Students from Pickens Academy applied for and received a grant of $150,000 to help Pickens County Medical Center. The grant is issued by the University of Alabama. Pictured, from left are: Hamner Allen, Olivia Lewis, Lindsey Hardy, and Allie Wilson.
BY GENA HUFF, Editor
Four students of the Senior class of Pickens Academy collaborated and submitted a supplemental grant to the University of Alabama on behalf of the Pickens County Health Authority, specifically the Pickens County Medical Center (PCMC), for a $150,000 grant geared toward the hiring of a new administrator to fortify and rejuvenate the PCMC.
A hospital entity is vital to our County for various reasons, and these students took the initiative to try, and achieve, a grant to help. “These are very bright students and we are very grateful for them,” said Shawn McDaniel, board member at PCMC and teacher/coach at Pickens Academy, as he introduced the quartet to the PCMC board at the meeting on Tuesday night, Mar. 20.
Allie Wilson, a senior at Pickens Academy, began the presentation. “I got involved with this because I am in Coach Mac’s Biology 104 class,” she said.
“They are not getting a grade for this,” interjected Shawn (Coach Mac) McDaniel to laughter, “but they volunteered to step up. I was explaining to them a little bit about healthcare in the hospital and what they are doing.”
See complete story in the Pickens County Herald.
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