Melvern PRIDE earns award
November 15, 2007
Melvern was one of several Kansas communities -- ranging in population from 111 to 6,877 -- that was honored with a Kansas PRIDE Community of Excellence Award at the Kansas PRIDE Day 2007 in Junction City on September 29. Melvern has a population of 426.
The Community of Excellence Award honors communities that take a successful, participatory approach to community improvement.
The PRIDE STAR award signifies an exemplary, single, completed community improvement project during the year. Melvern earned the PRIDE Star award when volunteers organized a community Thanksgiving dinner, which served 750 meals and provided leftovers for a holiday meal to 24 families.
Award recipients received an award plaque and a check for $400 to help fund future community projects.
Information on the Kansas PRIDE Program and community
development opportunities is available at county and district
Extension offices and on the PRIDE website:
www.kansasprideprogram.ksu.edu
Since 1970, the Kansas PRIDE program has helped communities to coordinate and work together, to identify needs, potential resources, and strategies to make local improvements
The statewide PRIDE program is co-administered by the Kansas Department of Commerce, K-State Research and Extension, and private sector companies and associations, which operate in Kansas.
