Ben and Myrtle Walkling Memorial Trust Grant Awards 2023

The Ben and Myrtle Walkling Memorial Trust will award $17,600 in grants in 2023. Myrtle Walkling, who died in 1992, created this Trust in her will and funded it with more than $1 million.

Since the trust was funded in 1992 it has given over $763,839 for community grants. It was her intent that the income from the Trust be used for charitable and civic projects in Clallam County that otherwise might not happen.

2023 grant awards are:

Concerned Citizens – $3,000 – Van purchase

Healthy Families of Clallam County – $2,500 – Transitional housing

Joyce Community Education Foundation – $1,000 – digital camera and equipment

North Olympic Library System – Sequim – $2,000 – Library expansion

Olympic Nature Experience – $1,000 – Emergency supplies

Olympic Peninsula Extended Needs Housing – $2,000 – Adult personal needs

PAHS Band Boosters – $2,000 – Transport to SeaTac

Rainforest Council for the Arts – $600 – Art supplies

Sequim Food Bank – $1,500 – Holiday meal program

Volunteer Hospice of Clallam County – $2,000 – Hospice-specific nursing supplies

Peninsula Medical Organization Awards Scholarships and Grants for 2023

The Clallam County Physicians Community Benefit Fund announces awards for both academic scholarships in medically related fields and medically related community grants to be awarded in 2023.

The benefits fund was formed in 1995 when Regence BlueShield joined with Clallam County Physisions Services, Inc., a company formed by local physicians to provide health care coverage to Clallam County citizens.

2022-2023 academic scholarship awards are:

Brianna Cowan $4,000

Shannon Gordon $2,000

Reece Moody $3,000

Bailey Powers $3,000

Misti Reed $2,000

Rikki Weaver $2,000

For a total of $16,000

The 2023 grant awards are:

Clallam 2 Fire-Rescue – $4,361.66 – Glide Stair Chair

Concerned Citizens – $5,000 – Generator and propane

First Step Family Support Center – $1,000 – Cribs

Hurricane Ridge Ski Patrol – $3,000 – Rescue toboggans

Port Angeles Education Foundation – $1,500 – Vision care

Volunteer Hospice of Clallam County – $5,357 – Oxygen concentrators and foam mattresses