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A playground and fitness park for children and adults of all ages and abilities is coming to Fedder’s Alley at Washington Park.
The Fedder’s Alley playground and fitness park will feature accessible equipment. It will also have sensory areas and safe surfaces that allow all children to explore and interact.
“It was designed with one core principle in mind,” said Sharon Eason, Michigan City Parks & Recreation superintendent, in a press release. “Everyone, regardless of ability, should have the opportunity to play.”
By this time next year, the hope is to have a playground for all children, no matter what their abilities, at Michigan City’s lakefront.
Plans for the all-inclusive playground at Washington Park were unveiled Monday with help from U.S. Rep. Frank Mrvan, D-Highland, who helped secure $1 million in federal funding toward the projected $5 million price tag.
He described his effort to compete for the funds as “one of those that is worth fighting for.”
Another $2 million has been approved by the City Council and Redevelopment Commission.
Calumet College of St. Joseph has been awarded a $3 million federal grant to support Hispanic and low-income graduate students, the office of U.S. Rep. Frank J. Mrvan, D-Highland, announced this week.
The Department of Education awarded Calumet College of St. Joseph a $3 million grant.
The funding comes from the Department of Education’s Promoting Postbaccalaureate Opportunities for Hispanic Americans program. The program provides grants to expand educational opportunities for Hispanic students.
Four Northwest Indiana municipalities are set to receive grants under the Department of Transportation's (DOT) Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) Grant program.
SS4A was created by the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which gave the program $5 billion in appropriated funds over 5 years. The program funds regional and local roadway projects aimed at improving roadway safety, and has so far distributed $2.7 billion towards projects in all 50 states as well as Puerto Rico.
Thursday, Rep. Frank J. Mrvan announced federal grant awards for Crown Point, Merrillville, Portage, and Valparaiso under the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) Grant program.
According to the DOT, the SS4A Grant program aims to improve roadway safety by supporting communities in developing plans to implement infrastructure projects designed to reduce transportation-related fatalities and serious injuries.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Rep. Frank J. Mrvan (IN-1), and Crown Point Mayor Peter Land held a ribbon cutting ceremony on Friday, September 13th, to mark the completion of the sewer infrastructure improvement project.
Residents of a Crown Point neighborhood won't have to worry as much about flooding, thanks to sewer improvements.
Officials cut the ribbon Friday on the Liberty Park pipelining project. Seventy-five percent of the cost was funded by the federal government, as part of the Section 219 program of the Water Resources Development Act.
Rep. Frank J. Mrvan announced a federal grant award for CITGO Petroleum in East Chicago under the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) - Federal Aviation Administration's Fueling Aviation's Sustainable Transition (FAST) grant program.