$200,000 Grant Received!!!

 BIG NEWS! Our Trillium grant application was approved for $200,000!!! This is HUGE as it doubled our fundraising to date. It also puts us on track to release the design & construction tender later this fall to secure construction next spring. Very exciting. We now have $100,000 remaining in our fundraising effort.



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