Bohon$900 Margaret Ann & James A. Grafton ScholarshipTucker

Christopher Purnell$900 W. Denzel & Ernestine A. Kee ScholarshipTucker

Emily Siler$800 Robert W. Minear, Jr. Memorial ScholarshipTucker

Shane Bodkin$800 Bradley J. Ramsey ScholarshipTucker

Matthew Rao$750 Joseph R. Steffl ScholarshipPocahontas

David Ratzer$750 Joseph R. Steffl ScholarshipRandolph

Lydia Mullenax$700 Herbert W. Clarkson ScholarshipTucker

Marcus Mason$700 Herbert W. Clarkson ScholarshipTucker

Scottie Bowley$600 Martha C. Sponaugle ScholarshipTucker

Bethany Barwinczak$600 Jillian Roberts & Matilde Villalobos Millenium ScholarshipTucker

Jenna White$600 Harold W. & Ruth F. Shaffer ScholarshipTucker

Zachary Bishoff$600 Harold W. & Ruth F. Shaffer ScholarshipTucker

Michael Adkins$500 Walter & Mary Shaffer Helmick ScholarshipTucker

Zoe Sypolt$500 George W. & Marjorie H. Walburn Memorial ScholarshipTucker

Miranda Siler$500 Forrest G. Clark ScholarshipTucker

Catherine Van Meter$500 Madeline R. & Lester E. Miller ScholarshipGrant

Rebecca Siler$300 Gary E. Wilson ScholarshipTucker

Elva Bible$300 Gary E. Wilson ScholarshipTucker

Taylor Ambrose$2,000 Kep & Alice Smith ScholarshipTucker

Morgan Moss$2,000 Kep & Alice Smith ScholarshipTucker

Emily White$2,000 Kep & Alice Smith ScholarshipTucker

Daniele Wilfong$2,000 Kep & Alice Smith ScholarshipTucker

Amber Rodeheaver$550 TCF General ScholarshipPreston

Emma McClelland$500 TCF General ScholarshipPreston

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New Endowments

HARSH CEMETERY FUND*CemeteryPreservation;TuckerCounty

For the maintenance, upkeep, and beautification of the Harsh Cemetery located 4 miles past the Union Chapel Church on Clover Run Road in Tucker County, the fund was created by Leeorr Rosier (1925-2015) who along with her husband Stearl, owned and operated the Rosier’s Polled Hereford Farm for many years.

*Seed fund: donor has made initial deposit. Upon reaching the minimum fund requirement, the endowment is fulfilled and the fund begins producing annual awards for distribution as intended.

RANDY POOLE MEMORIAL FUNDFieldofInterest;TuckerCounty

Provides funding for emergency medical training for Tucker County. The fund was established with memorial donations from Timberline Ski Patrol, friends and family. A member of the National Ski Patrol since 1992, Randy was well known and loved at Timberline Ski Resort where he patrolled from 1997 until his untimely death in 2009.

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ARTS

Fred T. Busk FundTucker County High SchoolArt ProgramTucker $1,000

Carl DelSignore FundArtSpringContract StaffingTucker$265

Tucker County High SchoolTheater Sets and MaterialsTucker$500

Tucker Valley Elementary Middle School Theater MaterialsTucker$400

Tucker County High SchoolArt ProgramTucker $935

Garrett James “Dutch” Easton FundTucker County High SchoolArt ProgramTucker$3,065

CHURCH FUNDS

Denver & Ethel Raines Smith Memorial FundSt. Paul’s United Methodist ChurchTucker$2,000

Nan Parsons Presbyterian Church FundParsons Presbyterian ChurchTucker$2,250

COMMUNITY BASED FUNDS Louise Harman FundFive Rivers LibraryPicture Book Shelving and PrinterTucker$1,600

