"Give Back to Dave Wade"

GIVE BACK TO DAVE WADE

The "Give Back to Dave Wade" fundraiser is entering its second week with a goal to raise $5000* towards placing an original painting of a panther by former Cokeville resident Dave Wade in the Cokeville High School.

Letters were mailed to all community boxholders last Monday and nearly $800 has been contributed in the past 7 days! THANK YOU COKEVILLE COMMUNITY! Contributions can be sent to PO BOX 37 or given to Karla, Chemene or Susan F.

Cokeville recognizes Dave Wade for all the contributions he has made to our community. During the years he lived here with his family he worked with adults and students in a variety of ways. He taught painting lessons, was active with community youth, was active in his church in a variety of callings, volunteered his time with aspiring artists, donated prints of his paintings to fundraisers, and spent countless hours enriching the lives of many families and individuals in this town.

Even now as we wanted to give a little something back to Dave Wade, we find ourselves the recipients once again of his charity and love as we are receiving a beautiful painting to hang in our high school. We feel very honored that we will be able to have a painting of a panther on permanent display in the high school made by a man held in such high esteem by the community.

*Our local community non-profit foundation, The Cokeville Miracle Foundation, is overseeing this project and have agreed to match, dollar for dollar, the first $2500 to be contributed by the community.

The minimum fundraising goal is $5000 but every dollar raised from the letter campaign will go to the "Give Back to Dave Wade" fundraiser! Monetary contributions of all sizes welcome and greatly appreciated. Donations of $100 or greater have the option to receive special recognition in the form of recognizing a class (ie Class of 1950) or in a family name or in memory of someone. Smaller contributions (ie $20) will have a cumulative effect if donated towards a class (ie Class of 1989) and once a particular class reaches $100, that class will also be recognized.