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Release Date: August 21, 2006

 

Press Release

City of Portales Receives Grant from R.D. and Joan Dale Hubbard Foundation to Continue Summer Recreation Programs

The R.D. and Joan Dale Hubbard Foundation awarded grants to 41 different non-profit groups including the City of Portales. The grants given on August 16th at the Hubbard Museum went to groups throughout southeastern New Mexico, totaling $244,800.

With the grant the City of Portales received, the money will be used to fund the continued effort of a summer recreation program in the community. Other groups from Portales received awards including the Portales High School Band, to purchase band equipment.

R.D. and Joan Dale Hubbard are the majority owners of Ruidoso Downs Race Track and Casino, Zia Park and Black Gold Casino in Hobbs, along with other real estate, golf courses, and horse breeding farms in New Mexico. The Hubbard Foundation annually funds approximately one million dollars in projects in New Mexico and through out America very year.

Terra Foster, Public Relations Coordinator, tfoster@portalesnm.org

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