2008 Community Grants




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Recipient Charity
Amount
Money used for...

Allied Arts Council [Lethbridge & District]
$ 10,000
50th anniversary celebration activities [to enhance the council significant contribution to the vitality of our arts community]
Canadian Mental Health Association
$ 6,300
Lethbridge & Southwestern Alberta suicide prevention history project, with part funding from a field-of-interest endowment fund, to document the leadership role of Lethbridge and area in suicide prevention.
Cardston & District Health Foundation
$ 5,500
Glidescope laryngoscope purchase
Cardston Community Theatre
$ 4,200
Storage building for theater sets
Cardston Public Library
$ 2,500
Public use networked photocopier
Chinook Lifeline Association
$ 1,448
Replace aging equipment used by clients
Foothills Fetal Alcohol Society
$ 5,000
Family & community response project, supporting pregnant women so they can have healthy, alcohol-free pregnancies
Fort Macleod Historical Association
$ 5,000
To support the development of the innovative The Red Coats are Coming school education program
GB Probe School
$10,000
School playground development, to help build a barrier-free, community-use playground for children of all ages
Galbraith School
$ 7,500
Lighting & sound equipment replacement (to assist the many community-based programs offered by the school)
Girl Guides of Canada (Chinook Area)
$ 5,000
Camp Okeekum grounds upgrade
Great Canadian Plains Railway Soc.
$ 2,500
Historical lighting restoration of Coutts/Sweetgrass 1890's train depot
Jet's Stadium Society (Vauxhall)
$ 5,000
Expansion of Jet's baseball stadium [building of a storage facility]
LCI Band Program
$ 3,500
Band instruments [partial funding through the McDonell Music Endowment Fund]
Lethbridge & District Horticultural Society
$ 5,000
Horticultural Society's 100th Anniversary in 2009 X-eriscape demonstration garden, Galt Museum, Leth
LT Westlake Community Enhancement Society
$ 6,462
Playground enhancement, LT Westlake school, Taber
WR Myers High School
DA Ferguson Middle School
$ 5,995
Shared instruments for band programs, Taber [partial funding through the McDonell Music Endowment Fund]
Mosquito Creek Foundation
$ 5,000
Assisted living addition (assisted bathing tub) to Silver Willow Lodge in Nanton
Municipality of Crowsnest Pass
$ 1,000
Crowsnest Pass youth forum day
Noble Central School
$ 3,500
Musical production equipment
Picture Butte High School
$ 500
Achieve nutrition project, to help purchase kitchen equipment for the Achieve Nutrition Project at Picture Butte High School.
RI Baker Middle School
$ 7,500
Band instrument inventory upgrade [partial funding through the McDonell Music Endowment Fund]
Southern Alberta Epilepsy Association
$ 2,000
Community education program
Stavely Golf Club
$ 6,000
Artificial greens project
Wheat Country Special Needs Society
$ 5,000
Development of a new Program center facility in Vulcan



TOTAL GRANT DISTRIBUTION - spring 2008
$ 121,405

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