Wal-Mart gives back to the community

Grants totaling $7,500 were recently bestowed on several organizations that serve our community. Wal-Mart store manager Steve Moss presented these groups' representatives with checks from Wal-Mart's Good Works Foundation. From left are, Rhonda Johnson, Shepeard Community Blood Center; Cindy Cope, Burke County 4-H; Edwin Stephens, Habitat for Humanity; Beverly Peltier, Augusta Technical College; Moss; Faye Winter, Hephzibah Lions Club; Ella Jones, ATC Waynesboro campus; Teresa Carter, American Cancer Society; and Shilo Robinson, Communities in Schools. Old Fella Burke County Animal Rescue also received a grant for use in its education program. Wal-Mart annually donates an average of $26,000 to area organizations.