friends of fairgrounds receive $1500 grant

Northwest Farm Credit Services awarded a $1,500 Northwest FCS Rural Community Grant to Columbia County Friends of the Fairgrounds to help with the installation of a professionally engineered indoor arena footing. In 2018, Northwest Farm Credit Services committed over $297,000 to 187 projects in rural communities across Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington, according to a press release submitted to The Times. The next rural grant deadline is Feb. 1, 2019. Visit northwestfcs.com/Stewardship/Rural-Communities for more information and an application.

The Friends of the Fairgrounds will hold their...