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Recipient
Anoka County Fair
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,783

To provide comedy ventriloquism and variety marionette shows and provide accompanying workshops on the construction and use of sock puppets. Puppets are a powerful way of bringing story to life and appeal to adults and children alike. The show will stimulate imagination and allow children to learn through play.

Anoka
Recipient
Renville County Agricultural Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,368

To improve the floor in the arts open class building to make the area handicap accessible, and install track lighting above art displays.

Renville
Recipient
Dakota County Agriculture Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$50,000

To restore several Dakota City building exteriors on the fairgrounds, in collaboration with Dakota City Heritage Village. These local structures that portray a 1900 era rural village include the 1867 Vermillion Presbyterian Church, the belfry of the District 96 one room school, and the 1861 frame structure that was originally built as a school and most recently used as the millinery and dressmaker’s shop.

Dakota
Recipient
Anoka County Fair
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,680

We have an old farm house that the Anoka County Historical society uses during the fair to demonstrate what it was like to live in the early 1900's. It is in need of some restoration. The first thing we are going to do is rebuild the entire front porch. That includes floor, railing, painting and possibly needing structural support underneath.

Anoka
Recipient
Fillmore County Fair
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,680

We are going to have a different balloon artist this year. We are inviting a southeast Minnesota resident to perform for our youth. We will also have The Red Letter Band, an inspirational country music band. They perform a variety of classic county hits and have prize giveaways for crowd participation. They provide a nostalgic opportunity to listen to music that all will enjoy.

Fillmore
Recipient
Renville County Fair
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,680

The Legacy Grant funds will be used to enrich our guests with entertaining learning experiences. Funds will be used for all guests to learn a bit more of our history with a presentation by Rob Fairbanks, a Native American who motivates as he speaks to groups and teaches them of his life on the reservation and his ancestors way of life and how it relates today.

Renville
Recipient
Sibley County Fair
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,680

Our legacy project will be free stage presentations throughout the fair August 2-6, 2023. We will have a mixture of Minnesota bands and youth education with a raptor presentation.

Sibley
Recipient
Dakota County Fair
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,680

We would like to have our local blacksmith's guild members give demonstrations throughout the week of our fair in the blacksmith shop located in our Heritage Village on the fairgrounds. We could get many demonstrators to demonstrate the equipment that we have in our heritage village buildings such as spinning, weaving, quilting, and cooking. We also may have an opportunity to have a threshing demonstration by the local machinery men that meet here in Dakota County. We hope to contract a chainsaw artist and/or the Paul Bunyan Live show to have here the week of the fair.

Dakota
Recipient
Anoka County Fair
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,755

We have a thrashing show that performs during the fair. We want to hire the Rum River Art Center to put on some art classes/projects.

Anoka
Recipient
Dakota County Fair
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,755

The chainsaw artist would be able to give many demonstrations throughout the week of the fair. We will contract the Lumberjack show for all seven days of the fair and have lumberjack camps and shows. We will have scheduled three shows a day.

Dakota
Recipient
Fillmore County Fair
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,755

We will have a totally new experience for one of our afternoon events for the youth at the Fillmore County Fair this year. We plan to bring "Emotion in Motion," a mobile splatter paint experience to our fair. This will be a fully immersive artistic experience, that is easy and fun for youth. When finished they will have an original splatter painting for their walls. We try to incorporate new things each year at the fair to accompany the traditional events that fairgoers expect.

Fillmore
Recipient
Renville County Fair
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,755

The farming of lumber is a huge part of Minnesota history. In fact the towns of Bemidji, Akeley, and Brainerd, Minnesota have each boasted themselves the birth place of the famous Paul Bunyan. It is our goal to remind community members of this rich Minnesotan tradition of tree falling by having a demonstration of lumberjacks (a free event) at the fair this year. At the end of the lumberjack event there will be time for kids to do hands-on learning and training of how our ancestors worked with wood, not only to build homes but to create a living.

