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Chaffee County Commissioners approved $2,448,241 in grant awards to 18 recipients during the Spring 2021 Chaffee Common Ground grant funding cycle. Recommendations by the Citizens Advisory Committee were approved recently.
Twenty applications requesting $2.92 million were received. The grant funding package includes $2,015,600 for forest health and wildfire resilience, $249,640 to sustain rural landscapes, and $183,001 for recreation management that protects watersheds and landscapes in Chaffee County. Matching cash and in-kind funds total $10.5 million.
This marked the third funding cycle since the ballot measure generating Common Ground revenues passed in 2018. To date, more than $5 million has been awarded to 23 local groups and partnerships for 36 programs and projects. Matching investments for these grants will bring $22 million in value to the community by 2026.Â
Beverley John Kirkwood of Nathrop passed away on Feb. 22 in Salida. Â
He was the second son of Arthur Carter Kirkwood and Frances Tucker Kirkwood. B.J. was born Nov. 16, 1928, in Colorado. He grew up in Kansas City, Mo., attended Southwest High School and graduated from MIT in Cambridge, Mass., with a Masterâs Degree in mechanical engineering.
Best of all, in Boston he met Mary Ann Biesterfeldt, daughter of Walter and Mildred Morisseau Biesterfeldt.
They married in her hometown of Kirkwood, Mo., in December, 1949. Working in Chicago at R.R. Donnelley Publishing, they had their first three children. Later, he joined his dad and brother in Kansas City at AC Kirkwood and Associates Engineering.He worked there for nearly 30 years, becoming a much sought-after engineer. They added three more children, raising their family in Prairie Village, Kan.
Beverlyn Lomax Pepper
Beverlyn Lomax Pepper had four great loves: faith, family, friends and flowers. On April 2, 2021, surrounded and sustained by all four, she left this world. She left it immeasurably better for having inhabited it.
Beverlyn was born in the Mississippi Delta town of Greenwood, Mississippi, to Clifton Lamar Lomax and DeLeslyn Morgan Lomax. The genesis of her unusual name (âBeverlyn,â with an ânâ) was her motherâs unusual nameâDeLeslyn. They shared the ân.â (Later, they would share a passion for their professionâteaching elementary school.) Six years after Beverlyn was born, her sister Fay joined the family. While Beverlyn started out in the Greenwood public schools, when World War II came and Cliff went overseas to serve, the family moved to the tiny town of Itta Bena, Mississippi to live with Beverlynâs maternal Grandmother and Grandaddy Morgan.
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