Community Foundation for Delta County Board members Bob VanDamme and Will Carne, Sr. along with Board Chair Charles Becker, presents Gladstone City Manager Eric Buckman and Treasurer Vicki Schroeder with an annual distribution from the Dr. Mary L. Cretens Endowment Fund in the amount of $158,432.80. VanDamme 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. 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,” stated Mr. Carne. Buckman and Schroeder expressed their sincere thanks to Dr. Cretens and the Community Foundation on behalf of the citizens of the community. This year the community foundation has distributed annual gifts totaling over $323,000 from the Dr. Mary L. Cretens Endowment Fund.