Friends of Grand Island Parks receives landscape funds

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (Press Release) - The 2022 Greener Towns program recently awarded landscape funding to 11 projects in 7 communities in Nebraska....

November 18, 2022
1:22 AM

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (Press Release) - The 2022 Greener Towns program recently awarded landscape funding to 11 projects in 7 communities in Nebraska. Friends of Grand Island Parks is one of the recipients of funding for efforts that improve local green infrastructure for pollinator habitat, manage stormwater or accomplish other economic, environmental, aesthetic and social goals.Friends of Grand Island Parks applied for the funds and will coordinate the planting of the project in 2023. Vikki Deuel said the goal for this project is that of ''Restoring the Glory of Historic Stolley Garden' to honor William Stolley, an 1857 immigrant to Grand Island's settlement.

Michelle Derusha