Renville
Recipient
Sibley County Fair
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,755

This year we are looking to provide entertainment at our fair with local Minnesota bands.

Sibley
Recipient
Dakota County Agriculture Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,800

To upgrade and replace display cases for 4-H. The Dakota County Agricultural Society has enhanced the display capability for the 4-H program to improve viewing and safety.

Dakota
Recipient
Dakota County Agriculture Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,783

To enhance fairgoers ability to view art work of local 4-H members by upgrading and replacing display cases.

Dakota
Recipient
Dakota County Agricultural Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$12,000

To provide programming that tells the story of Dakota County's 160 years of settlement, Minnesota history and cultural traditions, through an entertaining tent show that combines story telling and original music. The show will be reminiscent of the 1900s era Chautauqua programs. It will be performed daily in the tent at Dakota City Heritage Village.

Dakota
Recipient
Fillmore County Fair
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,650

To provide children an opportunity to see a puppet show with a theme to protect the planet and environment.

Fillmore
Recipient
Fillmore County Fair
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,783

To offer new arts and cultural heritage programming at the Fillmore County Fair. Funds will be used to install a historical exhibit, host a bluegrass performance, and being a project that documents fairgoers experiences through interviews and photos. The project is meant to bridge the past and the future by helping local community members appreciate local history and share their own story for generations to come.

Fillmore
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,000
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,000
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000
Fund Source

Funding supports an Irrigation Specialist to develop guidance and provide education on irrigation and nitrogenbest management practices (BMPs). In this position, Dr. Vasu Sharma provides direct support to irrigators onissues of irrigation scheduling and soil water monitoring. She is collaborating on the development of new irrigationscheduling tools that help irrigators manage water and nitrogen resources more precisely. These tools help reducenitrogen leaching losses in irrigated cropping systems.

Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Cass
Chippewa
Clay
Crow Wing
Dakota
Douglas
Goodhue
Grant
Hubbard
Isanti
Kandiyohi
Kittson
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Marshall
Meeker
Morrison
Mower
Norman
Otter Tail
Pipestone
Polk
Pope
Red Lake
Renville
Rice
Sherburne
Stearns
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Wabasha
Wadena
Washington
Watonwan
Wright
Recipient
Minnesota Department of Health
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$105,000
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$105,000
Fund Source

The Lake Superior Beach Monitoring and Notification Program exists to test recreational beach water and notify the public if bacteria levels become unsafe. This project will expand the Beach Program to include additional outreach efforts, sanitary surveys and testing of new technologies to improve the Beach Program. Monitoring results will be used to inform the public, find the sources of bacterial contamination and address polluted runoff from improper waste disposal.

Cook
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
Minnesota Department of Agriculture
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,000

Native to the western United States and Canada, mountain pine beetle is considered the most devastating forest insect in North America. Trees usually die as a result of infestation and an unprecedented outbreak in the west is currently decimating pine forests there. While mountain pine beetle is not presently believed to reside in Minnesota, there are risks posed by an expanding species range resulting from warming climate and the potential for accidental introduction via lumber imports from infested areas.

Aitkin
Anoka
Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Carlton
Cass
Chisago
Clearwater
Cook
Crow Wing
Fillmore
Houston
Hubbard
Isanti
Itasca
Kanabec
Kittson
Koochiching
Lake
Lake of the Woods
Mahnomen
Marshall
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Mower
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pine
Polk
Ramsey
Roseau
Sherburne
St. Louis
Stearns
Todd
Wabasha
Wadena
Washington
Winona
Recipient
Anoka County Agricultural Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,368

To provide needed repairs to a historical building, the Old Church, on the Anoka County fairgrounds. Over 100 years old, the Old Church is also home to the Anoka County Arts Alliance during the week of the fair. The mission of the Anoka County Arts Alliance is to identify, provide support for, and promote the activities of the Anoka County arts community.

Anoka
Recipient
City of Apple Valley
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source

PCSI wells, tanks, SSTS

Dakota
Recipient
City of Farmington
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source

PCSI wells, SSTS and public ed.

