Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Grants Announced
March 25, 2004
Contact: Barbara
Allen, Executive Director,
Lewis & Clark Bicentennial in Oregon (LCBO)
(503)
768-7444
or Kyle Jansson, OHC
(503) 986-0673
Salem -- The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department and its Oregon
Heritage Commission in conjunction with the Lewis & Clark Bicentennial
in Oregon organization allocated $300,000 to 23 recipients to support
commemorative projects associated with our nation’s Lewis & Clark
Bicentennial.
Lewis & Clark Bicentennial in Oregon (LCBO), a private, non-profit
501(c)(3) Oregon organization, is the primary planning group for Oregon’s
statewide Bicentennial efforts. LCBO and the Heritage Commission formed
a joint committee to review the 70 grant proposals submitted totaling
over $1.1 million in requested funds.
“We were excited by the variety and richness of the projects
we reviewed, and it wasn’t easy to select the grant awardees,” says
Barbara Allen, executive director of LCBO. “In the end, we put
together a great list of projects that will contribute significantly
to the education and enjoyment of everyone taking part in the commemoration
of the Bicentennial.”
The projects awarded grants are:
- City of Irrigon, $5,000 for the 2005 Lewis & Clark Heritage
Days
- Clatsop-Nehalem Confederated Tribes, $25,000 to fund an ethno-historian
to document the tribes’ history and culture and to develop
interpretive materials
- Friends of the Astoria Column, $10,000
for exterior lighting as part of the Restoration & Enhancement
of Astoria Column & Its
Environs project
- Friends of the Columbia Gorge, $10,000 for production
of Lewis & Clark’s
Excellent Adventure, a series of hikes and kayak trips to introduce
youth to the history, culture, and natural resources of the Gorge
- High
Desert Museum, $10,000 for administrative support in mounting
the exhibition, The Legacy of Lewis & Clark: Exploring the
American West, 1806-2006
- Joseph Elementary School, $4,000 to produce
a teacher’s workshop,
Lewis & Clark Meet the Nez Perce, for tribes and educators
statewide to develop curriculum on tribal history and related
issues
- Lewis & Clark Bicentennial Association, $25,000 for
planning and project management of the National Signature Event
- Lewis & Clark
Bicentennial Association, $25,000 for construction of the Fort
to the Sea Trail at Fort Clatsop
- Lewis & Clark Bicentennial
Association, $20,000 to produce the commemorative signature event
magazine
- LCBO, $25,000 for the Rivers Discovery Project’s
plan to install interpretive signs and improvements at 14 historically
significant
sites concerning Lewis and Clark
- Lewis & Clark College, $10,000
to help fund a speaker’s series
about Lewis and Clark’s journey
- Lewis & Clark Trail Heritage Fund, Oregon Chapter, $5,000
to fund the installation of an interpretive structure at Blue
Lake
Park
- Museum of Warm Springs, $25,000 to mount the exhibit They
Still Speak To Us, a display of historic pictographs of the Gorge
- Oregon
Gardens, $10,000 to install the Lewis & Clark Plant
Collection Garden, including interpretive signs
- Oregon Historical
Society, $10,000 to mount the national Lewis & Clark
exhibit
- Oregon Public Broadcasting, $10,000 to produce 28
educational and historical DVD video segments and lesson plans
to support
their
13-part radio
series New Voices on the Journey: the Lewis & Clark
Expedition
- Portland Art Museum, $10,000 for the upcoming
People of the River Exhibit of regional Native American
art
- Seaside Museum and Historical Society, $2,000 for the
Salt Works exhibit demonstrating the Corps of Discovery’s
method of extracting salt from sea water
- SOLV, $5,000 to
support the administration of the Down
by the Riverside: Lewis & Clark Route clean-up program
- Sustainable
Northwest, $10,000 to mount a forum for their Sustainability
along the Columbia project
- Tamastslikt Cultural
Institute, $24,000 for cultural and language immersion training
sessions for preparation of
opening the
Living Culture Village
- White Bird, $10,000 to support a
performance by the dance troupe, Bandaloop, interpreting the impact
of the Corps’ journey
as part of a day-long Echoes of Discovery event at Cathedral
Park in Portland
- Young Audiences of Oregon, $10,000 to
bring artist/teachers to Title I schools to educate students
about Lewis and
Clark and
tribal history
through a variety of artistic disciplines
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