William M. Harman Memorial FundDistributions determined by Parsons City Council

$165,000 Parsons Park Board $85,000 Five Rivers Public Library $645,000 Citizens of Parsons $206,700 Splash Park $38,000 Sewer Department/Stormwater $15,000 Telemetery Installation $46,000 Water Department $86,000 Street & Sidewalk Improvements $25,000 Fleet Equipment Replacement $7,000 Vehicle Payments $72,000 Parsons Police Department $10,000 PVFD Equipment Fund $8,000 All Veterans Memorial Wall repairs $64,000 McDonald Building Renovations $15,000 Fairs & Festivals $52,300 Contingency Fund $895,000 TOTAL

Sarah Thompson Kaemmerling FundDavis Volunteer Fire DepartmentRescue EquipmentTucker$800

New Historic ThomasPlanning for Bridge for walking trailsTucker$1,550

Challenged Athletes of West VirginiaCanaan Valley$1,495

ArtSpringContract StaffingTucker$3,885

DONOR ADVISED George & Mariwyn Smith Fund Canaan Valley InstituteSpace & Technology DayTucker$500

Tucker County 4-H Leaders4-H CampTucker$500

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Terra Alta Economic DevelopmentCorporation FundCentury Transportation MuseumEvent CenterPreston$2,800 EDUCATION John P. & Sarah Catherine Swartz FundTucker Valley Elementary Middle SchoolTheater EventsTucker$650

Margaret Kump Roberts FundKump Education CenterOperationsRandolph$1,300

Dehari FundTCHS Science DeptClassroom MaterialsTucker$3,000

Canaan Valley InstituteSpace and Technology DayTucker$2,510

US Army JROTC FundPreston High SchoolJROTC ProgramPreston$1,000

Grants

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EMERGENCY SERVICES Donaldson - Corey FundCanaan Valley Fire DepartmentMedical SuppliesTucker$700

Capt. Karl Patrik Youngblood Memorial FundTucker County Ambulance AuthorityTraining$750

James D. Jordan FundCanaan Valley Fire DepartmentMedical SuppliesTucker$300

Harman EMSEMS OperationsRandolph$300 GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES Louise & Jim Cooper, Jr. Family FundBlackwater Ministerial AssociationFood Pantry and Clothes ClosetTucker$1,100

John, Kathleen & Sharon Syrian /Donald T. Goss FundDavis Renaissance GroupPublic Ash Containers for StreetsTucker$400

Knights of ColumbusOperationsTucker$350

Woody F. Nestor Memorial FundParsons Ministerial AssociationAssistance ProgramTucker$800

Thompson Family FundBlackwater Ministerial AssociationFood Pantry and Clothes ClosetTucker$900

Philip Warken FundBlackwater MinisterialAssociationFood Pantry and Clothes ClosetTucker$3,000

Foundation of Mon GeneralHealth FairService Area$3,000

Parsons Ministerial AssociationPublic Assistance ProgramTucker$3,700

Tucker County Family Resource Network Backpack BuddiesTucker$4,000

North Central WV Community ActionEmergency Assistance ProgramTucker$5,000

First United Methodist ChurchHelping Hand Food PantryTucker$8,000

HEALTH Harold W. & Ruth F. ShafferMountain Hospice FundMountain HospiceRegional$3,000

Billie G. Armstrong FundCentral WV Pregnancy Care CenterBaby Safe Sleep ProgramTucker$1,200

HISTORIC PRESERVATION McNeeley Cemetery FundTucker County Historical SocietyCemetery UpkeepTucker$2,400

Davis Cemetery FundTown of DavisCemetery UpkeepTucker$3,100

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Utterback Family FundAlpine Historical PreservationOpera House UpkeepTucker$300

Holly Meadows - Long Family Cemetery FundTucker County Historical SocietyCemetery UpkeepTucker$500

Mt. Hebron Cemetery FundMt. Hebron Cemetery GroupCemetery UpkeepTucker$900 LIBRARIES & LITERACY PROGRAMS McClain FundFive Rivers Public LibraryPicture Book Shelving and PrinterTucker$800

John Pill/Mountaintop Library FundMountaintop Public LibraryLibrary OperationsTucker$1,700

