By Staff
BUCHANAN – The Board of Trustees at Michigan Gateway Community Foundation have approved these grants to the community in a meeting May 23.
$2,740.00 to Buchanan District Library, $1380.00 for the Community summer Reading Program and $1360.00 for electronic gaming equipment for teens, from the Schirmer Fund for the District Library.
$3,000.00 to Fernwood Botanical Garden, for educational interpretive signage for the gardens
$1,500.00 to Salvation Army of Niles, for a Community Needs/Strategic Planning Study, $500.00 from Buchanan Area Funds $1,000.00 from the Niles Area Fund.
$4,000.00 to Buchanan Area Fine Arts Council for their Children's Theater Workshops, from youth Endowment Funds.
$720.00 to Dowagiac Union Schools for summer school scholarships and materials and equipment, from the Helen Singer Memorial Fund.