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Corning, AR
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022
Project Category: Public space activation
Description: To encourage people of all ages and abilities to walk, this project added ADA-accessible benches along Wynn Park's walking path, as well as at the Clay County Courthouse.
Liberty, KY
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Public space activation
Description: The library will create a story walk -- a series of displays along an accessible path designed to display pages from a storybook. The project responds to local grandparents' requests for more activities they can do with their grandchildren.
Gooding, ID
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2020
Project Category: Public space activation
Description: The Gooding Public Library Foundation converted an unused area of West Park into a community commons. Located near Gooding's library, city hall and police station, the site now features accessible picnic tables, shade canopies and lidded trash cans. The library now uses the site for a variety of activities, including story time and science experiments. Library patrons, workers on lunch break and other community members also gather in the space. The library now plans to install a little free library in the park.
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Newark, DE
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025
Project Category: Trails
Description: This project will install two ADA-compliant benches along accessible trails. These benches will be placed at regular intervals to provide resting spaces for people with mobility limitations.
West Chester, PA
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022
Project Category: Public space activation
Description: This project installed ADA-compliant seating and tables, plus a security camera, to an underused terrace outside the library.
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