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Rocky Boy Schools Superintendent Voyd St. Pierre smiles today in the Rocky Boy administration building as Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana Public Relations Coordinator Randi Heigh tells him today Blue Cross Blue Shield awarded the schools a $50,000 Healthy Kids, Healthy Families grant.
Faculty and staff at Rocky Boy Schools applaud as Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana Public Relations Coordinator Randi Heigh, facing away, holding check, and Superintendent Voyd St. Pierre, right, tell them the schools are receiving a $50,000 Healthy Kids, Healthy Families grant from Blue Cross Blue Shield.
by Tim Leeds
Representatives of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana surprised Rocky Boy Schools Superintendent Voyd St. Pierre and members of the schools' faculty and staff when they showed up during staff orientation day with a Healthy Kids, Healthy Families $50,000 check.
Blue Cross Blue Shield Public Relations Coordinator Randi Heigh told St. Pierre and the faculty and staff that the grant application covered all five pillars of the program - nutrition, physical activity, disease prevention and management, supporting safe environments and suicide prevention and mental health.
"This particular grand addressed every one of those five pillars and it was the best grant we've ever seen, and we've been doing this for many years," she said.
St. Pierre said teamwork, including work of members of the faculty helping with the grant and the skill of the grant writer, RJS and Associates, is what led to receiving the grant.
"This is everyone's success, he said.
Watch for more about the grant in Monday's Havre Daily News
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