Pioneer Memorial Public Library FundPioneer Memorial LibraryLibrary OperationsRandolph$1,700

Crimson Shamrock Literacy FundPreston County Caring CouncilBooks For ChildernPreston$500

Aurora SchoolBook Award ProgramPreston$1,000

Mountaintop Library New Building FundMountaintop Public LibraryPublic Library Building ProjectTucker$7,800

PARKS & RECREATION Rubenstein/Schilansky FundDavis Volunteer Fire Dept.Tables and Chairs for Event CenterTucker$150

Rubenstein/Schilansky FundArtSpringContracted Staffing Tucker$350

National Bank of Davis FundDavis Volunteer Fire Dept.Tables and Chairs for Event CenterTucker$350 TCF OPERATIONS Old Ridge Runner FundTucker Community FoundationOperationsService Area$700 YOUTH Elliott Kepler & Alice Mae Degler Smith FundTucker County 4-H Leaders4-H CampTucker$350

Thomas P. Patrick, DDS FundCamp MahonegonTucker$4,400

Falling Green FundTucker County 4-HJETS Equestrian ProgramTucker$3,300

Tucker County 4-H Leaders4-H Camp CostsTucker$3,400

P.J. Zickefoose FundTucker County Outdoor ClubSki ProgramTucker$500

Parsons Kiwanis Club/J. Kenton Lambert FundParsons Kiwanis ClubOperationsTucker$9,600 UNRESTRICTED Robert W. & Sarah M. Minear FundAppalachian Wounded WarriorsVeterans AssistanceTucker$500

Tucker County Ambulance AuthorityEMS EquipmentTucker $200

Mountain Valley Bank, NA FundTucker County Ambulance AuthorityEMS EquipmentTucker$350

Citizens Bank of West Virginia FundTucker County Ambulance AuthorityEMS EquipmentTucker$350

Directors’ General FundTucker Boulder ParkTucker$3,030

Barbour County Tactical Search And Recovery Emergency EquipmentBarbour$470

H. Dailey & Belva Shaffer Martin FundGarrett Community CollegeNeedy Student SupportTucker$470

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Donor List ANIMAL WELFARE $11,057 Mountaineer Humane Society Fund

AREA $15,195 Preston Community Fund Arvin Harsh Craig Roscoe David Moran and Lori Wall Preston Community Fund Runners team members Sue Corbin Susan Hollier

ARTS $10,875 ArtsBank Fund ArtsBank team members Floors & More 4 Less

$44,826 Carl DelSignore Fund $11,183 Fred T. Busk Fund $64,407 GarrettJames“Dutch”EastonFund Cleta Long’s HistoryofTuckerCounty book proceeds GarrettJames“Dutch”EastonFund Fresh Canvas team members Adam Smith Glenda&JohnEaston JanisRiemenschneider JohnGerwig Kimberly Hinckley Kyle Conroy Laura Todd Linda Halliday Lucy and Bill Humbert NancySweigart Pat and Kim Conroy ThomasBarychewsky

$11,907 WVHighlandsSTArtFund WV Highlands team members Gerri & Bruce Wilson JamesDixon JohnRosineandClaireCassidy MattandEmilyWilson-Hauger TitiandJohnFerguson

CHURCH FUNDS $13,437 Denver&EthelRainesSmith Memorial Fund St. Paul’s United Methodist Church

$7,721 NanParsonsPresbyterianChurchFund $6,875 Richard&MaryJ.RainesHarrFund$139,808 ValentineFamilyFund

COMMUNITY BASED FUNDS $34,865 Louise Harman Fund$159,808 SarahThompsonKaemmerlingFund $7,753 Taylor Beall & Snyder Family Fund TeamAuxiliaryPowerteammembers&sponsors Amy & Sam Goughnour Andrea & Bruce Dalton Diane & Ronnie Beall JaniceYoungblood Karen and Bill Peterson Mary Huegel Veronica Staron

