🌱 How a $5,000 grant is transforming Erie’s fairgrounds event center

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• How a $5,000 grant is transforming Erie’s fairgrounds event center

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📰 News we're reading

• October 2, 2026 Issue, Page 1 of 13 (chanute.com) — A new $5,000 grant is helping finish the interior walls of Erie’s Neosho Valley Event Center, giving the fairgrounds’ main indoor building a more polished look for local events. Heartland Rural Electric Cooperative’s Concern for Community program funded the project, which supports weddings, reunions, parties, and the annual county fair while reinvesting unused capital credits back into Neosho County.
   

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🗞 Nearby News

Chanute

• October 2, 2026 Issue, Page 8 of 13 (parsonssun.com)
• October 2, 2026 Issue, Page 4 of 13 (chanute.com)
• October 2, 2026 Issue, Page 9 of 13 (chanute.com)

Parsons

• October 2, 2026 Issue, Page 3 of 13 (parsonssun.com)
• Headlines for October 1, 2026 (kmuw.org)

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