PALM CITY \u2013 Community support was in full force at the Mark Garwood Foundation and Hanley Foundation\u2019s 9th Annual SHOOT FOR THE MOON, presented by Audi, Infiniti, Maserati, and Alfa Romeo of Stuart, on Friday, Nov. 7, at the South Florida Shooting Club in Palm City, Fla. The sporting clays event raised more than $200,000 for the Mark Garwood Phoenix Scholarships program.<\/p>\n
After a warm welcome from the Garwood family, and words of support from Congressman Brian Mast and Martin County Sheriff John Budensiek, 196 friendly competitors took part in the sporting clays courses. The day\u2019s activities also included a live auction, awarding of team trophies, and a barbecue lunch for more than 250 participants and guests prepared by the Martin County Sheriff\u2019s Grill Team. The highlight of the event was the introduction of the 10 recipients of the 2026 Mark Garwood Phoenix Scholarships, each of whom received a $5,000 educational grant.<\/p>\n
Since 2015, the Mark Garwood Phoenix Scholarships program has awarded more than $650,000 in scholarships to 86 adults in St. Lucie, Martin, Okeechobee, Palm Beach, or Broward County who are in recovery, committed to long-term sobriety, and ready to begin or continue their education. More than 90% of scholarship recipients remain sober while part of the Mark Garwood Phoenix Scholarships program. The program\u2019s 33 alumni have earned 48 degrees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PALM CITY \u2013 Community support was in full force at the Mark Garwood Foundation and Hanley Foundation\u2019s 9th…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[326,171,173,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-57444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-martin","9":"tag-port-st-lucie","10":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","11":"tag-port-st-lucie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}