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Potato House receiving $449,000 provincial funding for heritage restoration, rehabilitation

For years the society has struggled financially
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The Potato House Sustainable Community Society is receiving $449,000 in provincial funding for heritage restoration and rehabilitation. (Angie Mindus photo - Efteen)

It’s no small potatoes.

The Potato House Sustainable Community Society has received $449,000 in provincial funding to restore and rehabilitate the Potato House, one of the oldest structures in Williams Lake.

“We are so excited,” said Amber Gregg, who was recently hired as the society’s grant writer.

“This will be a big, big project. We have foundation issues that we are going to fix.”

Gregg

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Monica Lamb-Yorski

About the Author: Monica Lamb-Yorski

A B.C. gal, I was born in Alert Bay, raised in Nelson, graduated from the University of Winnipeg, and wrote my first-ever article for the Prince Rupert Daily News.
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