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January 29, 2012

Anonymous Press-Republican The Press Republican Sun Jan 29, 2012, 02:28 AM EST

LAKE PLACID — Several nonprofits, some of which assisted during and after Tropical Storm Irene, have won grants from Adirondack Community Trust's Special and Urgent Needs Fund.

"It is unusual for us to be able to draw upon the Special and Urgent Needs Fund in this particular way, but, because Irene changed a lot of things for a lot of people and organizations, our board wanted to extend ACT's outreach," Executive Director Cali Brooks said in a press release.

Each group that applied was given funding.

One grant will help buy an emergency generator for the Whallonsburg Grange Hall, which served as a staging facility for the fire department, American Red Cross and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and as an emergency center immediately following Irene.

"A generator will allow the hamlet to continue to use the Grange to provide hot meals, water and as a gathering place for the community in emergencies," a press release said. "The Whallonsburg Civic Association, which manages the Grange, will also install a handicapped-accessible bathroom in the (building)."

CRISIS COUNSELING

Project HOPE, "Helping our Community Come Back from the Flooding," will use its grant to help pay the administrative costs of a crisis-counseling program that sends care providers directly to heavily hit neighborhoods.

It also offers HOPE LINE, a 24/7 phone connection to responsive peers who can help people deal with the disaster-related problems Irene visited upon Essex and Clinton counties.

Project HOPE is a service of the Mental Health Association and funded primarily through FEMA.

The Upper Jay Art Center facility, also known as the Recovery Lounge, is located on the water at the Route 9N bridge.

Irene's flood rushed through the building, sweeping away a collection of property and theatrical supplies it had taken years to build, including essential theater lights and costumes from "True West," "Seascape" and "K2," the release said.

Recovery Lounge had already won a grant through the Jay Irene Flood Relief Fund through Community Trust to help repair damages to the performance space; the new funding will be used to replace the lost properties.

TAHAWUS LODGE

"One of the dramatic images published immediately after the storm was that of the Keene Volunteer Fire Department being ripped apart and swept downstream by raging Gulf Brook," the release continued.

The flooding expanded the riverbed, diminishing the size of the property on which the building was erected in 1960. A Community Trust grant will help pay for a new site and the building that will be built there.

As well, two Essex County farmers whose farms were damaged by the floods were given grants through the Essex County Office of Community Resources.

The Tahawus Lodge Center in AuSable Forks received funding to help repair that building, and grant funding paid for repair to a retaining wall at the Wadhams Free Library.

Adirondack Community Trust manages the Keene Flood Recovery Fund and the Jay Irene Relief Fund, in addition to more than 200 funds.

All its funds welcome new gifts.

Learn more at www.generousact.org or call Brooks at 523-9904.