Tehama County nonprofits awarded grant money after tough year
The McConnell Fund is giving a total of $154,399 split between five different groups in Tehama.
Posted: Jun 2, 2021 7:30 PM
Posted By: Tori Apodaca
RED BLUFF, Calif. - Tehama County nonprofits and public entities are receiving a total of $154,399 in grants from the McConnell Fund at the Community Foundation at the North State.
This year they saw a record-breaking amount of people applying for the McConnell grant due to the pandemic.
The City of Red Bluff Parks and Recreation Department was one of the groups awarded a grant of $32,699.
They are going to be using the funds to give the train in Diamond Park a complete makeover.
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Teyanna Mackay, an 18-year-old graduating senior at Enterprise High School, is thinking about what she will study in college.
She hasn t made up her mind whether it will be business, marketing or education. She just knows she wants to give back to her community. To enrich people s lives the way they have enriched hers, she said.
Mackay s good grades, hard work and community service helped her earn a scholarship from the McConnell Foundation to pay her way through university.
That makes her part of an elite group of North State students. Only 30% of students who apply to the scholarship program are accepted, said David Tanner, the senior program officer of scholarships and higher education at the McConnell Foundation. And over 90% of the students who are accepted, graduate, he said.
More affordable housing in downtown Redding should be move-in ready by late 2022.
As part of the $111 million Block 7 project along California Street, construction of 78 affordable apartments in three buildings has started, McConnell Foundation Chief Operating Officer Shannon Phillips said.
The one- and two-bedroom units will range from 680 square feet to 880 square feet. Phillips said rents will be based on mixed-income rates from 30% to 80% of the area’s median income.
The 78 units will complement the 84 affordable apartments that opened late last year in Market Center along the re-opened Market Street in downtown. The Market Center apartments are fully leased out.
The apartments also are being built at a time when the demand for housing in the area continues to rise, buoyed by the fallout from the 2018 Carr Fire and the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Foundation and framing work on the $4.5 million bike depot, café and outdoor courtyard on the southwest corner of California and Shasta streets started this week.
The Bell Plaza project is the McConnell Foundation’s latest investment in downtown Redding.
The foundation also is partnering with K2 Development and the city of Redding on the $111 million Block 7, a mixed-used development of commercial, education, office and retail buildings on the former California Street parking garage property. The price tag also includes the street improvements and traffic circulation.
Work on Block 7 s first phase, a new, six-story parking garage started late last year.
Sacramento River Rail Trail improvement projects require temporary closures
REDDING, Calif. – Crews from the Bureau of Land Management will be repairing fire damage and constructing fuel breaks along sections of the Sacramento River Rail Trail, requiring temporary closures on weekdays, from 6 a.m. until 5 p.m., now through May 21.
The first temporary closures are affecting the trail segment from the Rock Creek Trailhead to the Keswick Boat Launch through the week of May 3. A second access restriction will last 10 days, from May 10 to May 21, on the trail segment between the Keswick Dam Trailhead and the Rock Creek Trailhead.
The trail will be accessible all day on Saturdays and Sundays.