By Shannon McFarlin WENK/WTPR News Director
Paris, Tenn.—There are always a lot of smiling faces at the annual Henry County Helping Hand Radio Auction meeting.
A total of $306,821 was handed out to 87 worthy non-profit organizations at the annual session Monday night, which everyone agreed was a testament to the local community. With the Helping Hand auction, the monies are raised one chocolate pie and one coconut cake at a time and this year, that amounted to over 10,000 individual items that were donated to the auction.
Plaques were handed out this year’s top ten money-raisers and they were: First United Methodist Church which raised $32,304; First Baptist Church, $28,019; Tennessee Valley Community Church, $20,013; Pleasant Hill community, $15,950; Cottage Grove community at $14,249; Henry Co. Educators, $14,225; Security Bank and Trust, $10,865; Henry Co. Medical Center at $7,584; Holy Cross Catholic Church at $5,902; and Whitlock community which raised $5,449.
Helping Hand Treasurer Susan Bell noted that those ten organizations raised over $154,000, which was over half of the grand total raised this year.
Checks were handed out to the 87 organizations which fit into the following categories: Health and Well Being, Youth, Education, Senior Citizens, Community Improvement, Emergency Funds, Safety, and Fire Departments.
The Helping Hand Radio Auction is broadcast for two months every year on WTPR 710-AM.
New board members were elected: Richard Ball, Blake Stewart, Larry Mahan and Danny Veazey.
Photos: Jean Peterson, right, accepts a check for the Henry County Genealogy Society from Wendy Barnhart; the Top Ten fund raisers; Reginald Caldwell accepts a check for the Office on Aging. (Shannon McFarlin photos).
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