{"id":118548,"date":"2023-05-18T22:26:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T02:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=118548"},"modified":"2023-05-18T22:28:39","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T02:28:39","slug":"announcement-of-recipients-of-the-2022-23-senior-community-center-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=118548","title":{"rendered":"Announcement of Recipients of the 2022-23 Senior Community Center Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>County Executive Lamont G. McClure, Pennsylvania Secretary of Aging Jason Kavulich, along with officials from the Northampton County Area Agency on Aging Department, are pleased to announce two senior centers in Northampton County are recipients of the Pennsylvania Department of Aging\u2019s 2022-23 Senior Community Center Grants.<\/p>\n<p>The Oliver C. Border House in Nazareth is receiving $119,250, and the Silver Connection Easton Area Community Center is receiving $70,938. The awards will be used for Capital Improvements and Renovations. \u201cSenior centers are vital to our older residents. The grants will help our senior centers fund essential projects to upgrade their facilities,\u201d says Lamont G. McClure. \u201cSeniors will see new kitchen and restroom renovations, flooring, and activity supplies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Pennsylvania Department of Aging received $7 million in requests for this year\u2019s Senior Community Center Grant program. The Department has awarded a total of $2 million in grants to 48 Senior Community Centers throughout the Commonwealth. The funding was appropriated by the General Assembly from the Pennsylvania Lottery.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nCounty of Northampton<br \/>\n669 Washington Street<br \/>\nEaston, PA 18042<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.northamptoncounty.org\/\">https:\/\/www.northamptoncounty.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>County Executive Lamont G. McClure, Pennsylvania Secretary of Aging Jason Kavulich, along with officials from the Northampton County Area Agency on Aging Department, are pleased to announce two senior centers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=118548\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Announcement of Recipients of the 2022-23 Senior Community Center Grants<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,5738],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-northampton-county"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Northampton-county-.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/113014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}