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McCook
Late in 2007 Don Harpst and his wife, Alice, challenged the McCook Community Foundation Fund to raise $75,000 by December 31, 2007. If successful, the Harpsts promised to donate an additional $25,000.
The Fund Advisory Committee visited with members of the community asking them to become Founders at the $1,000 level. All together the campaign produced $137,817. All but $4,000 is for an unrestricted endowment.
“Tis better to give than receive” is a value that was instilled in Verlene and Gerald “Gundy” Gunderson while they were growing up in Beemer, Nebraska and Norway, Iowa.
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