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honorariums for instructors, and to fund life skill courses. (This includes a contribution from South Kent Wind.)

The Canadian Red Cross Society has received $20,000 to run the Let’s Go Home with the Homeward Bound program.

A total of $21,900 has been allocated to the Children’s Treatment Centre Foundation of C-K to set up three locations in Chatham-Kent that will allow children and adults access to amphibious wheelchairs, including the purchase of Mobi mats.

A $20,000 grant has been made to the YMCA of Southwestern Ontario to make improvements to automatic pool equipment.

The municipality is getting $15,000 to establish a public art grant for $5,000 over three years. Funds will be matched by the municipality.

The Tilbury Solid Rock Cafe Youth Centre has received $15,600; Squash Ontario is getting $15,000; Restorative Justice Chatham-Kent is receiving $14,000; Four Counties Health Services Foundation is getting $12,000;

Rotary Club of Dresden Service Fund, $10,560; Blenheim Youth Centre, $10,500; Chatham-Kent Health Alliance Foundation, $10,000; and First Presbyterian Church received $10,000. Other groups benefiting from funding include

FreeHelpCK, Kiwanis Club, and the Lower Thames Valley Conservation Authority.

The CKCF will accept applications for the Fall Grant round between Aug. 15 and Sept. 20 at ChathamKentCommunityFoundation.ca.