WalMart Donates $3,000 Back to Idaho State Football and PAWS :: Donation courtesy the WalMart foundation for highway cleanup

WalMart store manager Gary Black presents a check for $3,000 to Idaho State University football coach John Zamberlin (Right). Also pictured are P.A.W.S. coordinator Susan Beseris, and football players Jaron Taylor and Jason Wright, who helped in the roadside clean up. (Donna Hays photo)

June 11, 2007

Pocatello, ID - Back on May 5, members of the Idaho State football team worked in conjunction with Wal Mart associates to clean up the highway area from the Pocatello Creek exit to the Chubbuck Road overpass as part of ISU's P.A.W.S. (Proud Athletes Working and Serving) program. Today, WalMart donated $3,000 to P.A.W.S. and Bengal Football for their help in the highway cleanup.

The donation was courtesy of the WalMart Foundation, which pays grant money to WalMart stores that participate in environmental issues, and the roadside cleanup was covered in that area. WalMart store manager Gary Black, a longtime Bengal booster, in turn donated the Foundation money straight back to Idaho State.

P.A.W.S. and members of the football team will also participate in Pocatello PaintFest in July. This past year, ISU's P.A.W.S. program has logged over 1,900 community service hours in Pocatello, Chubbuck, Fort Hall, and the surrounding Southeast Idaho area.