{"id":14485,"date":"2020-05-23T11:12:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T14:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=14485"},"modified":"2020-05-23T11:12:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T14:12:36","slug":"meh-awards-district-recreation-grants-to-various-community-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=14485","title":{"rendered":"MEH awards District Recreation grants to various community groups"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>NINE MILE RIVER:<\/strong> The Municipality of East Hants issued almost $100,000 in District Recreation Fund grants to a variety of community groups across the municipality in March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The DRF\u2019s were approved by council during it\u2019s March council meeting. They totalled $99,250.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the organizations receiving the funding support included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Off-Leash East Hants Society for $4,500 so they can build a gravel walking path; notice board; and for storage and garbage bins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nine Mile River Trails Association $14,317 so they can replace boardwalks, drainage, stairs to river, new section of trail and wildlife mural.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>East Hants Sportsplex $8,288 \u2013 to upgrade dome lights to LED.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Corridor Minor Baseball Association $31,149 for field upgrades, light installs, and bleacher replacement at Enfield Legion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shubenacadie Canal Commission $8,750 to build wildlife viewing platform and toe rails on existing boardwalk at Lock 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>EH Horne School Preservation Society $9,674 for rear building windows and flooring in daycare<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Milford Recreation Association $10,126 so they can resurface trail and playground, and water system upgrades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shubenacadie Community Development Association $2,350 so they can do trail resurfacing at Rex McCoul Park and get a generator for watering park, flower beds and hanging baskets<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hants North Baseball Association $6,038 to allow for a scoreboard installation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Canoe Kayak Nova Scotia $4,059 for upgrade to the road and to create small parking lot and signage at Meek Road access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two more DRF applications were received and will be considered by council next week at the May meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NINE MILE RIVER: The Municipality of East Hants issued almost $100,000 in District Recreation Fund grants to a variety of community groups across the municipality in March. The DRF\u2019s were approved by council during it\u2019s March council meeting. They totalled $99,250. Among the organizations receiving the funding support included: Off-Leash East Hants Society for $4,500 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965],"tags":[196,1101],"class_list":["post-14485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","tag-east-hants","tag-municipality-of-east-hants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}