From our August 17, 2000, edition.

Foundation awards $8,000 to local groups 

By Roger Estlack, Clarendon Enterprise

Trustees for the Charles E. and Thelma A. Bairfield Memorial Foundation awarded $8,000 to four local groups last week.

The Bairfield Foundation awarded a total of $8,000 to four different groups last week. Shown here are (back) Jimmy Swinney of the VFW, Clarendon FCA Choir co-sponsor Mike Ray, Bill Holden of the VFW, (front) Bairfield Foundation trustee Rev. James Ivey Edwards, Clarendon FCA Choir co-sponsor Michelle Ray, and Hedley Community Choir director Bruce Howard. Not pictured is Jack Moreman of the Adamson-Lane chapter of American Legion.  Enterprise Digital Photo.

The Hedley Community Choir and the Clarendon High School FCA Choir each received $3,000.

The Hedley choir will use its money to purchase ties and vests for its members, and the Clarendon choir plans to use the grant to help offset the cost of sending its kids to either a leadership camp or a mission camp.

The Donley County Memorial Post #7782 of the VFW received $1,500 to purchase flags for veterans’ graves around the county. Another $500 was awarded to the Adamson-Lane Chapter of the American Legion in Hedley for flags at the Rowe Cemetery.

The Bairfield Foundation was set up in 1993 and has awarded approximately $58,000 to just causes since that time. Previous recipients have included the Saints’ Roost Museum, the Clarendon Volunteer Fire Department, the “Something More” After School Program, Clarendon Little League, Clarendon Girl Scouts, the Donley County Capital Fund (for the courthouse project), and the City of Clarendon (for the City Park renovation).