First Things First Delivers Check to Gila Region for Kids 5 and Younger

First Things First delivered a $631,000 check to the Gila region on Monday at the Miami Head Start Center. The check will fund early childhood services to the local area from July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012.

(Photo L to R: Globe Mayor Fernando Shipley; Gila Regional Council members Sherri Moody, Ann Tolman and Paula Horn; First Things First Executive Director Rhian Evans Allvin; Audrey Opitz, Gila Regional Council member; Mike Pastor, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors; Hazel Chandler, Gila Regional Council Coordinator; Alexis Rivera, Gila Regional Council Vice-Chair; and Sue Yale, Gila Regional Council Chair.)