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star-24px 2018 AARP Community Challenge Grantee

Project Category

Other

Project Description

A new public garden space will be designed for seniors with the installation of planters and resting benches to encourage intergenerational gardening.

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Nearby AARP Community Challenge Grantees

Advisory Committee on Aging

Bowdoinham, ME

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2017

Project Category: Public Spaces

Description: Raised planters were constructed for residents who had stopped gardening because they were unable to keep a traditional, in-the-ground garden.

Age Friendly Communities of the Lower Kennebec

Bath, ME

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2021

Project Category: Public places

Description: This project will create a purposeful spacefor active engagement and seatingforall agesby installingoutdoor chess/checker tablesthroughout apublic plazaand along Main Street corridors.

ABOUT THE AARP COMMUNITY CHALLENGE

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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