Fifty Area Projects Split About $100,000 In Mini Grants From Riverboat Foundation

Larchwood, Iowa — Fifty projects from around the tri-state area have won grants of up to $2000 from the Lyon County Riverboat Foundation in their annual mini-grant giveaway, held Tuesday night, April 20th at Grand Falls Casino and Golf Resort.

According to the foundation board’s president, Jerry Keizer the foundation received 89 applications and 50 of them were chosen at random to receive funding, for a total of about $100,000 in funding.

The projects are from many different communities both in and outside of Lyon County. Several are from Sioux Falls, there are some from southwest Minnesota, and some from other counties in northwest Iowa.

Most of the projects requested the full $2000, but some did not. Some of the projects closest to Sheldon included Northwest Iowa Community College for a project called “Nursing Assimilation;” the George Community Foundation for a project called “Large Print;” the George-Little Rock School District for softball supplies; the George-Little Rock Athletic Boosters for the GLR Huddle Program, which was an $1800 grant; George Kiwanis for playground equipment; the Sibley VFW Post 7373 for Kitchen Plumbing; the Hawkeye Point Foundation for signage; the Sibley Library for a Linear Imager; Bright Beginnings of Osceola County for Playground Shade; the 4-H Foundation of Osceola County for Summer Camps; the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office for Light Bars; and the Sibley McCallum Museum to replace gutters.

Several more projects were funded as well. The full list can be seen below.

The Lyon County Riverboat Foundation is the non-profit license holder for Grand Falls Casino & Golf Resort near Larchwood. As such it receives a certain portion of the casino’s take, which it gives out in grants to government subdivisions and to non-profit projects.