Keep Southeast Ohio Beautiful and the Lowe?s Charitable and Educational Foundation (LCEF) today announced a major gift in support of Keep Southeast Ohio Beautiful mission to engage individuals in local community improvement and environmental projects.
The Lowe?s/Keep America Beautiful Community Improvement Grant of $5,000 is one of 120 merit-based grants awarded nationally to support grassroots community improvement projects ranging from community gardens and tree plantings to litter and debris cleanups, recycling programs, park and playground restorations and beautification efforts.
Locally, the grant for $5,000 will provide funding for Rural Action?s Monday Creek Restoration Project, one of several partners that make up the Keep Southeast Ohio Beautiful collaborative. The grant will assist local residents and groups in projects that support the revitalization of New Straitsville?s Main Street. Three green spaces along Main Street will be improved. In the community garden, an edible and native plant rain garden will be installed to control stormwater runoff and provide an edible landscape for the community to utilize. Fruiting trees will be planted in the community park. At Robinson?s Cave, replacement of the crumbling footpath bridge will give a safe path across the stream to the cave and historical markers already on the site.
?We are happy to see one of the Keep Southeast Ohio Beautiful partners benefiting from one of the many grant opportunities offered by Keep America Beautiful,? said Gary Chancey, affiliate spokesperson.
Since joining the Keep Southeast Ohio Beautiful collaborative, the Monday Creek Restoration Project and the Appalachia Ohio Zero Waste Initiative, both programs of the Trimble, Ohio based Rural Action have been actively engaged in Keep America Beautiful Great American Cleanup (GAC) events. Together, the partnership strengthens our efforts to address illegal dumping, recycling and community greening initiatives.
The grant program is being supported by Lowe?s company-wide volunteerism effort, Lowe?s Heroes. This initiative offers Lowe?s employees the opportunity to work on a project in their own neighborhood, helping to make their communities better places to live, work and play.
?Keep America Beautiful is proud of the positive impact that Keep Southeast Ohio Beautiful project will have in the New Straitsville community,? said Keep America Beautiful President and CEO Matt McKenna. ?We are truly grateful to Lowe?s Charitable and Educational Foundation for its support and leadership that is being demonstrated in community sustainability.?
doris day buffalo sabres texas news kim mulkey sarah palin today show dallas tornado video 1940 census
No comments:
Post a Comment