Beadle and Spink Enterprise Community is launching a program to provide grants for projects that will better communities.
The grants are up to $500 each and available to people in Beadle and Spink counties.
“In our rural communities we don’t have access to a lot of funding, and so things like an improved sign [or] a restoration of an old building, those get pushed to the side because the funding is just not available,” Emily Rodgers, the enterprise’s Business and Community Coordinator, said. “So that’s what we’re trying to do, make funding available for these specific things that do need done.”
They plan to award 10 grants every year, and have already given five this year.
Rodgers said the projects that received funding include planting trees and restoring the Riley Opera House in Doland.
