Sulphur Volunteer Fire Department receives grant for fire station addition

Submitted Photo Pictured in Little Rock when the grant was awarded are: Cassie Elliott, Charlie Orr, ARDC Commissioner Lonnie Turner, Chief John Varner, Governor Mike Beebe, DRS Director John Andrews and ARDC Chair Lynn Hawkins. Not pictured are Senator Jim Hendren and Representative Mary Slinkard.
Submitted Photo Pictured in Little Rock when the grant was awarded are: Cassie Elliott, Charlie Orr, ARDC Commissioner Lonnie Turner, Chief John Varner, Governor Mike Beebe, DRS Director John Andrews and ARDC Chair Lynn Hawkins. Not pictured are Senator Jim Hendren and Representative Mary Slinkard.

LITTLE ROCK -- Governor Mike Beebe and Department of Rural Services director John Andrews presented $166,000.00 to 16 rural communities selected for Fiscal Year 2014 Cycle 2 funding through the Arkansas Rural Community Grant Program at an awards ceremony held at the State Capitol in the Governor's Conference Room on May 1.

In attendance were representatives receiving an Arkansas Rural Fire Protection Grant award on behalf of Sulphur Springs Volunteer Fire Department in Benton County. The city of Sulphur Springs received $12,383 to construct an addition to the fire station.

The Department of Rural Services works in partnership with the Arkansas Rural Development Commission to administer the Arkansas Rural Community Grant Programs in three cycles each year. Incorporated cities and towns and unincorporated communities in rural areas of less than 3,000 in population are eligible to apply for assistance through the mayor or county judge's office.

For more information about the Department of Rural Services and its grant programs, contact Rural Services at 1-888-RURAL-AR.

General News on 05/14/2014