Wednesday, May 26, 1999 | 10:40 a.m.
Peter Benton's golf column appears Wednesday.
The PGA Tour's Las Vegas Invitational and the Senior Tour's Las Vegas Senior Classic are tournaments that truly reward the Las Vegas community.
Proceeds from these two events are deposited with the Las Vegas Founders Golf Foundation, which in turn selects worthy organizations to receive disbursements.
Recently the foundation's chairman, Ted Wiens, Jr., announced that $500,000 will be distributed this year as follows:
* The Lied Discovery Children's Museum will receive funds to construct an Early Childhood Pavilion.
* The Southern Nevada Junior Golf Association (SNJGA) will use its grant to cover expenses for the 1999 Las Vegas Founders' Legacy Junior Golf Tournament in June.
* The Children's Service Guild of Southern Nevada will purchase and install a specialized playground surface, "Tot Turf," at the Child Haven shelter.
* The Boulder Dam Area Council and the Boy Scouts of America will apply donated funds to cover expenses for a kitchen facility at Camp Potosi.
* The Las Vegas Natural History Museum will construct an interactive African Rainforest Exhibit.
* M.A.S.H. Village Cold Weather Shelter will use the grant to help purchase a tent structure for emergency shelter.
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