Creating connections with Como's animals, plants and gardens foster appreciation, conservation and preservation. Como will develop and produce fun and educational interactive performances that provide audiences with entertainment and education about animals and their natural behaviors.
This project continues water plan activities from a 2007 Clean Water Legacy grant and initiates a multi‐county project to restore hydrology and water quality in an impaired trout stream.
Kanabec County Soil and Water Conservation District
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$112,265
Source:
Clean Water Fund
This project will be a complete TMDL report for the Biota and Bacteria (E. coli) impairments for the Ann River Watershed. The water bodies associated with these impairments will then be removed from the MPCA’s impaired waters list, and implementation activities to restore the water bodies will begin.
A project of: Lake Agassiz Regional Library Legacy Grant SFY2010 - 2011
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$2,078
Source:
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Anna Dee Olson, author of Growing Up Amishand Leaving the Amish gave a presentation on what her life was like in the Amish community as well as information on the Amish culture.
A direct appropriation of $400,000 in FY 2010 for the Anoka Conservation District (ACD) is for the metropolitan landscape restoration program for water quality and improvement projects in the seven-county metro area.
A project of: Metropolitan Library Service Agency Legacy Grant SFY 2010-11
Source:
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Anoka County Library sponsored a Shakespeare event with Lyric Arts Theater. Lyric Arts provided age appropriate Shakespeare programs for adults and teens. Each program included group discussion, a primer provided by Director Stephen O'Toole on the "As You Like It" production and attendance at the program.
A project of: Metropolitan Library Service Agency Legacy Grant SFY 2010-11
Source:
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Anoka County Library sponsored a series of film themed programs at three county library locations during June through July, 2010. Locations included Rum River Library sponsoring Friday Family Fun Films, Mississippi Branch Library sponsoring Monday Musical Matinees and Columbia Heights Public Library sponsoring Love in the Afternoon Film Fest.
A project of: Metropolitan Library Service Agency Legacy Grant SFY 2010-11
Source:
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Anoka County Library developed six art boxes containing paper, scissors, glue, paints etc. that can be used to extend storytimes or artists presentations. All nine county member libraries are able to request the boxes for their programing needs.
A project of: Metropolitan Library Service Agency Legacy Grant SFY 2010-11
Source:
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Anoka County Library sponsored a session with Minnesota author Julie Kramer at the Northtown Library on February 20, 2010. Kramer met with library program attendees to talk about her award winning mystery series.
A project of: Metropolitan Library Service Agency Legacy Grant SFY 2010-11
Source:
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Anoka County Library sponsored a Fishing Clinic in Coon Rapids on May 1, 2010. The library provided participants with a notebook and pencil to record their fish stories. The project included a "return your story to the library" component where the stories would be made available online. The project was done in cooperation with the Anoka County Parks and Recreation Department.
A project of: Metropolitan Library Service Agency Legacy Grant SFY 2010-11
Source:
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Anoka County Library in cooperation with the Lyric Arts Theater sponsored and presented "Fractured Fairy Tale" workshops in four of our county library buildings. The event was held on March 20, 2010 at Rum River Library and Johnsville Branch Library and on March 27, 2010 in Columbia Heights Public Library and Crooked Lake Branch Library.
A project of: Metropolitan Library Service Agency Legacy Grant SFY 2010-11
Source:
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
The Anoka County Library in cooperation with the Minnesota Historical Society presented three History Player programs (one each month from March 20, 2010 through May 15, 2010) at the Rum River Library. An additional performance with Maud Hart Lovelace has been added due to anticipated audience appeal.
A project of: Metropolitan Library Service Agency Legacy Grant SFY 2010-11
Source:
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Anoka County Library in cooperation with the Anoka County Arts Alliance sponsors a countywide arts event on June 5, 2010.
Our libraries come alive with a wide range of artists, performers and musicians, who show off their talents and artistic skills from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at all nine of our "unquiet" branch locations
A project of: Metropolitan Library Service Agency Legacy Grant SFY 2010-11
Source:
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
In celebration of National Poetry Month (April 2010), Anoka County Library sponsored a series of poetry workshops in select branch libraries in cooperation with the Lyric Arts Theater.
A project of: Metropolitan Library Service Agency Legacy Grant SFY 2010-11
Source:
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Anoka County Library Legacy funds sponsor Tim and Myles Thompson conducting two Nashville music workshops at the Rum River Library on June 7, 2010. One program slated for teens and one for adults.
Great River Greening, Anoka Conservation District and National Wild Turkey Federation
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$1,050,000
Source:
Outdoor Heritage Fund
The Ankoa Sandplain Partnership will restore and enhance 1,352 acres of priority wildlife habitat within the Sandplain and along the Rum River in the east-central Minnesota.
This program will harness the expertise, resources, and connections of a broad community of committed conservation stakeholders to significantly elevate restoration and enhancement of oak savannas (Minnesota’s most critically imperiled habitat), woodlands and forests on public lands across the region.
