Ohio Hills Folk Festival, Buckeye Trail Band Awarded Grants

(OHFC Facebook Photo)

The historic Hartley Hardware Building in Quaker City houses the Country Store for the local folk festival. A grant and public donations have assisted festival officials upgrade and improve the building.

CAMBRIDGE − Seventeen grants totaling more than $64,000 were recently awarded to projects and programs benefitting Guernsey County residents and communities.

The awards come from the Guernsey County Foundation, in partnership with the Foundation for Appalachian Ohio’s I’m a Child of Appalachia Partnership Fund with additional support from Encino Energy.

Ohio Hills Folk Festival received $6,000 to upgrade the power system at the old school grounds and festival grounds to accommodate more modern food trucks during the annual July celebration.  

“This funding is the latest chapter in our journey to support our neighbors and our communities in ways that will be seen today and felt for years to come,” said Dave Wilson, Guernsey County Foundation committee member. “We are incredibly grateful for the donors who make these grants possible and the doers who turn donor generosity into opportunity.”

The Guernsey County Foundation was established in 1988 to develop and grow permanent charitable resources that provide continuous investment in Guernsey County and its nonprofits, schools and communities.

Bill Armstrong, a member of the festival committee, shared the group previously received at $5,000 grand for the county store building.  We “just finished scraping and painting the tin ceilings and added new gutters.”

“We started with restoration in 2018 and have put $40,000 in it…all donations plus the grant”.

(Buckeye Trail SD photo)

The Buckeye Trail Marching Band marches in a parade. The school’s band boosters also received a Guernsey County Foundation grant.