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Billings, MT
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023
Project Category: Park enhancements
Description: This project will add signage to Lillis Park that will encourage older adults to pursue their walking and exercise goals.
Hauula, HI
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022
Project Category: Park enhancements
Description: This project installed walking trails, ADA-compliant benches and a mural on a five-acre site slated to become a community recreation area.
Warrenton, VA
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2020
Project Category: Park enhancements
Description: To guide redevelopment of Eva Walker Park, this project developed a master plan to guide improvements to the beloved community space. Goals in the plan include enhancing a popular sledding hill with slides and a new staircase, constructing an amphitheater and pavilions and creating new basketball courts, gardens, paths and a playground. To kick off the plan's implementation, the Town created a contemplative garden at the park, adding benches, new landscaping, a concrete pathway and a decorative panel to beautify the park's gateway.
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Ottawa, OH
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Bike Audits
Description: Volunteers will conduct bike audits along popular bike commuter routes and potential future trails. The audits will result in recommendations for making walking and biking safer.
McComb, OH
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2017
Project Category: Park enhancements
Description: McComb prides itself on the public park on the village's east side, which encompasses four baseball fields, tennis and basketball courts, a public pool, two reservoirs for boating, walking and fitness trails and a 36-hole disc golf course. The McComb Economic Development Organization installed drinking fountains and benches around the reservoir, plus a merry-go-round and several swings, including one designed specifically for wheelchair users. The park has remained an important community resource and serves as the location for events, such as the annual McComb Cookie Festival.
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