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2009 Columbia Green Grant Recipients Named
Columbia Green last week awarded $11,000 in neighborhood and tree initiative grants for the coming years for eight different projects throughout the Columbia area. Six groups will receive a total of more than $6,000 in grant monies for the planned beautification of their areas. In addition, two grants of $2,500 each are being awarded in the first year of our Tree Initiative program.
Winners of the Neighborhood Grants are:
- Strathaven Forest Subdivision
- University Hills Neighborhood Association
- The Downtown Neighborhood Association
- Ashewood Neighborhood Association
- Historic Waverly Neighborhood
- W. Gordon Belser Arboretum.
Columbia Green provides funding for plants and soil amendments as specified by the grant requests submitted by these groups. Irrigation must be provided for in the plans and we ask that a grant award sign be displayed when the project is completed. Completion of each project is expected by June 2010.
Especially significant this year are the two Tree Initiative grant awards. In honor of our twenty-fifth anniversary, Columbia Green will award a total of $25,000 over a five year period for the planting of canopy trees. The first awards are being given to the YMCA of Columbia for landscaping of the new Lexington facility and to Colonial Heights Neighborhood Association for tree plantings along Academy and Marshall Streets.
Help us congratulate the recipients of these awards at our Annual Meeting on November 11th. The grants programs are the very heart of Columbia Green’s efforts to beautify our area and are funded by our activities and membership funds. Follow the progress and implementation of these projects on our website columbiagreen.org in the coming months.
