Grant funds help schools purchase equipment
By The Emporia Gazette (Contact)
Saturday, August 30, 2008
The Southern Lyon County school district got an equipment boost recently with a grant from the Southern Lyon County Foundation.
The school district received $25,000 from the foundation. That amount was divided up among the individual schools. Southern Lyon County includes junior and high schools in Olpe and Hartford and elementary schools in Olpe and Neosho Rapids. The schools purchased everything from band instruments to technology including digital cameras, camcorders and laptops.
In a 2007 article, Superintendent Mike Argabright told The Gazette that the foundation’s goal is to increase the number of annual scholarships it can provide to district students, as well as finance projects that will be chosen for each school.
Among the projects the foundation already has helped finance are new library resources, football field sprinkler system and reseeding, a weight room project, scholarships, technology equipment and defibrillators at each school site, according to information from Redeker.
The foundation works “on scholarships and bigger projects that the communities are kind of asking about and the board can’t take care of, and see if there’s people out there that want to help,” Argabright said.
create (anonymous) says...
Which Redeker? You didn't mention this person by full name to begin with. Lots of Redekers in Olpe.
August 30, 2008 at 11:29 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
glarson (anonymous) says...
My apologies, Create. I should have caught that when I edited.
The information came from Debbie Redeker in a 2007 Gazette story. Debbie Redeker is on the foundation board along with Mike Argabright, Pat Wiederholt, Susan Menke and Dan Schneider.
Gwen Larson
August 30, 2008 at 1:47 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
create (anonymous) says...
Thanks, Gwen. Just wanted to keep those Redekers straight. Some of my favorite people are Redekers. :)
August 30, 2008 at 4 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )