YORK — The entrée was a celebration of TeamMates Thursday night at York, with heaping helpings of mentor recruiting and fundraising on the side.
The first of what York TeamMates Program point man Brian Tonniges hopes to be many annual banquets preceded a golf outing Friday.
“We hope to make this into something,” Tonniges said of the two-pronged festival, “just to celebrate TeamMates and as our fundraiser.
TeamMates sponsors a $1,000 scholarship locally for any student who sees his or her mentor/mentee relationship through to high school graduation, then goes on to pursue a degree.
An equal goal, he said, is to “maybe sway some people here to be a mentor or maybe you know someone who would be a great TeamMates volunteer.”
TeamMates, originally started by Coach Tom Osborne using Husker football players for mentors, has grown by leaps and bounds. Today, mentors and their young mentees are seemingly everywhere. Typically, adult mentors are matched with students in sixth or seventh grade. Many of the relationships continue through high school.
That’s exactly the case for mentor Chad Hammer and.....
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