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USA Grants INC Friday, 1.45pm - THREE churches in the Grantham area will benefit from more than a quarter of a million pounds of grants, it was announced today.
St Martin's Church, at Ancaster, was chosen by English Heritage and the Heritage Lottery Fund as the venue to announce grants totalling £860,000 for historic churches across the county. USA Grants INC
The 12th Century Grade 1 Listed church will receive £37,000 to help repair its eroded spire. USA Grant INC
The churchyard had to be closed for six weeks and the top 14ft of stone removed from the spire after the erosion was found during a routine inspection. USA Grants INC
Churchwarden Colin Phillips said: "St Martin's is an important part of the heritage of Ancaster.
USA Grants INC I want to appreciate the excellent efforts that 15 of our area organizations in Halifax, Nash and Edgecombe counties made in applying for recent dropout prevention grants funded by a special legislative initiative to eliminate dropouts and improve graduation rates. USA Grants INC
Words cannot express my disappointment and frustration at the results of this process for our area, while at the same time I want us to be encouraged and stay in the process. USA Grant INC The Dropout Prevention Committee received more than 300 applications that requested more than $36 million. USA Grant INC The N.C. General Assembly allotted only $7 million that was distributed to 60 organizations selected in this first round. USA Grants INC
USA Grants INC At the Jan. 29 Joint Legislative Commission on Dropout Prevention & High School Graduation meeting, I expressed my concerns about the selection process. During the meeting, one of the committee co-chairmen – Bill Farmer, a Rocky Mount native and Vice president of corporate development for Time Warner Cable in Charlotte – acknowledged that the selection process may have focused more on how well grants were written than on addressing the areas of the state that need the most help. USA Grants INC
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