MCRD Receives Hawk’s Grant

Courtesy of MCRD

The Montgomery County Recreation Department has been awarded a $2,380 dollar grant through the GRPA/ Atlanta Hawks Partnership.

Georgia Recreation and Parks Association (GRPA) in partnership with the Atlanta Hawks and the Hawks Foundation awarded 45 agencies across the State of Georgia over $100,000 to help serve communities through Youth Basketball Leagues, Camps, Clinics, Basketball Tournaments, Youth Fitness Programs, Virtual Classes, Esports/ Gaming Programs, Special Needs, and Adaptive Sports. The Hawks are committed to helping grow the game of basketball and encourage healthy activity at the grass roots level and want to provide the additional assistance to do so.

Director Kendall Bennamon plans to use the grant to help purchase new score boards at the Recreation Department gym located on MLK Drive in Mount Vernon. The new score boards will cost $7,500.00. Efforts will be made to raise additional funds to purchase and install new score boards.