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Arts education program SPARK! Arts Ignite Learning receives $50,000 donation from Top Hat, Wilma owners

January 18, 2016 /

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Bear Paw Development Corporation is a private non-profit organization created for the purpose of administering programs to help improve regional economic conditions in Hill, Blaine, Liberty, Chouteau and Phillips Counties and the Fort Belknap and Rocky Boy's Indian Reservations.

A Missoula organization that works to provide students with direct access to the arts will be expanding its scope after receiving a $50,000 donation from Nick and Robin Checota, owners of the Top Hat Lounge http://tophatlounge.com/ and Wilma Theatre http://thewilma.com/

Chris Neely, the executive director of SPARK! Arts Ignite Learning http://www.sparkartslearning.org/ , said the donation will be used to increase arts education at the Missoula County Public Schools’ three middle schools. SPARK! is the Missoula branch of the Kennedy Center’s nationwide Any Given Child initiative, which works to expand the potential for arts education.

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