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Posted: Friday, March 25th, 2016 at 5:52 am
Author: KNIA/KRLS News- Cayde Sprecker

Marion County Farm Bureau has nominated the Knoxville School district for a $25,000 Monsanto’s America’s Farmers Grow Rural Education grant to enhance the math and science education departments.

Farm Bureau member Larry Rowley tells KNIA/KRLS News community support received by April 1 is an important factor in selecting a grant recipient.

As a part of the continued series reviewing the Rush County Community Foundationas adesignated endowmenta funds, weall be taking a weekly look at the Rush County nonprofit organizations that have funds that support their mission and work held at RCCF. This weekas installment focuses on the BPOE Rushville Lodge #1307.

The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Rushville Lodge #1307, or athe Elksa, as most know it, is a wonderful non-profit agency that serves our community. The Elks is more than a building on the corner of Perkins and Third streets: itas an organization comprised of community-minded members that support our community and nation through charitable initiatives.

The Elks Lodge #1307 has approximately 300 members. In addition, the Rushville Elks Lodge has supported cancer-related issues in Rush County through contributions to Brianas Cause.

The Rushville Elks Lodge #1307 is a strong supporter of youth in our community. In addition to these aprioritya projects, the Elks partners with the City of Rushville Fire Department to provide fire prevention education to youth and supports Rush County Boy Scouts by offering them opportunities to work at events and hosting a fundraiser breakfast.

The Rush County Community Foundation supports the good, charitable work of the Rushville Elks Lodge #1307 through disbursements from three established designated endowment funds. Joyce Fund, the Donald and Mary Gray Marshall Fund, and the Rushville Lodge 1307 BPOE Fund provide distributions.

To learn more about the funds that support the BPOE Rushville Lodge #1307, visit our website www.rushcountyfoundation.org, our office at 117 N.

The New York State Department of Health has awarded a $450,000 grant to Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center to support the continuation of a program that ensures better post-hospital care while reducing hospital readmissions and nursing home stays.

Called Bridging the Inpatient Process (BIP): Building Bridges to Home and Community Care, the program has restructured the hospitalas discharge process to provide needed support to caregivers who will care for Medicaid beneficiaries at home and in the community and to ensure better transitions to outpatient care and services.A

Those changes have generated more than $2.39 million in Medicaid savings during the past year. aProviding patient care at home with the aid of caregivers who have received training, education and support on helping their loved ones recover from an illness is a proven strategy for improving outcomes and saving healthcare dollars.a

The abridgesa to home and community care are built by specially trained professionals a including discharge planners, social workers and resource coordinators from Niagara Falls Memorial and several community-based organizations.

aThis team of specialists has broken down the barriers between hospital and home by providing the education and support needed to effectively connect patients to medical, mental health and medication management assistance in the community,a said Kee. aNow theyare being supported in some very meaningful ways.a

Ruffolo noted the documented results of innovative Memorial Medical Center efforts such as Bridging the Inpatient Process: Building Bridges to Home and Community Care, Emergency Department Care Coordination and Short Stay Intensive Case Management have paved the way for some $6 million in government and private foundation grants thus far this year.

Included in that total is a three-year, $339,154 grant from The Peter and Elizabeth C.

While identifying the top priorities, two local legislators have focused on different areas within education they feel will make a difference.A

Sen.

Jensen has authored a bill focused on establishing grant programs to support school districts with paying agricultural education teachers for work conducted over the summer with high school students in extension programs.

The bill is designed to address the cutting of summer programs and to fix the fact that agricultural education teachers have chosen to assist in programs without being paid, which Jensen said is not OK.

“A lot of activity goes on in the summer with fairs and we need teachers to help,” said Jensen. “What we can see in the future is a science, technology, engineering and mathematics experience that can go along with some of this agricultural programming that rural schools have.”

According to Jensen, having grants for additional programming also provides an avenue for targeting students who may struggle in typical science or math classes.

“Agriculture is the second largest job creator in Minnesota. “Schools across the state are struggling to find qualified applicants for a variety of positions a from math, science and special education to agriculture and career and tech education.”

He went on to describe his Teacher Shortage Act bill, which aims at increasing teacher development and evaluation aid for schools, while also providing grants to student teachers who are training to teach in a shortage area

“I am proud of the bill weave put together which addresses this statewide problem by attacking it on several fronts,” he said.

Education Committee Chair Wiger noted the teacher shortage as one of the group’s top concerns before listing several others.

“Our stateas poor student-to-counselor ratio is also a priority this session; we know that when students get the supports they need, theyall do better in the classroom.

Brooklyn to provide free summer lunch program with help of grant – News – The Bulletin – Norwich, CT Brooklyn to provide free summer lunch program with help of grant

BROOKLYN For the first time, Brooklyn qualifies to host a free summer lunch program.

The school district’s cafeteria staff applied for and received a grant to participate in End Hunger Connecticut’s summer lunch program, which will provide meals for any child 18 and under who comes to one of two delivery sites in town.

“We’ve applied before and never qualified,” said Doris Marquis, the district’s cafeteria manager. “This years our numbers went up just slightly and we qualified.”

Marquis said nearly 55 percent of Brooklyn’s students now receive free and reduced lunch.

Along with Middle School Cafeteria Manager Tammy Taft, she will work with staff in the middle school cafeteria to provide the lunches.

Marquis said they will also provide a bagged breakfast children can take and have for the following morning.

End Hunger Connecticut administers the program, which receives federal funding.

There will be no cost to the district, although Marquis said they will need some supplies they’ve never had need of before, such as large coolers, pop-up tents and ice packs to transport the food. All of the children participating in the camp will be eligible for the free lunches.

Lohbusch will also be running a summer program for older children at the teen center, which will also be a site for the lunch program.

The teen center site will be easily accessible to all of Tiffany Street and Quebec Square.

Lohbusch said having the summer meal program is a relief.

“We’ve always known there were children who were hungry at camp,” Lohbusch said.

ELKHART a Junior Achievement is expanding its programs JA BizTown and JA Finance Park to students in Elkhart County due to a $17,000 grant provided by 1st Source Bank.

1st Source Regional President Bill Burton joined 1st Source Private Banker and JA board member Jim Story, in presenting the donation to Junior Achievement.

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Family Partnership wins grants to fight tobacco use

The South Carolina Tobacco-Free Collaborative is a statewide assembly of leading health organizations, community coalitions and businesses committed to eliminating the toll of tobacco use.(Photo: Submitted)

Greenville Family Partnership has been awarded Youth and Young Adult Prevention and Community Partnership grants from the South Carolina Tobacco-Free Collaborative to address tobaccoas impact on South Carolinaas youth.

One grant will help implement programs that are designed to prevent tobacco use initiation among youth and address current youth use of tobacco products while the other will help develop programs and activities designed to address the toll of tobacco use throughout the community.

The funding, for which organizations compete, provides support for the mission of the South Carolina Tobacco-Free Collaborative to invest in a statewide plan to make South Carolina tobacco-free.

aWe look forward to providing tobacco education and media literacy awareness programs, workshops and trainings to youth, young adults and their parents,a said Carol Reeves, executive director of Greenville Family Partnership.

While a recent report lists DeSoto County as the ahealthiesta county in Mississippi, there is still more work to be done.A

A Robert Wood Johnson Foundation program that ranked the stateas counties in areas such as quality of life and health behaviors put DeSoto County first overall in Mississippi.

The county was ranked first in the area of health outcomes, including quality of life.

Among health factors, DeSoto County was fourth overall, with social and economic factors third and clinical care seventh in Mississippi.

The only area where DeSoto County fared the lowest was in physical environment, where it was ranked 56th out of the stateas counties.

The areas covered under physical environment were such things as driving alone to work, having a long commute to work, along with air pollution levels.

The study also factored tobacco use, diet and exercise and the ease of receiving medical care.

While an accomplishment to be healthiest in a state that also ranks the highest for obesity, DeSoto County Health Council chair Jill Morris said the lofty listing can be a little deceiving.

aWe still have a high incidence of childhood and juvenile diabetes in children as young as 8 or 9-years-old,a Morris said.

Jack left Sky Trust to join, as a partner, the law firm of Balph, Nicolls, Mitsos, Flannery & Clark, later named, Nicolls, Flannery & Palmer, where he specialized in trust and estate planning, administration and orphans court litigation.

Jack was a member of the American Bar Association, the Pennsylvania Bar Association, where he was a member of the House of Delegates, member of the Board of Governors representing Zone 10, and a member of the Editorial Committee. He was also an active member of Lawrence County Bar Association, where he served as chairman of the annual essay contest, was on the Executive Committee from 1996 to 2000 and served as the president from 1998 until 2000.

Jack was very active in the community including having served as follows: president of the New Castle YMCA, president of the Lawrence County Chamber of Commerce, president of the Lawrence County United Way, president of the Highland Presbyterian Church Board of Trustees, director of the Lawrence County Community Foundation.

In addition to his service, he had been recognized by a number of organizations, including, being the recipient of the New Castle Jaycees Distinguished Service Award, Paul Harris Fellow from the Rotary Foundation, Pennsylvania Bar Foundation Fellow and The Gilbert Nurick Award, Pennsylvania Bar Association Conference of County Bar Leaders.

Jack married the love of his life, Nancy T.

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