WCA shares grant money with community

 

August 16, 2018

Caleb Vierkant/ Wrangell Sentinel

The Wrangell Cooperative Association made a donation of $1,000 to Wrangell High School and Middle School to support their athletic programs. Pictured is Principal David Macri (left) and WCA Tribal Administrator Esther Ashton (right).

The Wrangell Cooperative Association recently received a $50,000 grant from SEARHC. According to WCA Tribal Administrator Esther Ashton, several other communities with First Nations entities also received similar grants. The "Healthy is Here" grant is meant to help promote public health within their community.

"The way that it was defined was really left up to the tribal board to determine how they wanted to promote health and culture within our

community," Ashton said. "So the board went through a very rigorous process of trying to figure out how to distribute these funds amongst our comm...



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