Chinook High music program receives grant and donation from Masonic groups
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Steve Edwards
(l-r) Junior Grand Deacon Bill Murphy, representing the Montana Masonic Foundation, presents a grant check to Chinook music teacher Levi Williams. The Foundation grant, plus a donation from the local Chinook Masonic Lodge, will be used to purchase new performance folders for band and choir members. Also attending the presentation ceremony were CHS music students (l-r, second row): Chris Barfett; Sidney Chafin; Rochelle Chafin; Cera Nobles; and Garrett Lowham. On the back row, representing Chinook Masons at the check presentation, were (l-r) Terry Grant, Jack Mattingly, Ben Hall and Frank Pehrson, Sr. Several Mason from Havre, who also attended the ceremony, are not pictured.
Thanks to the generosity of the Montana Masonic Foundation and Chinook's Masonic Lodge #50, band and choir students at Chinook High will soon receive new music folders to be used during performances. CHS music teacher Levi Williams, also a Mason, wrote the successful grant application that resulted in the $1000 grant award from the Montana Foundation. The grant and a nearly $300 donation from the local Masonic organization will be used to purchase the new folders.
Williams explained the grant and donation "will allow Chinook Jr/Sr High School to purchase 30 choral folders for the high schoo...
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