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Adair County, City of Columbia receive $50,000 in PRIDE grants Photo accompanies this story SOMERSET, KY. Adair County has been awarded a total of $50,000 through the 2006 PRIDE Community Grant Program, the Adair County Fiscal Court received a $30,000 grant, and the City of Columbia received a $20,000 grant. To handle the grant money, A.L. Sinclair and Lisa Lee were trained on behalf of Adair County Fiscal Court. Carolyn Edwards and Rhonda Loy represented the City of Columbia. PRIDE announced that 47 grants totaling $1,106,515, were awarded this year. The one-year grants will be used primarily to remove illegal dumps and dispose of trash collected during community cleanup events, such as the PRIDE Spring Cleanup. The local officials who applied for these grants should be commended for their leadership, said Richard Thomas, PRIDE executive director. Congressman (Hal) Rogers makes sure PRIDE funds are available for environmental stewardship, but it is up to communities to put the funds to work. Citizens play role in stewardship campaigns Citizens also have a role to play in their local stewardship campaigns, Thomas continued. For example, volunteers may be needed to help with these Community Grant projects. I encourage you to call your local grant recipients to see if volunteers are needed. Second, throughout the year, citizens can report littering and dumping to their local solid waste coordinator. Cleaning up after a few irresponsible people is expensive, and we need to send the message that we no longer will put up with their illegal activities. The PRIDE Community Grant program provides up to $50,000 to counties, cities, other public entities and nonprofit organizations for environmental improvement projects in southern and eastern Kentucky. The program encourages community and citizen involvement in projects to promote personal responsibility for the environment. Recipients must match the grant with a contribution worth at least 10 percent of the grant amount. PRIDE Community Grants have been used to clean up over 2,000 illegal dumps, Thomas said. It was the first PRIDE grant program, and it has made a tremendous impact on our regions landscape. Since the region-wide cleanup campaign has progressed so well, PRIDE will begin to shift more resources toward environmental education. Thats the key to preventing our past pollution problems from re-occurring. Since 1997, PRIDE has invested $24,937,449 in grants to tackle the regions solid waste problems. So far, local governments and nonprofit organizations have used PRIDE grants to clean up 2,268 illegal dumps across the region. PRIDE promotes Personal Responsibility In a Desirable Environment in 38 counties by encouraging and providing resources for communities to clean waterways, end illegal trash dumps and promote environmental education. PRIDE was founded in 1997 by Congressman Hal Rogers (KY-5) and the late James Bickford, former secretary of the states environmental protection agency, and is funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. This story was posted on 2006-09-05 10:22:37
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