Cavendish
posted
Oct 31, 2012
The Cavendish Community Fund has announced that it awarded three
grants to local organizations for educational projects that will
benefit Cavendish residents. The first grant went to the
Proctorsville Fire Department to help fund its Junior Firefighter
training program. Junior firefighters are youth ages 12-17 who have
an interest in becoming the next generation of firefighters. The
program gives these youth skills and confidence to be fully
functional when they reach the age to join as full members of the
department. More specifically, the grant will pay for face masks
and other equipment to help outfit the junior firefighters so their
training achieves its goals.
The second grant went to Stepping Stones Preschool to enable it
to partner with the Grafton Nature Museum in order to offer
students a variety of nature classes and studies. The
programs are indoor and outdoor, hands on explorations geared to
maximize preschoolers' grasp of nature topics. Topics include bats,
amphibians, beavers, insects, owls, wetlands, and animals in
winter. The grant will pay for the materials necessary to teach the
series of classes.
Finally the Cavendish Fletcher Community Library received a
grant to train Cavendish residents free of charge in
Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) techniques. The class will be
limited to twenty local residents with the goal of making Cavendish
a "Heart Saver Town." Currently less than twelve percent of
individuals who go into cardiac arrest survive. The survival rate
doubles or triples if CPR is administered immediately. The grant
will pay the cost of residents' tuition to the classes.
The Cavendish Community Fund has awarded more than $22,000 in
grants since 2007 to local groups and individuals for programs of
an educational, artistic or cultural nature. The next round
of grants will be awarded in the spring and the application
deadline will be announced in late winter. For more
information on the CCF, please visit the website
www.CavendishCCCA.org
