Grant funds help schools purchase equipment
By The Emporia Gazette (Contact)
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Photo by Brandy Nance
Students in the USD 252, South Lyon County School District, display the items the district was able to purchase through a $25,000 grant with the South Lyon County Foundation. The district was able to purchase band instruments and lots of technology equipment such as digital cameras, video cameras and laptops for use by the students in the district.
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.
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Posted by create (anonymous) on August 30, 2008 at 11:29 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Which Redeker? You didn't mention this person by full name to begin with. Lots of Redekers in Olpe.
Posted by glarson (Gwen Larson) on August 30, 2008 at 1:47 p.m. (Suggest removal)
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
Posted by create (anonymous) on August 30, 2008 at 4 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Thanks, Gwen. Just wanted to keep those Redekers straight. Some of my favorite people are Redekers. :)
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