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Published: 01 April 2015 01 April 2015

Photos by Mary Alice Murphy

On Monday morning, March 30, at a seminar room in Western New Mexico University's Student Memorial Bulding, a room full of champions and awardees gathered to present and receive sizable checks from the Freeport-McMoRan Foundation.

Kevin Cook of Freeport McMoRan Inc. Community Development oversees the local process

Cook explained that the applications were due last December 1. A selection team received a matrix to evaluate and score the various applications. Thirty-six were turned into Freeport this year.

After a the scores from corporate personnel and the local selection team were combined, the team members determined which applicants they would invite to a interview process. At the end of that day, the awards and the amounts that each accepted applicant was to receive were determined.