Philip Parish of Marion has been selected as a winner in America's Farmers Grow Communities, sponsored by the Monsanto Fund. Grow Communities gives farmers the opportunity to win two $2,500 donations for their favorite local nonprofit organizations. Parish selected Cali Cares and Jake Hodge Memorial Scholarship Fund as his nonprofits.
Parish and a Monsanto representative will participate in a check presentation ceremony at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Family Life Center at Marion Baptist Church during Denis and Shannon Hodge's book-signing event.
"Life Without My Point Guard" was written by Denis about his son Jake, for whom the scholarship fund is named. Donations from the book signing will also go to the scholarship fund.
Cali Cares is a program started by Parish's daughter, Cali, that provides blankets to cancer patients, the critically ill or anyone suffering from loss.