DONOR ADVISED$112,899 Albert&FrancesKerzicMemorialFund $21,516 BucherFamilyFund$23,317 George&MariwynSmithFund $29,338 RyanPatrickGosaFund Alexandria&BradleyBoyer Alliene Liden AndreaandJakeGosa David & Brenda Hall Diane&ScottHinkle Jake&PatGosa KennethandElizabethO’Barr MaudiaProffitt Robert and Sandra Hughes Sarah Musallam JessicaMusallum

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT $17,875 Terra Alta Fund$17,340 TuckerCountyEconomic&Community DevelopmentFund Anonymous donor Glenda and Walter Marshall United Financial Center

EDUCATION $12,774 AfterSchoolExplorersFund AfterSchoolExplorersteammembers&sponsors AfterSchoolExplorers Angela Cole AnnetteSantilli Anonymous donor Brent Hauser CassandraHowell ChristineKohlmeyer Concepcion Perea David Haney Donna McCauley FellowsvilleElementarySchool Francis Livengood GregEverly Lamonica Titchnell LauraBennett Lori Hamilton Melanie Teets Melissa Skiles Michele McCrobie Nicole Tennant Paula Kelly Rebecca Forman Rodney Parker RogerandLynGoodwin Sarah Gooding SharonEly Sophia Tichenor Susie Huggins TracyandBonnieShaffer Tracy Whetsell Vanessa Hayes WoodrowTurner

$130,333 DehariFund Anonymous donors (2)

$14,321 EllisBouryIIIFund EB3teammembers Bink Boury and Rebecca Hess BradMooreandJeanneBoury Chris,Marci,Andrew,Alex,&Brayden Heather Sharma Kathleen Hess Kimberly Fortney Margaret Hess MichaelFrasherandJanisBoury Michael Hess Sarah Hunt

$3,127 KingwoodElementarySchoolFund BigOakResidentialRental DonettaBrowning KingwoodStagsteammembers&sponsors Miscellaneous donors Pete Pell Robert Burton SandersOrthodontics

$16,402 George W. & Marjorie H. Walburn Memorial Fund $6,955 JohnP.&SarahCatherineSwartzFund $27,208 MargaretKumpRobertsFund$21,841 USArmyJROTCFund

EMERGENCY SERVICES

$8,031 Capt.KarlPatrikYoungblood Memorial Fund $15,048 Donaldson - Corey Fund$14,201 JamesD.JordanFund

$63,182 KatherineZabriskieCanaanValley FireDepartmentFund Deerfield74teammembers MaryJordan Ron Ulle and Anne Cecilia Smith

$61,200 KatherineZabriskieEMSFund $10,102 RandyPooleMemorialFund Bob and Barbara Foster Timberline Ski Patrol

$22,119 ShafferParsonsVFDFund$16,922 TuckerCountyEMSFund Govcon team members & sponsors Anonymous donor ChristinePlaugher D.M.Britton Govcon Accountants HubertandInezDreckman LowellMoore Nevaeh Burdock Sharon Moats Virginia Roth

GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES $7,538 John,Kathleen&SharonSyrian/ Donald T. Goss Fund$25,218 Louise&JimCooper,Jr.FamilyFund Carol Stark DianeandScottHinkle Michael&SusanWingfield Run For It proceeds

$550,695 PhilipWarkenFund$19,483 ThompsonFamilyFund $18,310 Woody F. Nestor Memorial Fund St. George United Methodist Women

HEALTH $27,149 Billie G. Armstrong Fund Billie G. Armstrong team members JudyandMartyBeichner ThomasandJulieKucer

$15,289 CortlandAcresAssociationFund $36,408 Davis Family Fund of DHSF$213,075 DavisHealthSystemFoundationFund$35,790 HaroldW.&RuthF.Shaffer MountainHospiceFund

HISTORIC PRESERVATION $9,470 Bright’sChapelCemeteryFund $8,931 BuenaChapelCemeteryFund Lana Landry

