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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 their Downeast community, and Heather was glad to find a rental home to…
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Happy Homeowner Thanks to USDA Home Repair Loan

Delois Dotson of Hardeman County was in need of home repairs that she could not afford. Last year, Dotson heard about USDA Rural Development’s Single Family Housing Repair Loans and Grants program through WBOL Radio Station Representative Johnny Shaw. Shaw invited Dotson and… [Read More]
Housing
Absolutely thrilled with Homeownership!

He Had the Desire To Be A Homeowner

Jay and Darmina Ullrich and their dogs Lady Bird, Annabell, and Miamae had lived in a small rental house in Wilber, Nebraska for about three years.  Jay had always wanted to be a homeowner and even though Darmina didn’t really feel the same and was a little skeptical, she… [Read More]
Homeownership
In 2015 USDA Rural Development invested $40,000 to help a nonprofit purchase a new sport utility vehicle and trailer to transport equipment and personnel.

Health in the Hills

In the medically underserved central Appalachian Mountains a much-needed healthful vehicle has been navigating the winding tree-lined roads since 1980. Known as the Health Wagon, today this mobile health unit visits eleven sites in Virginia’s Buchanan, Dickenson, Russell, Lee,… [Read More]
Health CareCommunity Facilities
Clark Specialty Grains Processing Facility

Helping a Business Grow - From the Start

Clark Specialty Grains, LLC, of Gothenburg is a food grade specialty corn cleaning facility, specializing in non-GMO and organic corn, including blue corn, selling to chip companies across the United States. They needed to refinance their existing real estate and facility debt… [Read More]
Food Supply
Platte Health Center

High Quality Health Care Available in Platte, SD

When a patient’s fever raises suspicion of an infection, when an infection is potentially serious or when problems occur with treatment, an infectious disease specialist is usually called in to help. Working concurrently with the patient’s primary care physician, this specialist… [Read More]
Community FacilitiesGrants
Willis Netzer

Homeownership is Surreal for New Mobridge, S.D. Homeowner

Willis Netzer was living in an apartment  complex that had come under new ownership recently.  He felt that the new owners, in their move to adopt more restrictive policies, were limiting some of his own personal freedoms; thus, he began his search to find a new place… [Read More]
HomeownershipHousing
Having fun in their kitchen

Homeownership Starts Young

Edrissa Jallow moved to the USA from Africa when he was 22 years old to work and to attend Western Nebraska Community College.  While attending college, he met Daniela Duarte and they were later married.  They rented a house and then were   notified of a rent… [Read More]
Homeownership
C.O.R.E @ the Camptonville Academy's new Personalized Learning resource center, overlooking Ellis Lake in Marysville, California.

Homeschooled Students Find a School to Call Home

In Marysville, California, a unique charter school offers a special opportunity to homeschooled students: teachers and classrooms. C.O.R.E. (Community Options for Resources in Education) @ the Camptonville Academy serves 420 students from kindergarten through 12th grade. They… [Read More]
Community Facilities

Hope Comes with USDA Financing

Ron Patton of Holladay, Tennessee has seen more than his share of hard times.  A series of accidents and poor health has left him disabled since 2005.  Since purchasing his home and land in rural Benton County in 2000, it has become more and more difficult for him to… [Read More]
Home Repair

Horse Sense Provides Much Needed Therapy

For Pat Moran, one of the co-founders of Seaview Equine Learning Facility (SELF), helping individuals with many special challenges through equine-assisted therapy only makes sense.  It is also her lifetime passion.  The facility provides unmounted and mounted learning… [Read More]
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