The Jackson EMC Foundation board of directors awarded $34,985 to agencies serving area residents. $15,000 was given to Lindsay’s Legacy Inc. in Jackson County to help fund the coordinator’s position for a program that recruits and trains adult mentors to work with students within the county. The Boy Scouts of America’s Northeast Georgia Council was given $14,985 to provide uniforms, handbooks and summer camp fees for underprivileged youths participating in scouting. Quinlan Visual Arts Center in Gainesville received $5,000 to enable disadvantaged but exceptional students with exemplary artistic skills entering first through eighth grades at Title 1 schools in Hall, Jackson, Lumpkin, Gwinnett and Barrow counties.