$64,115 Davis Cemetery Fund Buddy Harmon Margaret Siembieda

$2,101 HarshCemeteryFund $12,299 Holly Meadows - Long Family Cemetery Fund $8,833 Leadmine Cemetery Fund Alston Helmick

$59,177 McNeeley Cemetery Fund TheEstateofGroverHott TheEstateofSharonHott

$10,601 MindyPierceHistoricPreservationFund $20,286 Mt Hebron Cemetery Fund $20,000 Tucker County Veterans Memorial Fund Buddy Harmon JaneandMarvinParsons TuckerCountyVeteransAssociation

$6,843 UtterbackFamilyFund

Endowed Funds listed by area of interest along with their donors and year-end value.

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LIBRARIES & LITERACY PROGRAMS $24,344 Belington Public Library Fund Belington Public Library

$21,939 CrimsonShamrockLiteracyFund David Moran and Lori Wall

$11,080 JohnPill/MountaintopLibraryFund $17,302 McClain Fund$155,003 MountaintopPublicLibrary New Building Fund Mountaintop Readers team members & sponsors Andrea and Bruce Dalton Ann Miles AnneFarmerandPatrick,AdelaideandSawyerMcCann Anonymous donor Catherine White ChrisElfring Col (R) Dick and Nancy Smith Debbie and Darrell Rolston DeborahLawson Donna Dockery and Brenda Thornton FriendsoftheMountaintopPublicLibrary Glenda and Walter Marshall Grant County Bank JamesLemon JaneBrowningandDougHockom JanePayette JeannetteSmith JohnandHollyPlunkett JohnRosineandClaireCassidy Karen and Bill Peterson Karin and Phillip Nelson KeithStrausbaughandIvonneMartinez Linda Nelson Mark and Clare Anderson MaryFrancesEvans Mary Salovaara NancyZizunas PatriciaLawson RachelleDavis&JimBaczuk RebeccaWertime Robert,Alexis,AshleighandLindaEvers Sandy Rodgers Sarah Fletcher Shannon McCann and Rob and Delaney Stull SueHaywood Susan and Doran Smith Susan Meyer

$36,187 Pioneer Memorial Public Library Fund

OPERATIONS $15,612 OldRidgeRunnerFund Herman Hebb’s TheOldRidgeRunner book proceeds

PARKS AND RECREATION

$12,413 C. W. Pell Fund $7,256 NationalBankofDavisFund $10,576 Rubenstein/SchilanskyFund

SCHOLARSHIP

$18,489 BradleyJRamseyScholarshipFund BryanMotzel Laura Callihan ShannonJock

$40,287 CrimsonShamrockScholarshipFund David Moran and Lori Wall

$23,897 Doug&BettyPrebleScholarshipFund$39,031 Dr.MaryAliceKleinScholarshipFund FrankJosephandShirleyPerozziello JenniferKlein

$29,094 Enos,DelbertH.&ShirleyW.Carr ScholarshipFund $8,434 ForrestG.ClarkScholarshipFund$28,582 FraternalOrderofEagles ScholarshipFund$12,650 GaryE.WilsonScholarshipFund MarieAnnGrafton

$58,560 H.MaxPriceScholarshipFund$25,969 HaroldW.&RuthF.Shaffer ScholarshipFund

$36,227 Harry&ElizabethBoyce ScholarshipFund ElizabethBoyce

$28,920 HerbertW.ClarksonScholarshipFund$13,851 JillianRoberts&MatildeVillalobos MillenniumScholarshipFund $32,176 JosephR.StefflScholarshipFund JuliaSteffl

$37,173 JoyceColbertVeterinary ScholarshipFund JeanColbert

$23,114 Kline,Allison,EvansScholarshipFund$21,402 KnightsofPythiasBrown Lodge#32Scholarship$37,370 Lindsey&AddieReedScholarshipFund $7,243 MadelineR.&LesterE.Miller ScholarshipFund$19,610 MargaretAnn&JamesA.Grafton ScholarshipFund JamesGrafton Kimberly and Ricky Lanham MarieAnnGrafton MichaelandKristinaWamsley

