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| USDA Rural Development Testifies Before Kansas Legislative Energy Committee Ribbon
Cutting - Open House Held At Fort Riley Office (front row) Cathryn, Ethan, and Shane Warren cut the ribbon to open the USDA Rural Development Fort Riley Office as (back row from left) 1st District U.S. Congressman Jerry Moran, Major General Dennis E. Hardy, Commanding General 24th Infantry Division (Mechanized) and Fort Riley, and USDA Rural Development State Director Chuck Banks look on. Photo courtesy of Fort Riley Post USDA Rural Development Opens Fort Riley Office USDA
Approves Lenders For Fort Riley Regional Initiative Area financial institutions participated in special Agency training for the lenders to help support expanding homeownership opportunities in rural communities impacted by the planned military and civilian personnel expansion at Fort Riley.
‘Built
by the community for the community'
USDA Rural Development funding assisted unincorporated Franklin, Kansas with this community center after a tornado destroyed the previous facility.
‘Let’s
Help’ of Topeka and USDA Rural Development Partnering
To Assist Hurricane Survivors State
Director Chuck Banks welcomes USDA staff and property managers
at the Hurrican Relief Initiative Housing Fair held
in Topeka. Let's Help and USDA Rural Development joined in
a partnership between the two organizations to assist the housing
needs of Hurrican Katrina and Rita evacuees living in northeast
Kansas.
USDA Rural Development Announces Grants to Fund Value-Added Agricultural Projects in Kansas $120,000 Funding For Housing Preservation Grants Announced By USDA Rural Development USDA Rural Development Joins Mid-Kansas Community Action Program To Celebrate New Location $250,000 Funding For Rural Business Enterprise Projects Announced By USDA Rural Development USDA
Completes First Round of Ft. Riley Regional Initiative
Meetings Six
Families Complete Self-Help Homes in Junction City State Director Chuck Banks helps with the ribbon cutting celebration for six families that have completed their homes in Junction City, funded through USDA Rural Development's Mutual Self-Help Housing Program, administered by Self-Help Housing of Junction City, the Agency's technical assistance partner. USDA
/ Ft. Riley Regional Initiative Meeting Held In Abilene USDA
/ Ft. Riley Regional Initiative Meeting Held In Clay
Center USDA Rural Development To Host Ft. Riley Regional Initiative Program Meetings $742,000 USDA Rural Development Loan Assists New Ft. Scott Theater SEK-CAP Transportation Facility Dedicated Ft.
Riley and USDA Rural Development Sign Memorandum of Agreement
USDA
Rural Development Honors Kansas Homeownership Partners (left to right) Andy Jetter, President and CEO of FHLBank Topeka; Chuck Banks, USDA Rural Development State Director; Gilda Lintz, U.S. Senator Pat Roberts District Director; and Gilbert Gonzalez, USDA Rural Development Acting Under Secretary. FHLBank Topeka was honored as a 'Special Homeownership Partner' by USDA Rural Development, a result of the lender's participation in the Kansas Rural Home Loan Partnership, as well as its other commitments to the Agency's loan programs.
Western Cooperative Electric Assn., Inc. Receives Funding Approval Junction City Recognized For Participation In USDA Rural Development Housing Programs Blue Valley Telecommunications, Inc. Receives Funding Approval Mennonite Housing Rehabilitation Services Receives USDA Recognition USDA Rural Development Recognizes Local Lender Partnerships Community Facility Funding Available From USDA Rural Development Local Home Repair Programs Announced USDA
Rural Development Awards Funding to East Kansas Agri-Energy (left to right)
William Pracht, Director and Chairman/President of East Kansas
Agri-Energy accepts a ceremonial check in the amount of $5 million
from USDA Rural Development State Director Chuck Banks and U.S.
Congressman Jim Ryun. USDA Rural Development's Business & Industry
Guaranteed Loan will assist with the effort to construct
a 35 million gallon per year ethanol plant in Garnett.
Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital, Inc. Breaks Ground for Expansion And Updates USDA Rural Housing Administrator Tours Kansas Projects
State
Director Chuck Banks (left) joined Margaret Snipes, along with
USDA Rural Housing Administrator Russell Davis and Mike Zamrzla,
Constituent Services Representative from the Office of Congressman
Jerry Moran, during the tour of recently finished homes funded
through the Agency's Mutual
Self-Help Housing Program. Ms.Snipes was one of the
five families
participating in the mutual self-help project which performed
approximately 65 percent of the construction labor on each other's
homes under qualified supervision. USDA Rural Development Announces Availability Of Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Program Grants Mennonite
Housing Services Awarded Funding
Housing Preservation Grants Offered By USDA Rural Development Kansas
Economic Development Funding Announced $3.34 Million Funding For Kansas Water Projects Approved USDA Rural Development Tours Ft. Scott Fire Damage Shawnee County Rural Fire District #4 Breaks Ground for New Fire Station (left to right) Doug Clary, USDA Rural Development Area Specialist, Manhattan; State Director Chuck Banks; Fire Chief Bill Ossmann, RFD#4; and Nathan Rewerts, RWD#4 Board Member during the ground breaking ceremony for the Districts' new fire station. USDA Rural Development is providing a $560,000 Community Facility Program loan through the Agency's First Responder Initiative to finance the new fire station, which will directly serve nearly 2,000 Shawnee County residents. Housing Program Applicants Sought By USDA Rural Development USDA
Rural Utilities Service Announces Distance Learning and Telemedicine
Grant Opportunity State Director Chuck Banks joined six families during ground breaking for the first set of 18 new homes planned to be constructed under a new technical assistance grant in the amount of $270,000 with Self-Help Housing of Junction City, Funding was provided through the Agency's Mutual Self-Help Housing Program. New Funding Source Available For Rural Economic Development USDA Rural Development Recognizes Kansas Partnerships Ground Broken On Great Bend Housing Project $450,000
Ceremonial Check Presented to Seneca Manufacturing Business
USDA Rural
Development State Director Chuck Banks (right) and Gary Smith,
USDA Rural Development Business and Community Programs Director
(left) present Cherie Frazee, with a ceremonial check for $6,935.00,
for energy efficiency improvements planned for the store. Funding
was provided by the USDA Rural Development Renewable
Energy & Energy Efficiency Program. $2.6
Million Funding Assistance For Chase County Detention Center
And Courthouse Improvements State Director
Chuck Banks presents a ceremonial check totaling $2.6 million
in funds to assist in the financing of the County's new detention
center and improvements to the Courhouse under the Agency's Community
Facility Program. Ed Griffin, Chase County Commission
Chairman, accepted the check on behalf of the attending county
commissioners and local dignitaries.
Rose
Hill Business Receives Energy Efficiency Improvement Funding (left to right) State Director Chuck Banks presented Toni and Tim Voegeli of T & T Foods a ceremonial check totaling $11,000.00 in funding for energy efficiency improvements planned for the company's Apple Market stores located in Augusta and Rose Hill, under the Agency's Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Program.
USDA Rural Development Announces Record Funding For Kansas Mutual
Self-Helf Housing Project Dedicated
in Valley Center
$6.5 Million Loan To Increase Rural Access To Hi-Speed Internet Technology In Kansas |
Newspaper
Articles: 
(right
to left) USDA Rural Development State Director Chuck
Banks is joined by U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, USDA Rural
Development Acting Under Secretary Gilbert Gonzalez,
1st District U.S. Congressman Jerry Moran, and Major
General Dennis E. Hardy, Commanding General 24th Infantry
Division (Mechanized) and Fort Riley, during the announcement
of $25 million in lending assistance to help finance
affordable housing in the Ft. Riley area. 
(left
to right) Riley Scott, Office of U.S. Senator Sam Brownback;
Esther Prince, Mennonite Housing Rehabilitation Services,
Inc., Self-Help Coordinator; Andy Bias, Mennonite Housing
Rehabilitation Services, Inc., President & CEO; Chuck
Banks, USDA Rural Development State Director; Julie Peterman,
USDA Rural Development, Rural Development Manager during
the ceremonial check presentation to Mennonite Housing
Rehabilitation Services, Inc. for a $354,000 Technical
Assistance Grant provided through the Agency's 
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USDA
Rural Development State Director Chuck Banks and Rural Development
staff, joined six families who have just completed building their homes
in dedication ceremonies by participating in the Agency's Mutual Self-Help
Housing Program. Also present for the ceremony were officials from
Mennonite Housing Rehabilitation Services, Inc. of Wichita, USDA Rural
Development's technical assistance partner for the Mutual Self-Help
Housing Program in south-central Kansas.