WCA hands out "Healthy Is Here" funding to local organizations

The Wrangell Cooperative Association held an award ceremony at Wrangell High School Monday evening, Sept. 30. Tribal Administrator

Esther Ashton, along with several members of the WCA board, organized the ceremony to officially give several local organizations a check from the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium's "Healthy Is Here" grant. In total, $10,600 was given to 17 organizations.

"The reason we're here today is that we received from SEARHC a Healthy Is Here grant," Ashton said. "What they were doing is they were giving the different tribes in Southeast funding to help promote he...