$10,176 MarkHutchison/DavidCosner ScholarshipFund MarkandCarlaJoseph Nancy and David Fahey Tim and Leesa Harris

$15,022 MarthaC.SponaugleScholarshipFund Bud&LouettaSponaugle

$33,949 MichaelShahanScholarshipFund$24,198 OrrFamilyScholarshipFund$165,731 P.L.&ElizabethCookMilkint ScholarshipFund$50,703 ParsonsHighSchoolAlumni ScholarshipFund ParsonsHighSchoolClassof1956

$93,798 PHSAmericanLegionScholarshipFund $75,184 RebeccaAnnChenoweth MemorialScholarshipFund$16,754 RobertW.Minear,Jr.Memorial ScholarshipFund$19,607 W.Denzel&ErnestineA.Kee ScholarshipFund$10,966 Walter&MaryShafferHelmick ScholarshipFund Clara Dougherty David Stanton MaryEllenCousins

SENIOR CITIZENS

$12,117 GrantCountySeniorCitizenFund

UNRESTRICTED

$7,196 CitizensBankofWestVirginiaFund$10,415 H.Dailey&BelvaShafferMartinFund Nola DeVilder

$7,362 Mountain Valley Bank, NA Fund$16,240 RobertW.&SarahM.MinearFund$74,369 TCFDirectors’GeneralFund Directors’ General team members AnneFarmer&Patrick,Adelaide&SawyerMcCann BenjaminandL.E.Herrick JeffandSusanNelsen JoandDonGingras MelandJohnRichard Miscellaneous donors Paula Hallberg Philip Day Robert Snyder Terry Stone

$6,039 USBP Fund Uncle Sam’s Birthday Party proceeds

YOUTH $7,177 ElliottKepler&AliceMaeDegler SmithFund

$168,680 Falling Green Fund DianeandScottHinkle JaneRodrigueandMarkFord Paul Daugherty SandraFrank&MikePowell TheEstateofLaVernaWhite

$19,480 Ohio-WestVirginiaYouthLeadership AssociationFund$11,976 P.J.ZickefooseFund$48,547 ParsonsKiwanisClub/J.Kenton Lambert Fund$91,116 ThomasP.Patrick,DDSFund

FOUNDATION PROJECTS PotomacHighlandsFood&Farm Initiative Anonymous donor KeithStrausbaugh&IvonneMartinez MattAndersonandJuditHaverty RobertBirkenesandSuzannePolak

Tucker Boulder Park Project Team Boulder Park team members & sponsors A.L.L.Construction,Inc Anonymous donors Barb and Michael McInerney BenjaminandL.E.Herrick Cassandra Michaud Charlene Lang ChipChase&LaurieLittle DeborahMowe DianeandEdRader Diane and Roscoe Beall DianeandScottHinkle Drazen,Meekins,&CrothersfamilyLemonadeStand East-WestPrinting EmmaUjvagi&ShannonAnderson EricaKraemer Michael Kraemer FirstEnergyFoundation Gerri & Bruce Wilson Glenda & Walter Marshall Grant County Bank HeartoftheHighlands Hilary and Chris Boyce Hinkle Funeral Home ElaineMooreandDeborahMcHenry JasonSites JonathanHudson Karen Kane Katelyn McInerney Kathryn Robinson Kevin Moore Lemma McLean Lisa Stanley M&TBankCharitableFoundation MariwynSmith Mason&NatePowell Michael Broderick Miscellaneous donors Nevaeh Burdock OaklandFoundation Paula Flaherty Shannon McCann and Rob and Delaney Stull SitesLawFirm Tom Cecil ToniWitzemann TuckerCountyParks&Recreation West Virginia Paving White Grass

YouthPhilanthropyInitiative Nate&MasonPowell

PASS THROUGH DONATIONS BackpackBuddies Anonymous donor

DavisRiverfrontParkPlaygroundProject Heather Ramsey ShellOilemployeematchingprogram

