Two area organizations received separate grants to support efforts in and around the community.
The Mental Health Center of East Central Kansas has received a grant from the Tower Mental Health Foundation.
Attorney General Steve Six announced that $48,028 was divided between three mental health centers across the state. Emporia’s mental health center received $15,828 to purchase laptop computers.
“This will allow the center’s clinicians located in the public schools to remotely access electronic records and more efficiently serve their clients,” a press release stated.
The Tower Foundation was created from a settlement between the Attorney General’s Office and the Menninger Foundation. It is a non-profit corporation formed in 2007 and provides mental health services to Kansans and also provides support to mental health research organizations.
The Federal Highway Administration Awards awarded the Flint Hills Scenic Byway $76,000 for Pioneer Bluffs Prairie information and an education center with visitor parking. Three projects were awarded in Kansas. The other two was for Digital Media for Web site development and marketing for Kansas scenic byways and Wetlands & Wildlife National Scenic Byway — Revealing the Road to the Byway Traveler Interpretive project.
A total of $40.7 million was awarded in 43 states for 160 projects.
“I join Secretary LaHood in his commitment to protecting and promoting roads that are American icons,” Administrator Victor Mendez said, of the Federal Highway Administration said. “We’re proud to help tell each road’s unique story.”
The grants are part of the Federal Highway Administration’s National Scenic Byways Program, which recognizes and provides funds for roads designated either locally or nationally.
solong (anonymous) says...
I wonder why the Emporia Visitor's Center wasn't funded, not really.
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