Sixty BankNewport employees recently laced up their bowling shoes to participate in the company’s annual Bowl-a-thon, which benefits a local nonprofit organization each year.
This year’s beneficiary was The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center in Newport, an 85-year-old organization formerly known as the Newport Community Center that offers educational, social, health promotion and recreational activities to people of all ages and cultures, with a particular focus on the low-income residents of Newport County.
The center takes a multicultural approach and aims to provide a safe and caring environment and promote personal growth and well-being by drawing on all available community resources. Its services range from day care, to a food pantry, to a teen center, to activities for the adults and for the elderly.
A check for $2,000 was presented to Amanda Frye Leinhos, executive director of the center, by Daniel M. Silverman, a mortgage loan originator at BankNewport and Bowl-a-thon coordinator.
