Fund-raiser nets $3,500 for Shiloh Home
By Bobbi Mlynar
Originally published 01:51 p.m., January 21, 2008
Updated 01:51 p.m., January 21, 2008
A Northern Heights High School junior has raised approximately $3,500 in cash and pledges for the Shiloh Home of Hope.
Robyn Meahl, 17, performed the “Harmony of Hope Benefit Recital” earlier this month.
“Robyn actually approached us about doing a fundraiser for Shiloh. That's the kind of young woman she is,” said Cindy Rhudy, director of the Family Planning Center, which operates from Shiloh, 605 Congress St.
“The event was so popular that we are already planning another one.”
The concert was part of an ongoing effort to raise money to finance purchase and opening of Shiloh, which will be a home to help single mothers and young pregnant women. Family Planning Center offices already have been moved to the location.
Robyn recently won the Missouri Western State University Young Artist Competition and was runner-up representing Kansas in the Music Teachers National Association Yamaha High School division.
As an eighth-grader, she won the Baldwin Junior High Music Teachers National Association competition and later was runner-up in the Kansas Music Teachers Association’s ninth- and tenth-grade competitions. She placed third in the Fort Hays State High School piano competition as a sophomore and won a scholarship to both the Fort Hays state piano camp and the International Institute for Young Musicians in Lawrence.
Robyn, the daughter of Jeff and Beth Meahl of Admire, is a student of Jane Wheat, Allen.
The next fundraising event for Shiloh Home of Hope will be the annual Walk for Life on April 19.