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Riceville Community School receives bus grant
Cresco Times Plain Dealer (Iowa)
November 4, 2008
Riceville, Iowa - More than 2,200 students now have an opportunity they may have otherwise missed, to learn firsthand about Iowa's rich agricultural heritage.
During the second year of the Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area (SSNHA) Bus Grant Program, $10,000 has been awarded to 40 schools within the Heritage Area, helping cover the costs of field study trips to 25 different SSNHA partner sites. Riceville Community School was awarded a $273 grant.
The Bus Grant Program, which is part of the SSNHA Education Scholarship Fund, helps cover transportation costs of field study trips to designated SSNHA partner sites. Grants are awarded on a first-received, first-funded basis to accredited Pre K-12 public, private or charter schools located in the Heritage Area, with a maximum of $350 granted per school building.
“With the high cost of gas and tightening school budgets, we are proud to offer schools the opportunity to visit cultural institutions within the Heritage Area,” commented SSNHA President, Don Short. “In many cases, without these funds students would miss the opportunity to feed a goat, milk a cow or walk through a tall grass prairie.”
SSNHA is currently working to raise funds for the 2009-2010 school year. For more information on the program or to donate to the SSNHA Education Scholarship Fund, contact Angi Reid, Education & Interpretation Manager at 319-234-4567 or areid@silosandsmokestacks.org.
Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area is one of 40 federally designated heritage areas in the nation and is an Affiliated Area of the National Park Service. The Heritage Area covers 37 counties in the northeast quadrant of Iowa. Interstate 80 borders it on the south and Interstate 35 borders it on the west. Through a network of sites, programs and events, SSNHA interprets farm life, agribusiness and rural communities - past and present.
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