2017 Community Grant Recipients

Adolphustown-Fredericksburg Heritage Society

Project Title: Cemeteries Signs Pilot Project

Grant: $655

Amherst Island Community Café (The Back Kitchen)

To be used towards the purchase of gas range, three-compartment sink, rotary toaster, grease trap, and materials to build accessability ramp

Grant: $5000

Canadian Diabetes Association

To be used to support local children and youth so that they can attend camp Banting

Grant: $2000

Canadian National Institute for the Blind

To be used to help seniors with vision loss from Lennox and Addington by providing a net of social support

Grant: $2000

Easter Seals Ontario

To send an Easter Seals child residing in Greater Napanee to Camp Merrywood

Grant: $2500

Epilepsy Southeastern Ontario

Project: Lennox and Addington Community Education Program

Grant: $1000

Greater Napanee Gymnastics Club

For the purchase of multipurpose safety spotting equipment

Grant: $3000

Hospice Lennox & Addington

To be used for capacity building – volunteer recruitment, training, and engagement

Grant: $3000

Kingston Community Health Centres

To be used for The Napanee “Chill Zone”

Grant: $2500

Kingston Community Health Centres

To be used towards the cost of a dentist for two of the free dental clinic days in their dental office at Napanee & Area Community Health Centre

Grant: $2000

Land o’ Lakes Lions Club

To be used for their Youth Drop in Program Enhancement project

Grant: $3400

Lennox & Addington Special Olympics

To be used to maintain Lennox & Addington Special Olympics athlete participation/sports teams

Grant: $3500

Lennox & Addington Stewardship Council

To be used toward the purchase of their Monarch Breeding Kits for Schools Project

Grant$500

Morning Star Relief Mission Inc.

To be used for their Accessibility Phase 2 (accessible washroom) project

Grant: $5000

School to Community at Napanee District Secondary School

To be used towards the purchase of art and craft supplies for the School to Community Program at Napanee District Secondary School

Grant: $1500

Retired Women Teachers of Ontario

To be used towards the purchase of supplies for early literacy learning kits for their Tales and Tunes for Tots program in Lennox and Addington

Grant$2000

Scouts Canada

To be used towards their Pinewood Car Rally Track upgrade

Grant: $1000

Waterside Summer Series Music Festival

To be used for their project “Celebrate Canada’s 150th with Elora Singer’s ‘O Canada! Joyfully Sing!” concert and to promote the Waterside Summer Series Music Festival

Grant: $3000