Published: 11/17/2001

Gifts from a Farr

SPT farr16p 01 - 111601 - Kristine Hoffman happily tells what her charity, the girl scouts, will do with the fifty-thousand dollars they got from the Jamie Farr tournament as Jim Poure, at right, and others look on. The Blade/Allan Detrich ALLAN DETRICH Enlarge

Kristine Hoffman of the Girls Scouts accepts a check for her organization from general chairman Jim Poure yesterday as the Jamie Farr Kroger Classic distributed $300,000 to 10 local charities.

Checks for $50,000 went to Camp Courageous, Inc.; Girl Scouts of Maumee Valley Council; Harbor Behavioral Healthcare; Kobacker Psychoeducational Center at MCO; and Ronald McDonald House Charities.

Checks for $10,000 went to Big Brother Big Sisters; Diabetes Youth Program; Juvenile Diabetes Foundation; Sunshine Foundation; and Toledo Day Nursery.

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