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Local Parks Helped by Grants

Eureka and Wildwood were each awarded more than $230,000 in grant money to develop Lions and Packwood parks.

Eureka and Wildwood city representatives each won more than $200,000 in grant money last month to improve local parks.

will dedicate its $232,000 to demolish the concession stand in and build a new, larger one — complete with bathrooms and concrete walkways.

won $285,000 to build the 12,400-foot Packwood Park Nature Trail and to develop the 11-acre area around it.

The grant comes from the Municipal Parks Grant Commission, which awarded $3 million in grants to 18 municipalities in the St. Louis region, at a time when .


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