$10,000 grant to help serve youth

Students climbing the Alpine Tower learn tenacity, problem solving, and that fear can be dealt with.

For the tenth consecutive year, Western Carolina Pacesetters has been awarded a Moss Charitable Trust grant to fund Pacesetters Summer Adventures. The $10,000 grant will be used to host Support Our Student (SOS) groups, GEAR UP, and other youth programs from around the region at Pacesetters Adventure Center.

After school and summer SOS programs to be served include Clay County's Discovery and Pathways summer programs, Power Partner in Andrews, Texana Community Club's Youth Group, Stecoah Valley SOS, Robbinsville SOS, and Macon County SOS. Other groups to be served are Macon County's GEAR UP, Hawthorne Heights, and Clay County Reach's Student's Against Violence Everywhere.

Students venturing to Pacesetters Center engage in a wide variety of challenges and activities. The sixty foot high Alpine Tower is the main attraction for students to test their skills climbing and solving problems on the fly. In addition to the Alpine Tower, the Center boasts a fifty foot climbing and rappelling wall called the Great Wall of Opportunity, a Giant Swing, a seven element team development course, a complete junior golf instructional facility featuring a 2500 square foot artificial putting green, and a nature trail with over 100 identified plants and trees. Other activities at the Center include stream walking, disc golf, basketball, volleyball, and tubing and fishing the Valley River.

The Moss Charitable Trust was established by the late Dr. Fred A. Moss, one of Clay County's most successful and well known native sons. Dr. Moss was born in Hayesville in 1893 and went on to become internationally known for his work in the field of psychology. Moss' achievements included serving as head of the Department of Psychology at George Washington University and numerous books on the subject matter.

Although Dr. Moss died in 1966, the charitable trust established two years prior to his death continues to impact the lives of families and youth across western North Carolina. Pacesetters is just one of many organizations receiving funds from the trust. The trustees of the Moss Charitable Trust; Mrs. Fredericka Flynt, Dr. William Moss, and Dr. Spencer Gay, continue to this day to honor Dr. Moss' written imperative, "I want something solid, something that will benefit society as a whole."

For more information about Western Carolina Pacesetters and the Adventure Center, please contact Gil Hargett, Executive Director, 1920 Carter Cove Road, Warne, NC 28909 or visit the website at westerncarolinapacesetters. org.

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