Celebrate 2000 Community Beautification Project
Communities in Booker Dimmitt Nazareth Mutheshoe Wellington White Deer Elkhart Guymon Hooker Goodwell received 10000 grants for memorials parks and school beautification. Projects include a caboose gaze basket lighting pond butterfly garden bird sanctuary and historic markers along with trees benches and decorative planters in multiple towns across Oklahoma and Kansas.
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Booker
Main Street
Dimmitt
South Lake Park
Nazareth
Wellington
White Deer
White Deer City Park
Elkhart
Kan
Whistle Stop Park
Guymon
Okla
Centennial Park
Hooker
Hooker Park
Goodwell
Celebrate 2000 marks end and new century in Amarillo area
After 18 months of community effort Celebrate 2000, backed by Amarillo Globe News and sponsors, invested over 700000 in parks landscaping scholarships and monuments across the four state area. The program funded 89 area seniors with 850 each for college and raised 75000 in scholarships plus 100000 in landscaping across 10 towns. Notable sponsors included Amarillo National Bank Maxor Northwest Texas Healthcare and Southwestern Public Service. The milestone also crowned a millennium baby, Grant Gray born minutes after midnight at Northwest Texas Hospital with a 20000 college fund and a commemorative blanket.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo Globe News
Celebrate 2000
Amarillo Four-State
Garet von Netzer
Amarillo National Bank
Maxor National Pharmacy Services Corp
Northwest Texas Healthcare System
Southwestern Public Service Co
Richard Ware
Amarillo National
Ware
Ware Said. ‘*It Was A Great Way To Start the Century,’ Ware
von Netzer
Amarillo
Cavender
Boot City
Caytie Martin
NWTHS
Martin
Little Grant Gray
Northwest Texas Hospital
Bryan and
Lorin Gray
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Amarilionet.com
Into
Don and Sybil Harrington
Jerry Hodge
Maxor
Hodge
Roy Fausset
Perryton
Robert Bennett
J.D. Holtzclaw
Dumas
High Card
Clarendon
Globe News
Tracy Ware
San Jacinto Elementary
Annette M. Crowlette
Bank of America
Pierce Street
Center City
Ronnie Mullins
Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 297
Kirk Watson
Globe-News
Panhandle War Memorial
Steven Dearinger
Southwestern Public Service Company
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