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<br />Town of Maysville Water and Sewer Project
<br />Grantee Town of Maysville
<br />Amount $200,000
<br />Project The purpose of this Golden LEAF grant is
<br />to assist the Town of Maysville with
<br />repairs to the town's wastewater
<br />collection and treatment system that are
<br />required to lift a moratorium so a 10,000
<br />square -foot retail shopping /office plaza
<br />can be developed along Highway 17.
<br />Servicing Jones County
<br />The Town of Salemburg— Economic
<br />Opportunities for the Rural Community
<br />Grantee Town of Salemburg
<br />Amount $175,000
<br />Project The purpose of this Golden LEAF grant is
<br />to assist Salemburg with purchasing
<br />equipment needed to open a grocery
<br />store for the area, which will be leased
<br />and operated by a private entrepreneur.
<br />The project will create 20 new jobs and
<br />result in a new market opportunity for
<br />area farmers. The store is a key piece of
<br />the town's redevelopment plan that will
<br />result in additional jobs creation.
<br />Servicing Sampson County
<br />Developing Our Own Resources:
<br />The D.O.O.R. Initiative
<br />Grantee Town of Scotland Neck
<br />Amount $50,000
<br />Project The purpose of this Golden LEAF grant is
<br />to support Scotland Neck in
<br />implementing an initiative to assist
<br />farmers with transitioning into
<br />alternative agricultural enterprises that
<br />utilize the environmental, natural, and
<br />recreational resources of the area. In
<br />addition, the project will provide training
<br />for farmers interested in starting
<br />ecotourism -based businesses.
<br />Servicing Halifax, Northhampton, Bertie and
<br />Martin Counties
<br />Seagrove Economic Development Project
<br />Grantee Town of Seagrove
<br />Amount $89,000
<br />Project This Golden LEAF grant will assist the
<br />Town of Seagrove with predevelopment
<br />costs to expand the town's sewer system
<br />to accommodate the relocation of
<br />Yankee Commodity Foods (94 new jobs)
<br />and expansion at Wade Technical
<br />Molding (50 new jobs and 24 retained).
<br />Servicing Randolph County
<br />Golden LEAF Scholars Program
<br />Grantee University of North Carolina
<br />Amount $347,500
<br />Project This Golden LEAF grant will be used to
<br />provide a second year of funding for the
<br />Golden LEAF Scholars Program offered
<br />through the University of North Carolina
<br />System Office. Funds will be used to
<br />assist up to 137 students with
<br />scholarships covering UNC tuition and
<br />fees (averaging $2,500) for one year.
<br />Eligible recipients will be students who
<br />res�de in the tobacco dependent or Tier I
<br />counties in the state. Scholarships will be
<br />need and merit based. All public
<br />universities will be eligible to participate
<br />in the scholarship program.
<br />Servicing StAewide
<br />Bioeconomk and Environmental
<br />Suitability 61` Two Asian Oyster Varieties
<br />for Aquaculture in North Carolina
<br />Grantee University of North Carolina
<br />at Chapel Hill
<br />Amount $50,000
<br />Project Funds from this Golden LEAF grant
<br />will be used to collaborate with shell
<br />fisherman throughout eastern NC to
<br />conduct feasibility trials with three non-
<br />native oysters to evaluate their biological
<br />and economical feasibility for widespread
<br />commercial cultivation.
<br />Servicing Jones, Beaufort, Camden, Chowan,
<br />Hyde, Martin, Perquimans, Tyrrell,
<br />Onslow, Pamlico, Dare, Pender and
<br />Craven Counties
<br />Sustainable Solutions to Economic Distress,
<br />Tobacco Dependence, Limited Health Care
<br />Access and the Nursing Shortage: Nursing
<br />Education for Golden LEAF Counties
<br />Grantee University of North Carolina
<br />at Chapel Hill
<br />Amount $200,000
<br />Project This Golden LEAF grant will be used to
<br />assist the School of Nursing to increase
<br />the number of Nurse Practitioners in
<br />tobacco dependent counties by
<br />providing Registered Nurses residing in
<br />these counties with opportunities to earn
<br />graduate nursing degrees from UNC-
<br />Chapel Hill. The program will prepare
<br />RNs for leadership positions as Nurse
<br />Practitioners while they continue to live
<br />and work in their home communities.
<br />The long -term goal is to build the
<br />healthcare infrastructure in rural,
<br />tobacco dependent and economically
<br />distressed counties of the state.
<br />Servicing Alamance, Durham, Edgecombe,
<br />Granville, Halifax, Nash, Vance and
<br />Wilson Counties
<br />Appalachian Food Ventures —A Shared -Use
<br />Value Added Food Processing Center
<br />Grantee Western North Carolina Regional
<br />Economic Development Commission
<br />Amount $350,000
<br />Project Funds from this Golden LEAF grant will
<br />be used to assist with the creation of
<br />Appalachian Food Ventures, a non - profit,
<br />shared use, value -added food processing
<br />center at the Enka Campus of Asheville -
<br />Buncombe Technical Community College.
<br />The project will serve farm -based value
<br />added producers and food entrepreneurs
<br />through access to low -cost processing
<br />facilities, training and specialized services
<br />needed by small businesses to
<br />manufacture, process or add value to
<br />food and agricultural products.
<br />Servicing Buncombe, Haywood, Henderson and
<br />Madison Counties
<br />Growing a Natural Products Industry
<br />in North Carolina— Graham County
<br />Economic Diversification Program, Phase 3
<br />Grantee Yellow Creek Botanical Institute, Inc.
<br />Amount $100,000'
<br />Project The purpose of this Golden LEAF grant
<br />is to assist T4'Yellow Creek Botanical
<br />Institute and its partners in developing a
<br />vertically integrated botanical products
<br />industry in western NC. Funds will be
<br />used to help develop a streamlined supply
<br />of bloodroot for the European market, and
<br />continue providing alternative agribusiness
<br />opportunities to the historically tobacco
<br />dependent region in and around Graham
<br />County. Program implementation will
<br />result in related industry development
<br />across the western region of the state.
<br />Servicing AdvantageWest
<br />three to five years:
<br />+'`A decline in cjgarette pro
<br />to 17 percent
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