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Napoleon, ND
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Trails
Description: The city will add signage and benches along a planned walking and bike trail. The trail will run by a new nursing home, enabling residents with mobility challenges and other disabilities to enjoy nature.
Glidden, IA
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2019
Project Category: Trails
Description: Glidden's Northland Park features a mile-long trail system that winds through natural grasslands, a butterfly garden, picnic areas and more. But the park sits across a major roadway from another popular site -- the city's aquatic center. To improve connectivity, City officials set out to create a way to walk from one to the other. They installed more than 600 square feet of additional sidewalk and created a crosswalk across Highway 30, complete with flashing crossing signs to alert drivers of pedestrians.
Bath, ME
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022
Project Category: Trails
Description: This project widened and stabilized the Whiskeag Trail. As additional trail improvements, it also widened bridges and added ramps installed ADA-compliant benches and updated the emergency system.
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Cortland, NY
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: HomeFit Modifications
Description: This project will provide home safety training focused on the needs of older adults. Participants will also receive low-cost home safety products.
Ithaca, NY
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025
Project Category: Disaster Preparedness
Description: The project will conduct six disaster preparedness trainings for people age 50 or over. Four will be in-person at community centers and fire departments, while two will be offered virtually.
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