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Clifton-Fine Community Fund awards grants for pavilion, firefighting suits, streetscape upgrades, health care help for vets

Posted 11/1/14

Veterans, an old schoolhouse, a fire department and two municipal governments are among entities in the Clifton-Fine area that will get support from $10,000 in grants from the Clifton-Fine Community …

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Clifton-Fine Community Fund awards grants for pavilion, firefighting suits, streetscape upgrades, health care help for vets

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Veterans, an old schoolhouse, a fire department and two municipal governments are among entities in the Clifton-Fine area that will get support from $10,000 in grants from the Clifton-Fine Community Fund, according to the Northern New York Community Foundation.

A Cranberry Lake community pavilion project will get $4,000.

The Wilderness Healthcare Foundation of Clifton-Fine Hospital is getting $2,000 to provide healthcare assistance to military veterans.

The Cranberry Lake Fire and Rescue Department will get $1,000 to buy two new firefighting suits.

The towns of Clifton and Fine will split $1,100. It will pay for streetscape upgrades and pedestrian and vehicle safety enhancements.

Save Our Schoolhouse will receive $1,000 to buy a propane furnace for heating in the winter. The group is working to save a schoolhouse in Star Lake that was built in 1882. It has since been renamed the Adirondack Exhibit Center.

The Clifton-Fine Lions Club will get $300 to launch a pilot program to clean up blighted properties.