The Young America 4-H Club of Cape Girardeau has been awarded a Building Our American Communities Grant from the Missouri Department of Agriculture, Market Development Division.
The $500 grant was used at Nell Holcomb School to build lab areas for an outdoor classroom, a butterfly garden, a sundial, planting a wildlife area.
The grant was one of six awarded in the Southeast district.
The Young Americans 4-H Club has also been awarded an honorable mention in the Colgate-Palmolive Company's "Youth for American Campaign of Community Service." The club was honored for the outdoor classroom labs.
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