Operation Round-Up grants announced

2009-05-06 / Local News

Comet staff report

Carroll County REMC announces the latest round of local grants in its Operation Round-Up program.

REMC customers make the grants possible by rounding up their monthly statements.

Those who requested and received grants, totaling $12,453.20, are: Carroll County Sheriff's Department, Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana, Junior Achievement, Town of Camden, and Burlington Junior League/Burlington Community Park Board.

Grant awards and projects are listed below.

Carroll County Sheriff's Department will receive $4,903.20 to purchase eight AED units to be placed in county police cars.

Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana will begin an architectural inventory of Carroll County's historic sites and structures this month. The Foundation will receive a grant of $750 for the project. Working in cooperation with local historians and preservationists, trained surveyors will traverse every road in the county, looking for properties that tell the story of the county's architectural development. Documented resources will include houses, commercial buildings, and historic bridges.

Junior Achievement will receive $500 to support the sixth grade Junior Achievement Global Market Place program that will be taught in Carroll County schools this fall.

A grant of $4,000 is going to the Town of Camden for building more adequate restrooms for the emergency shelter located in the Camden Community Building.

The Burlington Junior League organization will use its grant of $2,300 to replace the roofs on four existing dugouts at the Burlington Park. The dugouts were built in the early 1980s, and the old roofs will be replaced with metal sheeting, along with repairing the existing structural damage.

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