But in 2021, the group will put its money toward a new and popular cause: equity.
Jody Demas, the treasurer, said the foundation raised $9,500 this year. It issued most of the money in giant check form to the Palmyra Board of Education at a May 12 public meeting.
Demas and her fellow residents asked school administrators to use the funds to add equity programs to the school community, and the administrators agreed.
Palmyra Principal Lisa Sabo will use it to pay the stipend for the staff advisor to a new Black student union, which has already started meeting. She also plans on paying for an expanded lineup of assembly speakers, both for the wider school community and for individual clubs and classrooms, who come from Black, LGBTQ plus and Latinx backgrounds.