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| USDA Certifies State Rural Development Council USDA Rural Development Announces Grants To Fund Value-Added Agricultural Projects in Kansas National Rural Development Partnership Council Me Bush Administration Unveils New Job Creating Effort For Rural America
USDA Rural Development State Director Chuck Banks and other local elected officials dedicated the Chisholm Trail Country Store located in Newton on October 13, 2003. The farmer-owned business, which received a $360,000 Rural Development loan through the Sedgwick Electric Cooperative, will provide an outlet for locally grown agricultural commodities to serve regional livestock needs. The funding was provided through the Agency's Rural Economic Development Loan & Grant Program.
USDA Rural Development Awards $1 Million For Value-Added Agriculture Ventures In Kansas Value-Added Agriculture Grant Funding Meetings Held Across Kansas Grants
Available To Repair, Rehab Housing In Northeast Kansas Area
Pictured from left to right are Housing Opportunities, Inc. Executive
Director Vicky Dayton, USDA Rural Development State Director Chuck
Banks, home recipient Jessica Schmidberger, home recipient Amy Arnold
and her son Alex, home recipient Emily Wenke and her daughter Kailee,
Wenke¹s mother Barb Wenke, and USDA Rural Development Community
Development Manager Brandon Prough breaking ground for seven new
houses to be built in Great Bend. Housing Opportunities, Inc., a
non-profit agency located in Great Bend, is administering this project
through Rural Development’s Mutual
Self-Help Housing Program (Photo from Great Bend Tribune)
Value-Added
Grant Program Meetings To Be Held By USDA Rural Development '2003 Listening Tour' Stops Made In Southwest Kansas USDA
Rural Development Announces Economic Development Grants City Of Meriden to Receive $1.2 Million For Wastewater Facilities Improvements USDA Provides $7.5 Million To Improve Electric Services In Kansas Augusta Housing Project Selected For USDA Funding USDA Announces $6 Million in Grants For Rural Economic and Community Development
USDA
Rural Development State Director Chuck Banks (second from right)
participated with future homeowners and Junction City community
leaders in breaking ground for six new homes. Joining with State
Director Banks in the ceremony are (left to right) Brad Gross, Self-Help
Project Manager, Patrick Ryan, homeowner, Christina Bachman, homeowner,
Doug Devin, Self-Help Construction Supervisor, Michael Lovgren,
homeowner, (Banks) and Jennifer Geike, homeowner. Junction City
Self-Help Housing Program is administering this project through
USDA Rural Development's Mutual
Self-Help Housing Program. Sabetha
Hospital Dedicated
USDA
Rural Development Hosts Value-Added Grant Program Workshops USDA Rural Development Announces Storm Shelter Program Funding USDA
Celebrates Home Ownership Month Parsons City Manager Mary Reed (right) and Chuck Banks, Kansas State Director of USDA Rural Development (front center) and Parsons Economic Development Director Carolyn Kennett (front left), reviewing the changes along Main Street, during a tour, before Banks presented the city officials with an award as the agencies "2003 Outstanding Community Partner", for the cities innovative partnership in housing development.
$2.8 MillionFunding for Rural Economic Development Loans Announced USDA Rural Development Officials Tour Tornado Damage Junction
City Housing Project Selected for USDA Rural Development Funding Clara Barton Hospital Dedicated in Hoisington
The City of
Whitewater, USDA Rural Development, and staff of Fourth District
Congressman Todd Tiahrt participated in Earth Day ceremonies with
a check presentation for new wastewater system improvements. USDA
Rural Development RUS
Water and Waste Disposal Loan and Grant provided $1.12 million
funding for this facility. (l-r) Robert Noland, District Director
of Congressman Tiahrt; Dale Yager, USDA Rural Development Specialist;
Pat Ryan, Mayor of Whitewater; Al Reiss, Reiss & Goodness Engineers;
Chuck Banks, USDA Rural Development State Director; Kay Grochowsky
and Kathy Wiebe, City Clerks.
First District Congressman Jerry Moran and USDA Rural Development State Director Chuck Banks participated in the dedication of Multi Community Diversified Services’ (MCDS) new facility in McPherson. USDA Rural Development provided $2.05 million in funding for the MCDS structure, available through USDA Rural Development’s Community Facility program.
Congressman
Jim Ryun spoke to residents of Calvary Crossing Apartments in Ft.
Scott. The USDA Rural Development 515
Rural Rental Housing Program provided funding for this facility.
USDA
Rural Development to Host Energy Forums in Kansas USDA Rural Development Increases Home Loan
Limits USDA Rural Development State Director Chuck Banks joined future homeowners and Larned community leaders in breaking ground for three new houses to be built in this Pawnee County community. Housing Opportunities, Inc., a non-profit agency located in Great Bend, is administering this project through Rural Development’s Mutual Self-Help Housing program.
Bush
Administration Official Outlines USDA Rural Development Priorities
For 2003 Workshops
for Homebuyers to be hosted by USDA Rural Development
USDA Rural
Development awarded East Kansas Agri-Energy a grant of $450,000
to assist with the effort to construct a $36 million ethanol plant
in Garnett. (l-r) USDA Rural Development Specialist Larry Carnahan,
EKAE vice-chairman Roger Brummel, EKAE chairmain Bill Pracht, USDA
Rural Development State Director Chuck Banks, EKAE Director Jim
Westagard, and Gary Smith, USDA Rural Development Director of Community
and Business Programs
USDA Rural Development Announces
$1,380,800 Funding For Pomona Water System USDA
Rural Development Conducts Listening Tour Across Central & Western
Kansas Chuck Banks, State Director for USDA Rural Development, presents a check for $290,610 to Jeff Torluemke, CEO of Western Plains Energy, to assist with start-up costs of a new 30-million gallon ethanol plant near Oakley, Kansas. Also pictured are Larry Carnahan, Don Mense and Gary Smith.
USDA Rural
Development Pledges To Support Production Agriculture In Kansas
New Funding
Opportunities For Broadband Service Announced By USDA Rural Development
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Value-Added
Agriculture Business Dedicated In Newton
Ground
Broken On USDA Rural Development Project In 
USDA
Rural Development Hosts Energy Forums in Emporia and Garden City
Congressman
Ryun Reviews Kansas Rural Development
