Put-in-Bay park, Luther Home of Mercy, Danbury Twp. among grant recipients
FREMONT - Winners of the Competitive Funding Grant (CFG) through the Ottawa Sandusky Seneca Solid Waste Management District were announced at the April 12 Board of Directors meeting.
The program was created to provide funding to local governments, educational institutions and nonprofit organizations for solid waste programs. The district provides a specified amount of money in the budget each year for the Competitive Funding Program. The district has a committee with representatives from each county to review grant applications and make recommendation to the board. Funding applications are awarded in two equal rounds in January and in June. January’s group of winners are as follows.
The Put-in-Bay Township Park District requested $4,760 for a project to provide additional waste containers for the new preserves on Put-In-Bay-Morrison and Duff Woods. The containers would be made of 100% recycled plastic.
Luther Home of Mercy, one of the largest care facilities for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Ohio, requested $5,526 for outside seating in the garden area with furniture made from 100% recycled poly lumber.
A $5,620 grant was awarded to Danbury Township for three picnic tables made of 90% recycled material to be used at the new shelter house at Meadowbrook Marsh Preserve. In the grant, Danbury Township also requested four recycled material waste containers for Sackett Cemetery.
Gibsonburg to receive eight park benches in Williams Park
Village of Gibsonburg requested $4,433.10 to buy eight park benches made of 100% recycled plastic to be placed in Williams Park, home of the Veterans Memorial.
Bellevue City Schools requested $10,000 to help fund a recycled steel shade structure for the school playground. The structure can withstand 105 mph winds and will reduce temperatures under it by as much as 30 degrees.
The Ottawa County Ag Society received $3,163 as a two-part project at the Ottawa County Fairgrounds. The first is for expanding the recycling program to add 20 recycling containers to the grounds. The second part of the project is to update and fix failed landscaping with 98% recycled landscape logs.
A $7,369.41 grant was given to the Village of Marblehead for seven 100% recycled picnic tables to replace aged wooden tables. Each new table consists of 2,475 recycled milk jugs.
Marblehead requests seven picnic tables
Sandco Industries requested $1,221 for one 100% recycled wheelchair accessible picnic table for Senior Day programming, which is outdoors.
Oak Harbor received $5,929.65 to buy a dozen 100% recycled benches for its active living projects at Veterans Park fitness trail and Friendship Park along the Portage River.
The next round of Competitive Grant Funding through the Ottawa Sandusky Seneca Solid Waste District will close June 30.
For more information on the CFG, contact OSS Director Gary Baty at gbaty@recycleoss.org, or 419-334-7222, Ext. 1.
This article originally appeared on Fremont News-Messenger: Gibsonburg, Marblehead, Oak Harbor, Bellevue school get project grants
