Mafera Resigns Community Center Director Post
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
LEESBURG - Sandy Mafera has resigned her post as North Webster Community Center executive director after a year of service.
"We raised the money and it was a wonderful experience," Mafera said Tuesday from her Barbee Lake home. "But I don't know about roofing and contractors. That's not my area of expertise."
Fund-raising is her specialty, though. She served for many years as executive director of the Kosciusko County United Way.
Over the course of the last 12 months, North Webster Community Center Inc. has raised more than $400,000 locally to match a $500,000 Indiana Department of Commerce Community Focus Fund grant to refurbish the building. If the group falls short of the half-million mark, the Community Focus Fund grant will match whatever the group raises.
Mafera, a self-described bibliophile, said she plans to stay home and read. And volunteer at the Community Center. And publish a family tree on her mother's side of the family.
"They're a great group of people," she said of the NWCC board of directors.
NWCC board member and treasurer Jeff Morgan returned the compliment.
"She did a fantastic job motivating and coordinating the fund-raising effort," he said. "There's a large thank-you owed directly to her. We have been successful beyond our wildest dreams."
In addition to grants and donations, the town government serves as the sponsoring agent for the center and has secured an interest-free $100,000 Public Facility Energy Efficiency Program Loan. The funds will go toward the building's heating and cooling system.
The latest renovation figures total $1.6 million for all the renovations and upgrades to the former North Webster Elementary School.
MSKTD & Associates Inc., Fort Wayne, has been chosen as architects for the project. [[In-content Ad]]
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LEESBURG - Sandy Mafera has resigned her post as North Webster Community Center executive director after a year of service.
"We raised the money and it was a wonderful experience," Mafera said Tuesday from her Barbee Lake home. "But I don't know about roofing and contractors. That's not my area of expertise."
Fund-raising is her specialty, though. She served for many years as executive director of the Kosciusko County United Way.
Over the course of the last 12 months, North Webster Community Center Inc. has raised more than $400,000 locally to match a $500,000 Indiana Department of Commerce Community Focus Fund grant to refurbish the building. If the group falls short of the half-million mark, the Community Focus Fund grant will match whatever the group raises.
Mafera, a self-described bibliophile, said she plans to stay home and read. And volunteer at the Community Center. And publish a family tree on her mother's side of the family.
"They're a great group of people," she said of the NWCC board of directors.
NWCC board member and treasurer Jeff Morgan returned the compliment.
"She did a fantastic job motivating and coordinating the fund-raising effort," he said. "There's a large thank-you owed directly to her. We have been successful beyond our wildest dreams."
In addition to grants and donations, the town government serves as the sponsoring agent for the center and has secured an interest-free $100,000 Public Facility Energy Efficiency Program Loan. The funds will go toward the building's heating and cooling system.
The latest renovation figures total $1.6 million for all the renovations and upgrades to the former North Webster Elementary School.
MSKTD & Associates Inc., Fort Wayne, has been chosen as architects for the project. [[In-content Ad]]