HeartoftheHighlands Anonymous donor HansJurawitz

Jack&JeanSmithScholarship Pass-Through JeanandJackSmith

MarkHutchison/DavidCosner ScholarshipPass-Through Tim and Leesa Harris

MountaintopPublicLibrary Pass-Through JeanandJackSmith

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2016 Annual Report - Fishing

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2016 Annual Report - Quick Trim

It was about the time we were wrapping things up. Jerry Burke got up from his office chair to identify some fishing photos that were tugging on my heartstrings. “That’s the upper Missouri in Montana,” he was saying as his feet, better suited for waders than on land, caught the corner of a swivelling easy chair. As a professional, I caught Jerry as he tripped. As an amateur, I had my recorder resting on the top of the swivelling easy chair. It was dark out. It was dark in. The recorder fell off the chair, scattering across the floor.

He was just saying, “Oh I hope I didn’t mess anything up,” as I was picking the batteries up off the floor and thinking that I just lost the entire interview. And so he did and so I did and it was raining outside, the gloom broken handily by the excitement of my Dogma erupting out of the truck to say hi as I said goodbye.

Burke has a lot to say and he is eloquent, a reporter’s dream. He also is very interesting looking and has a great connection to the landscape of Spring Run, being its steward for the past 36 years.

The rain swelled the river. Too high for fishing. So I got no interview and I got no pictures. I scribbled down some timecodes for the non-existant interview and maybe, as I look through them now, I can recreate his eloquence as a speaker and philanthropist.

WaterwaysPap, the man says we got to go. Water’s gettin up there.

Eh boy, I was already here in ‘49 when the water was high. Didn’t even get to Hendrick’s store.

I got news for it. It’s already to Hendrick’s store.

GET MY RUBBERS, BOY! Carlin Ours, Flood of ‘85

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2016 Annual Report - Quick Trim

“Water,” he said, “is a most important resource. And it’s taken for granted. Water has run through a lotta my life.” Many of the rivers in West Virginia have suffered from acid mine drainage. They’ve been killed and revived to various levels. Limestone dosing neutralizes the acid and allows life to grow in waterways. But it’s like dialysis, he says: it doesn’t work forever. And we cannot very well replace the mines with new kidneys.

In my notes around 00:13:00 Jerry starts to get emotional. He is talking about Harrison Schoeb, a big rough guy, who formerly owned the Spring Run property over in Dorcas, WV. I pictured him as a terrifyingly bearded dude, a set of eyes behind a radiant tangle of whiskers. The picture of him was a bit tamer. He was brusque, stern, and warm hearted with a Smokey Bear hat. “If he needs to sell Spring Run, I get first chance.” Jerry speaks through a thin glaze of tears. “Schoeb died suddenly right at the end of 1980.” It was a very bittersweet thing for Burke, who somehow managed to scrap together the money to purchase Spring Run.

“Streams have a way of grabbing people. A stream that produces wild trout...is something special. Pretty unique in this part of the world.” Burke wanted to protect that special place to share.

Spring Run itself is a treasure. It’s the 2nd largest spring in West Virginia, a limestone one, with 56° water and perfect alkalinity for trout. That’s why the Petersburg fish hatchery is located there, upstream. It again is bittersweet now that Burke has sold the property to the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to steward into the future. “You get up to an age where you realize your mortality. It would hurt me to see Spring Run developed- commercialized. It ought to be available to people who are not people of means.”

“When you own a piece of property with a stream, people call it Burke’s stream. I never felt that.We owned a riparian land.We were caretakers – hoping to leave it better than we found it.”

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In MemoriamLaVerna Miller White 1925-2016

I mean, really. Laverna Miller White is Miss Diane Hinkle’s mother. And Miss Diane is the Development Director at TCF – responsible for a lot of the programs that you read about in this publication. We will miss LaVerna as one of the oldest participants at the Run For It. She was also one of the inspirations behind and a major donor to the Falling Green Fund. Since 1996, Falling Green has been supporting 4-H and Tucker County community based youth organizations.

