Reclaiming Futures Cornhole Tournament set for Saturday afternoon during Old Fashioned Trading Days

If you’re a corn hole player or if you just want to do something to help a program designed to get kids off drugs, then you might want to visit Old Fashioned Trading Days Saturday afternoon.

The 11^th Annual Reclaiming Futures Corn Hole Tournament will take place starting about 2 p.m. in the Whitley County Board of Education’s parking lot.

All proceeds benefit Reclaiming Futures, formerly known as juvenile drug court, which helps teenagers in the court system get off drugs and stay in school.

The tournament serves as a major fundraiser for Reclaiming Futures.

Proceeds from the annual corn hole tournament are used for providing incentives for Reclaiming Futures participants, such as a Christmas party and small gifts.

“We’ve learned that rewards work better than sanctions. If a child does something really good, it gets a reward. They still get sanctions but they get rewards for the good stuff. We use the money to buy gift cards, tickets to the movies and so forth,” Whitley District Judge Cathy Prewitt said previously.

“It’s just for extra things that otherwise we don’t have money for. Some of it goes in the bank for a rainy day. We have actually used some of it to help pay for treatment, which is very expensive.”

There are three divisions that participants can take part in at the cornhole tournament.

The entry fee is $20 per two-person team in the open division and $75 per team for a two to four player team in the celebrity division. There is a $150 entry fee in the corporate division, which covers a six-person entry.

Prewitt said many of the corporate sponsors don’t actually participate and this is when organizers let the children from drug court play, but they aren’t eligible for the cash prizes.

Winners in each division will receive cash prizes.

The tournament is sponsored by Reclaiming Futures in the Cumberlands, Whitley County Tourism and the Whitley County Fiscal Court.

Anyone wanting to make a donation to the Reclaiming Futures program or to register a team can send a check made payable to Reclaiming Futures. It can be mailed to Reclaiming Futures at Cumberland River Behavioral Health Attention: Greta Baker, P.O. Box 568, Corbin, KY 40702.