Dakota
Recipient
City of Hastings
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,500
Fund Source

Support finding and sealing well 1

Dakota
Recipient
Dakota County Agricultural Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,368

To purchase a portable stage to increase Dakota County Fair's capacity to host arts and cultural heritage programming.

Dakota
Recipient
Renville County Agricultural Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,783

To offer new arts demonstrations at the Renville County Fair. Programming will include a performance by an educational vocal band, and demonstrations by an artist specializing in Chinese calligraphy.

Renville
Recipient
Renville CountyAgricultural Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,380

To bring new arts and cultural heritage programming to the Renville County Fair. Programming included a performance by the Red Tree Singers, a Native American group, and Kid Power, an interactive kids’ program. Funds were also used to commission a local artist to paint a mural depicting local agriculture and history.

Renville
Recipient
Multiple public water systems
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$113,000
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
Fund Source

Approximately 70 percent of all Minnesotans rely on groundwater as their primary source of drinking water. Wells used for drinking water must be properly sealed when removed from service to protect both public health and Minnesota’s invaluable groundwater resources. The Minnesota Department of Health protects both public health and groundwater by assuring the proper sealing of unused wells.
Clean Water funds are being provided to well owners as a 50% cost-share assistance for sealing unused public water-supply wells.

Anoka
Beltrami
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Cook
Crow Wing
Dakota
Dodge
Faribault
Fillmore
Hennepin
Lyon
McLeod
Morrison
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Sherburne
Sibley
St. Louis
Stearns
Steele
Swift
Todd
Waseca
Washington
Watonwan
Winona
Wright
Recipient
Sibley County Agricultural Association
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,368

To recognize outstanding senior citizens in Sibley County. Attendees can listen to a polka band and watch the awards ceremony. Funds will also be used to upgrade stage lighting and install a sound system to enhance the programming.
Additionally, funds will enhance the fine arts exhibits in the Horticulture Building. Upgraded lighting and new display cases will improve the visibility of photography, quilt and needlework entries.

Sibley
Recipient
Sibley County Agricultural Association
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$50,000

To construct an Arts and Heritage Center on the fair grounds. The Sibley County Fair will erect an Arts and Heritage Center with a 40 foot stage and two dressing rooms. The building will primarily serve as an educational arts and culture center for the fair. The fair will present acts on the stage from six to eight hours per day during the fair.

Sibley
Recipient
Sibley County Agricultural Association
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,783

To rehabilitate the original horse racing judges’ stand. The stand is the last relic of the 143 year old fair grounds and dates back to the late 1800’s. The stand is comprised of a first story entry and refreshment area, and an upper section for judging the races. It’s 360 degree observation of the track was made possible by its hexagon shape and large doors that could be lifted when needed on each side. This is the first stage of the multi-year restoration of this prized building and is an important part of the plan to initiate a daily educational program at the fair.

Sibley
Recipient
City of Coon Rapids
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,204
Fund Source

Educate well owners on the proper operation and maintenance of their wells, prepare and send letter to owners of properties in moderate and high vulnerability portions of the DWSMA and educate property owners in the DWSMA on issues related to source water

Anoka
Recipient
City of Chatfield
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,773
Fund Source

Seal well at Shady Oak Park and install a new security door on well house for well #2

Fillmore
Recipient
City of Gaylord
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,359
Fund Source

Purchase and install fuel containment tank for fuel tank

Sibley
Recipient
City of Rosemount
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,048
Fund Source

Field reconnaissance, well evaluation and efficiency calculations.

Dakota
Recipient
City of Blaine
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,062
Fund Source

Update PCSI locations

Anoka
Recipient
City of Sacred Heart
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,000
Fund Source

Remove old doors, purchase and install new doors at Treatment Plant. Locate and determine sealing status of wells.

Renville
Recipient
City of Circle Pines
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,264
Fund Source

Assist 10-16 homeowners with sealing their wells.

Anoka
Recipient
Sawbill Canoe Outfitters
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source

Replace Septic System

Cook