Tobacco barns grant project extended

 

(yourgv.com) Preservation Virginia and JTI Leaf Services have extended the Tobacco Barns Mini-Grants Project for a second year. Applicants can obtain more information and application forms at the question and answer sessions to be held in Halifax, Caswell and Pittsylvania counties in October, according to Preservation Virginia Field Representative Sonja Ingram.
Funded by a grant from JTI Leaf Services, the mini-grants project was formed in 2013 to provide small grants to help stabilize and repair tobacco barns in a three-county region including Halifax County, Caswell County, North Carolina, and Pittsylvania County. 
The first year (2014) of the JTI Mini-Grants Project was well received and heavily supported in the region, Ingram said. Continued