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Success Stories

A mother and three daughters pose around a dining room table. There are lace curtains and blue wall in the background and some dishes on the table in the foreground.

“This is Home” – A Family Finds Their Forever Home in Calais, Maine

One of the first rooms Heather Gagne and her daughters began redecorating in their new home is the dining room, shown in the top photo. They have been busy repainting and making other updates. Raising a family in coastal Machias, Maine may sound lovely, but for Heather Gagne recent years proved stressful. There were few housing options in the Downeast community, and Heather was glad to find a rental home to…
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USDA Rural Development Funds New Mental Health Facility

USDA Rural Development Funds New Mental Health Facility  The United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development is improving the lives of the residents of LaPorte County and surrounding counties by presenting a $2,000,000 USDA Rural Development Guaranteed Community… [Read More]
Indiana
Community Facilities
Fire station in Gilbert, Iowa

USDA Rural Development Helps City of Gilbert Celebrate Groundbreaking for Fire Station and Multi-Purpose Building

May 16, 2014 - Staff from USDA Rural Development today participated in a groundbreaking ceremony for a new multi-purpose facility in Gilbert.  The building will house a new fire station, as well as city offices and a community room. USDA Rural Development is providing a $1… [Read More]
Iowa
Community Facilities

USDA Rural Development’s Program Provides Injection for New Hospital

USDA Rural Development was on hand September 27, 2013, in Tell City, Indiana during a ground breaking ceremony for the new Perry County Hospital.  Utilizing an $40,000,000 Community Facility Direct Loan, Perry County Memorial Hospital has begun construction of an… [Read More]
Indiana
Community Facilities
Bethany Lutheran Home for the Aged LLC

USDA Supported Project Helps South Dakota Seniors Improve Their Quality of Life

Brandon, South Dakota, with a population of about 9,000, has seen significant growth in the last decade, including the area of senior care. There are two assisted living communities in Brandon, but there has never been a nursing home. This has put strain on both patients and… [Read More]
South Dakota
Community Facilities
Davey's new retention lagoon

Village of Davey Gets New Lagoons

  Davey’s lagoons were almost 50 years old and needed to be updated as they were out of compliance with the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality (NDEQ) E. coli limits. There was also a new NDEQ discharge limit for ammonia which was included.  The Village of… [Read More]
Nebraska
Community FacilitiesWastewaterWater
Renovated space at West Holt Memorial Hospital.

West Holt Medical Services Upgrades Facility

West Holt Memorial Hospital is a 17 bed Critical Access Hospital. West Holt Medical Services includes the hospital, two clinics, and four providers. Many portions of this hospital have not been renovated since the 1970s.  A USDA Rural Development loan of $1,294,500 was used… [Read More]
Nebraska
Community Facilities
Winyan Toka Win Garden

Winyan Toka Win Garden Evolves Into Micro Farm

When the Cheyenne River Youth Project® (CRYP) first began its organic garden in 1999, staff members at the 26-year-old, not-for-profit youth organization scarcely could have imagined where that little garden would take them. Now, 16 years later, the thriving 2-acre Winyan Toka… [Read More]
South Dakota
Community Facilities
Webster's Fire Hall

Infrastructure Shelters Equipment and Provides Enhanced Training Opportunities

Rural communities need volunteers to thrive and help provide services larger municipalities offer through paid personnel, such as a fire department. The volunteer fire department in Webster, SD, understands this need and the facilities and training needed in order to respond to… [Read More]
South Dakota
Community Facilities
East Point Academy

New School to Serve Nearly 550 Students

Rural Development funds were used to purchase and renovate an existing school facility and for expansion of the Elementary School’s campus. An existing building, on Leaphart Street, was purchased and repurposed as the Middle School campus for grades 6th through 8th. Facility… [Read More]
South Carolina
Community Facilities
Pine Ridge EMT Photo

Enhanced Fire Protection Service is Essential for the Pine Ridge Reservation

Founded in 1885, the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology (SD Mines) is a public institution of higher learning in Rapid City, South Dakota. Through a USDA Rural Development Community Facility Technical Assistance and Training grant, SD Mines has partnered with Banner… [Read More]
South Dakota
Community Facilities

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