The Tower Theatre Foundation is receiving a $30,000 grant from the Oregon Community Foundation to help expand the Tower Theatre's programs. "It is to help us hire one fulltime staff person to be a Development Executive, to help us raise money from a variety individuals and companies and groups and grants. And the focus of that work will also be to create an infrastructure that the Tower can then present and bring in programming in from kids around the world."  The Towers' Executive Director Ray Solley says they already have some ideas in place designed to educate, enhance and engage the schools in Central Oregon.