Thursday, October 19, 2017

Town of Highlands

 
It was a perfect day of fall weather for the Town of Highlands Scholarship Golf Tournament, hosted by Wildcat Cliffs CC.  As the Chairman of this event for the last 7 years, we've raised $140,000 that funds scholarships for graduates of Highlands School who are attending universities.  This program has been in existence since 1975 and very unique.  NC State Legislature prohibits municipalities from operating any kind of investment funds.  In this case, the scholarship fund exceeds $700,000.  While this event is the main source of income, the ABC store sales donates annually as well as proceeds form the Three Rivers Fly Fishing Tournament held each spring.  My main funding sponsors next to the players, are Mountain Findings, The Highlands School PTO, Duke Energy, McGill Engineering as well as Franklin Ford.