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MEMBER TO MEMBER

Grant Opportunities Create
Possibility in Chanute, Kansas
By Julie Aikins

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hanute, a small town with a population of 9,200, is located
in Neosho County in the rural southeast corner of Kansas,
two hours from many of the state's larger cities, like Kansas
City, Wichita and Tulsa. The Chanute Recreation Commission (CRC) has just added four full-time employees, but four years ago,
a small but very significant grant started a chain reaction that has impacted the agency and the town in exciting ways!
erational programming and additional programs for families, adults
and seniors. These programs also
needed a wide variety of multiuse equipment to bring this vision
to life. So, we applied for and got
that initial grant for $9,200 from
the Kansas Health Foundation,
$7,800 of which was used to purchase the equipment and the re-

PHOTOS COURTESY OF CHANUTE RECREATION COMMISSION

Getting the Grants
In 2014, the CRC began focusing
its efforts on addressing several
growing health concerns facing
the community, among them adult
obesity, diabetes and limited access to recreational opportunities
for its children. We saw a need to
develop new programs for a wider
audience, including more multigen-

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maining funds helped in providing
family events and promoting new
programs. Almost immediately, we
discovered additional possibilities
for program expansion.
With permission from city government officials, we repurposed a
former public golf course on cityowned land into Lakeview Recreational Area, a multiuse, outdoor
facility with 2 miles of planned
trekking trails and 18 holes for both
disc and foot golf. Two matching
grants - one from the Kansas Recreation and Parks Association and
another from Cunningham Recreation - totaling $100,000 allowed
us to install equipment for an outdoor adult fitness circuit surrounded by five nature-themed children's
play pods, designed so parents
could work out while their children
play nearby.
Lakeview is bordered on the
north by Santa Fe Park and Lake,
and on the east by the city ball
complex. Grants from the Kansas
Department of Wildlife and Parks
allowed us to restore much of the
land with natural prairie grasses
to establish an Outdoor Wildlife
Learning Site (OWLS), outdoor
education area for pollinators,
wetland wildlife, and woods and
prairie life.
Our efforts to offer more active
opportunities for residents result-

Chanute Recreation Center afterschool
participants plant strawberries in the container garden established with funding to
promote nutrition literacy and gardening.



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