CANTON -- The Canton Community Fund (CCF) awarded a $1,245 grant to Canton Central School for an interactive middle school counseling program that is aimed at providing students with coping strategies to decrease aggression, antisocial behavior, bullying, and episodes of school violence.

Leadership skills, healthy living, “cyber etiquette” and similar features are also part of the program, which will be administered by school counselor Mary Parker, according to a CCF press release.

The CCF also awarded a grant of $1,900 to Cornell Cooperative Extension of St. Lawrence County for a laptop computer and other furnishings in support of its Master Gardener Program at its Canton facility.

The Master Gardener Program is a national program of trained volunteers who work in partnership with their county Cooperative Extension offices to extend gardening information to the local community.

The CCF strongly encourages representatives of non-profit groups and organizations serving the Town and Village of Canton to apply for grants to further their projects that have a community-wide benefit. Recent grant recipients include the Church & Community Program, the Canton Day Care Center, the Canton and Morley public libraries, and the Canton Park & Fountain Fund Committee, for piping and other anticipated repairs to the village fountain.

Guidelines, as well as tips for making a gift and other information about the CCF, can be found at www.cantoncommunityfund.org.