#community-projects

#community-projects

The 15-member commission, which was created by the Oregon Legislature, has already awarded $125,000 in community grants to 38 eligible organizations for projects focusing on how the 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 has shaped the state. The funding, which was approved in two rounds, has flowed to both urban and rural parts of Oregon. Now the commission has announced that a third round of grants totaling $50,000 will be available starting on Wednesday, March 4. The maximum grant is $3,000 and no match is required. Fifty percent of the grants will be dedicated to rural communities.

The grant was given to the council by San Jose Water for wildfire resilience efforts in the Call of the Wild and Chemeketa Park communities in Los Gatos.

"It was a really easy sell to baseball to host the game here in Philadelphia. It's the logical place." - John Middleton

"I don't think we have a project we're focused on as much as a responsibility to the community that we're focused on, and that's figuring out ways to bring jobs," said Davis.

San Jose is experiencing federal funding cuts that jeopardize crucial community projects. Existing requests for $5.5 million were omitted from the government's recent spending resolution.

The Seaglass Carousel has been a dream of ours since it was first talked about back in 2005 as a sense of light. I was sitting in this area talking about how to draw people into the park. And they said, 'We need a light source.' And one of the landscape artists says, 'Warrie, what about a carousel?'