CARRABASSETT VALLEY – Employees at Sugarloaf recently helped raise and distribute $17,100 to area nonprofit organizations, the largest amount given through this project.

The donations come from the Sugarloaf Region Charitable Trust, which collects money from mountain employees through payroll deductions. The employees contributed $8,550, which was then matched by the Sugarloaf Mountain Corp.

The trust was established in 1984 to encourage the existing human service and cultural organizations and to develop new organizations that would involve and improve the Sugarloaf area, said Cheryl Fullerton, spokeswoman for Sugarloaf.

Last year, the group distributed $14,000 and the year before, $10,000. “Thus, we are experiencing significant growth,” Fullerton said.

Area charities that benefited this year include the United Way of the Tri-Valley Area, Franklin Memorial Hospital’s Breast Cancer Case Management Program, the Stratton/Eustis Food Pantry, the Strong School Playground Project, the Franklin County Soil & Water’s Conservation Field Days, the Phillips Public Library, the Kingfield Economic Development Group Project, the Martha B. Webber Cancer Awareness Fund and The Zone in Phillips.

“They are very generous to us,” said Nancy Morgan, the new executive director of the area United Way. “It’s groups like them who helped us to raise a record-setting amount of more than $400,000 this year to give out to area organizations. Certainly without their help, we wouldn’t have been able to do that. They are a tremendous asset to us. They really help us a lot.”

For more information about the Sugarloaf Region Charitable Trust, contact Sarah Strunk at 237-6903.

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