(CA) Park groups receive grants to help keep Castle Crags, Ide Adobe open; awards total of $328,586

[XemaSab]

Two north state groups hoping to keep a pair of state parks open got a little closer to that goal this week after the California State Parks Foundation awarded each a sizable grant.

The foundation awarded a total of $328,586 to 13 organizations working to keep state parks open.

The foundation gave $30,000 to Redding-based Innovations Housing to run Castle Crags State Park. The nonprofit group normally handles low-income and sustainable housing projects locally and in East Africa. The Ide Adobe Interpretive Association received $20,000 for Ide Adobe State Historic Park, said Judy Fessenden, association president.

Those organizations applied for and received the grants because they're in negotiations with the state to keep their respective parks open and have demonstrated the ability to run the parks, officials said. The grants are contingent on the state entering into agreements to keep the parks open.

http://www.redding.com/news/2012/may/18/park-groups-receive-grants-to-help-keep-sites/

[ailsagirl]

1. THANK YOU FOR POSTING!!

Castle Crags is my favorite state park, so I was really down when I heard about its closure. This is hopeful news.

[XemaSab]

2. You're welcome!

The parks situation here in California is really depressing. It's nice to hear good news for a change.

[ailsagirl]

3. How did Calif. get into such dire straits anyway?

Oh...that's right. AhNo. Nuff said.

[XemaSab]

4. To be fair

Whatsisface was a symptom of a problem.

I think the real watershed was the Reagan government.

[ailsagirl]

5. Right you are, XemaSab, though

for the last 10+ years, all I can do is loathe the Right. In my way of thinking, these neocons have a bizarre, twisted determination to continue to decimate everything we hold dear. It's as if they've all contracted some terrifying mental disorder and are intent on destroying anything that will improve the quality of our very lives. Our infrastructure is collapsing but they couldn't care less. Well, I could go on and on--you get the picture. How these sick people essentially took over our country boggles the mind. Sorry about the rant (I didn't mean it to be one at the outset) but there is so much fear and uncertainty everythere, I feel as though I'm suffocating.