Evening Optimist Club donates to Project Charlie

The Evening Optimist Club of Cape Girardeau gave a donation of $3,600 to Project Charlie at its monthly meeting. Accepting the donation to the right is Jana Jateff, board secretary of Project Charlie, and presenting the donation is Amanda Walter, treasurer of the Evening Optimist Club. Friend of Youth is the motto of Optimist and what better way of serving youth than Project Charlie, a drug and alcohol prevention program taught in all of the Cape Girardeau Schools in second and fourth grades. A training for facilitators is being held at LaCroix Church from 6 to 10 p.m. on Nov. 9. If interested, contact Jateff at janasjets@gmail.com.