Serving Boone, Blowing Rock, Banner Elk, and other towns of the North Carolina High Country | Founded 05-05-05

April 17, 2008 issue

New Ed Foundation Awards Grant

The Appalachian Foundation For Learning is a newly formed 501-c3 volunteer non-profit organization whose sole purpose is to support educational efforts, public and private, in Avery, Ashe and Watauga counties. The foundation recently made an award of $500 to Mountain Alliance to support its Rolling Academy program. Pictured are Natalie Lewis, secretary of the foundation, Todd Nolt (center), executive director of Mountain Alliance, and Dwight McKinney, president of the foundation. For more info, click to www.appfound.org.