Carbondale's Eurma C. Hayes Center is another step closer to opening its doors again.
he State Farm Neighborhood Assist program awards twenty-five thousand dollars to forty nonprofit organizations for improvement projects across the country.
One of those winners is the Eurma C. Hayes center which had to shut its doors more than two years ago because the HVAC system needed to be replaced.
Executive director Bob Wills says this is a big relief because funding has been scarce.
“The boards continued to use money, all personal money to keep it going. And we've used up something like 30 some thousand dollars of personal money buying paint, buying flooring paying people that don't all those things now at this point, we will be able to shut that part down.”
Carbondale's City Council also voted to give the center four hundred and fifty thousand dollars funded from the American Rescue Plan Act to help cover the repairs.
For WSIU I’m Benjy Jeffords.
