Thank you for helping us honor Greene County’s Bright Futures!

Our 2019 Bright Futures finalists.

Danner’s Manners

Thank you for helping us honor Greene County’s Bright Futures!

Each year in April, we honor the top ten finalists in our Bright Futures contest. We write their inspiring stories, create a special section of the paper to shout their awesomeness to the world and we hold an all-you-can-eat pizza banquet for them during which we recap their stories, gift the finalists with bags of “swag” and announce our top winner.

Those bags, however, would contain very little swag if it were not for our wonderful donors. In fact, it’s possible we wouldn’t even have bags...

Along with our event sponsors McDonald’s of Linton, the Greene County Foundation, Quality Mulch, Midwest Satellite and Greene County General Hospital, these individuals and businesses don’t have to help us but they do. They give us vouchers for free food, free movies, free days at the pool, free days at the gym and free rounds of mini golf. They toss trinkets and treasures our way in multiples of eleven (one of our finalists this year was a pair of students), things like sports ice packs, sewing kits, note pads, pens, rubber bracelets, stickers, planners, wildflower seeds, gourmet candy, custom t-shirts, regular candy, customized, handpainted initial tags and homemade-that-day chocolate chip cookies, among other gifts and prizes to thank these outstanding young people and let them know how much Greene County appreciates who they are, what they do and how they will shape our world in the future.

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for helping us to give them the honor they deserve.

Our 2019 Bright Futures donors

Ian Staggs

Jeanne Burris

Barbara “The Cookie Lady” Hanauer

Rachael McKee

John Mensch

Stacy Burris

Patti and Lauren Jones

Diane Harrison

Matt Montgomery

Carrie Taylor

Laurie Pleake

City of Linton

The AM Risher Pool

Pizza Hut of Linton

Wendy’s of Linton

Long John Silver of Linton

Just A Hobby

Linton Cinema

Miner Mini Golf

Greene County General Hospital

Arby’s of Linton

Linton Sporting Goods

Ultimate Fitness Gym

Owen County State Bank

Greene County Sheriff’s Department

Bloomfield Police Department

The Sh’ae Lynn/May’s Flowers

Jo Etta’s Pizza

Humphreys Park

And one more...okay, eleven more thank-you’s go out to our 2019 Greene County’s Bright Future finalists:

Julian Blazier

Carson Brown

Sophi Edwards and Sam Rees

Cassidy Ellis

Abby Jo Hartzburg

Justin Lane

Audrey Moore

Trinity Salyer

Crislyn Woods

Katryna Zimmerly

Because of you, Greene County’s future is bright!

You are all very, very much appreciated.

See you next April :-)

Patti is a Staff Writer for the Greene County Daily World. She loves to laugh and also loves kitties. She’s kind of weird but has a heart of gold. If you would like to share a story or just make a friend, she can be reached at pattippdanner@gmail.com.