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2016 Annual Report - North Fork

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Calendar

2017

June 30 Uncle Sam’s Birthday PartyAugust 1 Grant Applications AvailableSeptember 15 Grant Applications DueSeptember 23 Run For It

2018

February 1 Scholarship Applications AvailableApril 1 Run For It Campaign BeginsApril 6 Scholarship Applications Due

Financial Report

2016 2015 2014

REVENUE AND SUPPORT $ 698,929 882,272 627,051 Contributions 1,997,158 731,259 2,047,158 Investment Income 31,286 122,618 197,200 Grants Received 43,223 53,649 77,998 Other Revenue $2,770,596 1,789,798 2,949,407 Total Revenues

EXPENSES

$1,457,143 1,332,011 1,192,251 Grants & Scholarships 76,971 63,978 54,096 Investment Expenses 84,995 159,530 183,583 Foundation Project Costs 323,267 397,111 319,694 General & Administrative $1,942,376 1,958,630 1,749,624 Total Expenses

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Tucker Community FoundationEXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS

DAVID COOPERPresident

DONNA PATRICKVice-President

DAVE MORANSecretary

MARVIN “BUD” PARSONSTreasurer

DAN BUCHERMember-at-large

LYNDSEY NESTORMember-at-large

STAFF

Robert BurnsExecutiveDirector

Diane HinkleDevelopmentDirector

David ParkerOfficeManager

Sandra FrankDevelopmentAssistant

POTOMAC HIGHLANDS FOOD & FARM

KIMMY CLEMENTSProjectDirector

JEN OLINGERAssistantMarketManager

MATT ANDERSONMarketAssistant

BOARD MEMBERS

Shannon AndersonCheryl DeBerryAmy Barb Mark DoakDiane BeallNancy K. DotsonBeth ClevengerJeff KelleyJames Cooper IIIMilan NyplJohn CooperJessica ScowcroftRachelle DavisErika Smith

COMMITTEE VOLUNTEERREPRESENTATIVESAnne Brown WardwellRobert DunkerlyDebbie RitterKen SmithDave LambertDan LehmannCarol Gwinn

TheTCFStaffandBoardofDirectorsaregratefulforthegraciousvolunteerswhohelpusoutallyearlong.

SPECIAL THANKS

TimParksJerryBurkeJasonSitesGrantCountyDiane&ScottHinkleDylanThomasAlbertCamusBarbaraWeanerKathyBirminghamMomtheocean

CONTACT

TUCKER COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONPO Box 491100 Education LaneParsons, WV 26287p 304-478-2930f 304-478-9966edirector@tuckerfoundation.net DEVELOPMENT OFFICE737 William Ave. Suite 1Davis, WV 26260p 304-259-5008f 304-259-5100ddirector@tuckerfoundation.net POTOMAC HIGHLAND FOOD & FARMHighland Market737 William Ave. Suite 3Davis, WV 26260p 304-259-5388f 304-259-5801kimmy@phffi.org

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We have the power.

We believe we have the duty to properly steward all donations that are received by the Foundation for the community. We must use the donations to create resources and benefits now, tomorrow and long into the future. We are a motivational model for a more productive and sound future through commitment to our community; to teach giving without expecting direct personal benefits. We believe that promoting and protecting our heritage is so important it should be a part of all decision making within The Foundation.

We believe in high standards of conduct and ethics; in being open and honest with the community, donors, foundation grantees and ourselves; that avoiding conflict of interest in

both acts and appearance is of the utmost importance; and that communicating our values to the public is an important part of our organization and its service to the community. We believe in being open minded and we value the knowledge gained from the opinion of all people. We believe that all actions taken by the foundation must yield the greatest benefit for the community that we serve.

Our heritage is defined as:Our social and cultural environmentSelf-efficiency coupled with an intense sharing motivationFamily valuesCommunity spiritNatives frequently returning to the communitySense of belongingRural freedom

TUCKER COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONVision Statement

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