Foundation awards $13,500

Goessel Community Foundation awarded seven grants totaling $13,520 at its annual spring celebration Saturday.

Recipients include:

• Bethesda Home — Grants supporting Friendship Meals for senior and campus beautification.
• Kansas Learning Center for Health in Halstead — Health education in the Goessel area.
• Goessel School District — Early childhood family engagement activities
• Mennonite Heritage and Ag Museum — Support for honoring Goessel’s heritage, agriculture, and schools
• Hillsboro United Methodist Church — A snack pack program involving Goessel families.
• Families amd Communities Together – Dolly Parton Imagination Library books to Goessel families.

Seventy people attended the celebration, which included a meal provided by Goessel Grocery and Deli.