Second Chance Breaks its Monthly Record for Donations - Over $100,000!
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Last month, Second Chance Emporium issued a record amount of grants to a dozen local non profit groups. Max Sanchez of Ammannsville did his part, buying this snazzy mountain bike at the store last week. Photo by Bill Bishop
Second Chance Emporium made over $100,000 in grants to local non-profit groups last month, a record for the La Grange thrift store.
The directors of the church-run store made the grants to 12 local groups. Both the total amount of the grants and the number of groups receiving funding were records for a single Second Chance meeting. Of course, none of this record-breaking good news could have happened without people like eight-yearold Max Sanchez. Max, who lives in Ammannsville, didn’t know about all this recordbreaking good news when he came into Second Chance last week. He had something else on his mind.
“I’ve always wanted a mountain bike,” Max said. And he got one. Thanks to a generous donor – or maybe someone cleaning out a cluttered garage – there was a bike for sale that was just to Max’s liking.
Now Max is looking forward to biking around Lake Bastrop with his family.
Max got what he wanted at Second Chance. And now 12 community organizations have more money to provide services to our friends and neighbors. Second Chance made grants totaling $102,865 to these groups:
• $16,000 to And Then a New Day for program tuition assistance to assist young adults with learning disabilities to be active and engaged outside their homes.
• $10,000 to the Colorado Valley Aquatic Center to help with the start-up of a public aquatic facility.
•$6,000 to the Fayetteville Baseball Alumni Association to purchase lumber and paint for bleacher repair.
•$10,000 to the Fayetteville Parent-Teacher Club, to buy Chromebooks, iPads and supplies for a newly formed garden club.
• $10,000 to Feed the Need to fund weekly hamburger cookouts for anyone who is hungry.
• $3,500 to the Flatonia Youth Sports & Events to recondition the group’s football equipment and to purchase two small basketball goals.
• $8,865 to Hands of Hope at the La Grange Church of Christ to provide children who are in danger of hunger with a bag of food every Friday.
• $4,000 to the La Grange FFABooster Club to help fund a January 2025 progress livestock show.
• $5,000 to the Schulenburg Historical Museum to help with final construction and repairs in the Bohm Building for expansion of the museum.
• •$7,500 to Fayette County Deputy Santa to purchase Christmas gifts for families.
• $12,000 toAMEN to buy Christmas turkeys for the food pantry’s clients.
• $10,000 to the Texas Czech Heritage & Cultural Center for educational programs and events.
Was this Max Sanchez’s first trip to Second Chance? No way. “I’ve been here tons of times,” he said. “I love it.” So, too, do a dozen groups in Fayette County and the thousands of people they serve.