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Community Foundation for Delta County Board Chair Charlie Becker, along with Board of Trustee Members Bob VanDamme, Will Carne, Sr., Marc Zawacki and Nick Chenier are shown presenting an annual distribution check from the Dr. Mary L. Cretens Endowment Fund in the amount of $9,492.00 to Mr. Michael Synder, Health Office/Administrator of the Delta Menominee Public Health Department. Becker stated, “Dr. Cretens was a lifelong resident of the City of Gladstone, and she loved her community. She exemplified the Community Foundation’s motto “For good. For ever.” such that, upon her passing she had her trust and philanthropic giving turned over to the Community Foundation for Delta County, an affiliate of the Community Foundation of the Upper Peninsula, to make her gifts to a number of organizations that she cared deeply about”. Dr. Cretens was a longtime member of our foundation board and served on our executive committee as well. She cared a great deal about people, and she knew the Community Foundation would be in existence well into the future and therefore the perfect vehicle to undertake her gifting after her passing.