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If you google Plymouth, Maine, on the Internet, you’ll find there are approximately 1,308 people living there. What a google search won’t tell you is that most of them either have the last name MacKenzie, are married to a MacKenzie, or know a MacKenzie. And when their clan decides it’s going to put together a softball tournament fundraiser, they have enough members to make up a whole team.
Gerald and Christie MacKenzie hosted the fourth annual Jimmy MacKenzie Scholarship Fundraiser, in honor of their son, Jimmy, who passed away in 2003, at age 46, when his vehicle hit a horse that wandered onto the interstate. The loss brought the MacKenzie family closer and they vowed to turn their tragedy into something positive. The following year, they started the Jimmy MacKenzie Scholarship Fund, and dedicate one Saturday each summer to their fundraiser. The day includes a fishing derby and poker run, frog jumping contest, pig scramble, and a beanbag toss for the kids. They even got local celebrities involved, challenging WABI-TV5 and Q106.5 employees to a softball game against their family.
“Jimmy would have loved this. He would’ve been right in the middle of the frog jumping contest and fishing derby,” Kris MacKenzie says. The family has raised $13,000 since they started the Jimmy MacKenzie Scholarship Fund, which they award to high school seniors from Plymouth to help pay for college. This year they raised another $2,600, which will help five more students from their community further their education.
