City council approved $8,000 worth of matching grants on Monday night for 13 community enhancement projects.
The receiving groups are:
- Blackburn Community Association: $700 to refurbish landscaping at the community hall;
- Canadian Mental Health Association: $400 to create raised flowerbeds;
- Carrier Sekani Family Services: $500 for a garden plot for the families of clients;
- Community Arts Council: $950 to train youth to create murals;
- Haggerstone James Community Garden - $300 for site at 10th and Vancouver;
- Hart Community Association: $1,000 for planters and flower baskets;
- Knox United Church: $200 for landscaping Brunswick Street frontage;
- Susan Manning: $650 for Quince Street neighbourhood garden boxes;
- Prince George Agricultural and Historical Association: $500 for children's radish kits;
- Prince George Montessori Educational Society: $500 for enhancement of community garden;
- Sacred Heart elementary school: $500 to decorate fence with wooden cutouts;
- Tourism Prince George Society: $600 to improve flower boxes and petunia tree on First Avenue;
- Vanway Playground and Park: $1,500 to install benches and picnic tables.
An advisory subcommittee of three volunteers and one city staff member reviewed 18 applications for this latest round. A further $8,000 of grants, which can be matched with in-kind services, will be distributed in the fall.
