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Bobrow Trust donates $250K
Harvey Meissner with Brook Henderson from Legacy Counseling Center
Over the last two weeks, the Anthony Bobrow Trust has, in its second round of donations this year, donated a total of $250,000 to four separate community organizations, according to co-trustee Harvey Meissner.
Harvey Meissner and Evie Scrivner from Dallas Hope Charities
The trust has already made smaller donations this year totalling about $10,000.
Beneficiary organizations in this round of donations are Legacy Counseling Center, AIDS Services of Dallas, Dallas Hope Charities and AIN.
Each agency received a check for $62,500.
The Anthony Bobrow Trust owns and is funded in part by proceeds from The Hidden Door, of which Meissner is president and general manager. Jim “Polock” Roberts opened the bar in 1979 and owned it until his death in 1988. Anthony “Tony” Bobrow, a longtime employee, took over as owner of the bar then and as manager of the Jim Roberts Trust. When Bobrow died
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The Alberta government is giving grants totalling more than $710,000 to seven mental health and addiction support programs in the Fort McMurray Wood Buffalo area.
The funding, which will be distributed over three phases, comes at a time when many mental health advocates say people are struggling with the effects of the pandemic.
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Edwin Rideout, chair of Legacy Counselling Centre (LCC) and a pastor at Family Christian Centre, said the organization will use the funding to hire a children and youth counsellor. LCC is receiving $100,000 to support a six-month contract for the position.