On Monday, the Four Winds Mahjongg League presented a check to Paws for Freedom, a Tonganoxie not-for-profit.

Each year The Four Winds Mahjongg League chooses a charity to whom they donate their check from the National Mah Jongg League, Inc. in New York. The amount of the check based on how many mahjongg cards each group ordered during the past year.

Lea Ann Shearer, the executive director of Paws for Freedom accepted the $105 check. Paws for Freedom trains and places service dogs with people with disabilities. To help train the dogs each day after school, Paws For Freedom utilizes students at Horizon Academy, a private school in Roeland Park for children with learning disabilities in grades 1 through 12.

The Four Winds Mahjongg League is organized by Suzie Fehseke, who also teaches mahjongg workshops regularly at the Basehor Community Library. The league plays every Monday evening and Friday afternoon at the Basehor Library.

Mahjongg is a tile game of skill and chance played at a table with four players using a card which tells what combinations of tiles can be used to win the game. The card used changes yearly.