A special grant of more than $1 million dollars is going to improve drinking water in a town in Crawford County, Iowa.
Among five grants totaling nearly a combined $5 million in Iowa, the U.S.Department of Agriculture Rural Development agency has awarded $1 million to Denison Municipal Utilities. The money will go to help build a dam on the East Boyer River, which will provide a more consistent water supply.
Denison is a town of almost 10,000 people.
One other grant in the area will be used by the Sioux City NAACP group for a February 17 event celebrating Coretta Scott King at Morningside University.
That $3,000 grant was announced Friday by Humanities Iowa.
That narrated concert will share songs that tell the role of the wife of Martin Luther King Jr. in the civil rights movement that hit a crescendo in the 1960s. Sioux City NAACP President Monique Scarlett will narrate the concert.
