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Gardening Grant helps at the Open Door

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Wednesday, October 01, 2014

A pair of grants from the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources will help improve water resources in Haywood County. State-wide, $2.2 million was given to 37 projects.

The big one for the Haywood County Soil and Water Conservation District was a $23,948 grant to install a cistern at Open Door Ministries, a soup kitchen and outreach center for the needy located at Frog Level in Waynesville. 

“The patrons can reuse the roof water to grow vegetables which can then be used in the kitchen there,” explained Leslie Smathers, director of Haywood County Soil and Water. 

The district also received $1,500 to work on streambank stabilization along Raccoon Creek. 

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