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star-24px 2018 AARP Community Challenge Grantee

Project Category

Public Spaces
This grant will improve the City of Vinita community by activating a new public space for people of all ages to engage with each other with the purchase of street bollocks, tables, benches, planters, lighting, signage, attractions brochure rack, and art displays.

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Oversize check presentation.
New lighting in alley parklet.
Vinita Breezeway on Route 66.

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Launched in 2017, the annual AARP Community Challenge provides small grants to local governments and nonprofits in order to fund quick-action, ready-to-implement projects that can help communities become more livable for people of all ages.

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