BAF HELPING YMCA

Jay Rist (far right), CEO of the YMCA of Southern West Virginia, reaches over to shake hands with Beckley Area Foundation’s Conrad Cooper as fellow members Tom Lemke (far left), Dena Cushman (middle) and YMCA Board Chair Nancy Kissinger (hidden behind Rist) look on following a brief announcement of a $50,000 donation from BAF toward the construction of the new facility at the site of the Paul Cline Memorial Soccer Complex Thursday morning. Rist called it the “opening shot” in the process of making the new facility a reality.

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