Penticton neighbourhoods will be eligible to receive up to $500 for projects fostering stronger connections between neighbours as the Community Foundation, the City of Penticton and the Vancouver Foundation partner to provide funding. Wikimedia Commons

Community Foundation initiative aims to strengthen neighbourly relations

PENTICTON – The City of Penticton is giving the Community Foundation of the South Okanagan-Similkameen $5,000 toward a fund to help residents pay for neighbourhood events like block parties.

The Foundation's executive director Aaron McRann approached city council with a request to match funds with the organization in order to leverage equal funding from the Vancouver Foundation.

McRann says her group plans to partner with the Vancouver Foundation to provide small grants of $500 or less to Penticton residents for neighbourhood building events such as block parties, neighbourhood cleanups, trail developments or neighbourhood sports programs.

The Vancouver Foundation is expected to match the $10,000 from the local group and the city, providing them with a total of $20,000.

The city use money set aside for mid-year grant requests to provide the funds.

To contact the reporter for this story, email Steve Arstad at sarstad@infonews.ca or call 250-488-3065. To contact the editor, email mjones@infonews.ca or call 250-718-2724.

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Steve Arstad

I have been looking for news in the South Okanagan - SImilkameen for 20 years, having turned a part time lifelong interest into a full time profession. After five years publishing a local newsletter, several years working as a correspondent / stringer for several local newspapers and seven years as editor of a Similkameen weekly newspaper, I joined iNFOnews.ca in 2014. My goal in the news industry has always been to deliver accurate and interesting articles about local people and places. My interest in the profession is life long - from my earliest memories of grade school, I have enjoyed writing.
As an airborne geophysical surveyor I travelled extensively around the globe, conducting helicopter borne mineral surveys.
I also spent several years at an Okanagan Falls based lumber mill, producing glued-wood laminated products.
As a member of the Kaleden community, I have been involved in the Kaleden Volunteer Fire Department for 22 years, and also serve as a trustee on the Kaleden Irrigation District board.
I am currently married to my wife Judy, of 26 years. We are empty-nesters who enjoy living in Kaleden with our Welsh Terrier, Angus, and cat, Tibbs.
Our two daughters, Meagan and Hayley, reside in Richmond and Victoria, respectively.

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