Representatives with the Ben and Myrtle Walkling Memorial Trust announced it will donate $25,863 to community agencies this year.

Myrtle Walkling, who died in 1992, created the trust in her will and funded it with more than $1 million, and since the trust’s inception, it’s given more than $838,000 to community groups.

It was Myrtle’s intent to support charitable and civic projects in Clallam County that otherwise might not happen, trust representatives wrote.

Here are 2025 recipients:

• Sequim Food Bank: $5,000 for the Weekend Meal Bag program

• Peninsula Behavioral Health: $3,963 to develop “Treatment Journals”

• Olympic Nature Experience: $2,5000 to provide tuition assistance for outdoor programs

• Olympic Unitarian Universalist Fellowship: $2,400 for personal hygiene products for Little Free Pantry and children’s books for Little Free Library

• Boys & Girls Clubs of the Olympic Peninsula (Port Angeles club): $2,000 for audio/visual equipment

• Concerned Citizens: $2,000 for tables, chairs and acoustic tiles

• Field Arts and Events Hall: $2,000 to provide free and highly subsidized performances with the Young Patrons program

• Joyce Community Education Foundation: $2,500 to purchase inclusive playground features for the Crescent School playground

•Olympic Peninsula YMCA: $1,500 for new volleyball equipment

•The Answer for Youth (TAFY): $2,000 to purchase boots for the “Safe Feet” program

To reach organizers of the Ben & Myrtle Walkling Memorial Trust, email walklingtrust@gmail.com.