The following grants were approved by the PCA General Membership at the April general membership meeting:

1) A $700 grant was awarded to the Hillcrest/PCA partnership, Neighbors Through Art, for a 50th anniversary event celebrating the Brown vs. Board of Education historic decision ending segregation.

The following grants were approved by the PCA General Membership at the October general membership meeting:

1. Applicant: The Palisades Community Church

Purpose: To purchase and install two stair lifts to improve access to the sanctuary and fellowship hall for people who cannot climb stairs or who do so with pain and difficulty.

Amt. Requested: $2,100

Remarks: The Palisades Community Church is a non-denominational, non-discriminatory institution that makes its facilities available for meetings and other activities to a variety of groups throughout the Palisades neighborhood. They also offer a very popular neighborhood day care program.

PCF Recommendation: Approve $2,100

2. Applicant: Saint David's Parish

Purpose: To purchase two benches to be installed in the St. David's Episcopal Church playground.

Amt. Requested: $736

Remarks: Saint David's is a neighborhood church in the Palisades and the playground serves children in the neighborhood whether or not their families are members of the Church.

PCF Recommendation: Approve $736

3. Applicant: Key Elementary School

Purpose: Replace or supplement materials for four early childhood classrooms at Key

Amt. Requested: $4,000 to $6,000

Remarks: Having just undergone a total facilities upgrade and expansion, Key School, the PK-5 public school for the Palisades, needs materials to equip its new early childhood classrooms and to upgrade the sorely outdated materials in existing classrooms.

PCF Recommendation: Approve $4,000

4. Applicant: Community Council for the Homeless at Friendship Place

Purpose: To provide help pay for a reception being held to thank the Palisades Community for its support of the Council's facility located in the Palisades neighborhood on the occasion of its 10th anniversary.

Amt. Requested: $1,000

Remarks: Since 1994 the Council has operated a home at 4891 MacArthur Blvd., known as Veronica House. During its history 11 women have lived there, and it provides permanent housing for five formerly homeless women. On December 5th they will hold a reception to thank the Palisades neighborhood for its help and acceptance. The significance of the date is that it marks their 10th Anniversary in the neighborhood. The reception is being advertised in the PCA Newsletter, Northwest Current and various churches and businesses in the area are being asked to publicize it.

PCF Recommendation: Approve $500 to cover the cost of the tent and heater needed for the reception. (The house is too small for such an event.)

5. Applicant: Friends of Hardy, Inc. Purpose: To replace existing, badly deteriorated storage sheds and purchase toys for the Cooperative Play Program at the Hardy Recreation Center.

Amt. Requested: $1,380

Remarks: The Hardy Recreation Center serves a large number of Palisades children. This grant will replace three deteriorated sheds with two new ones to store equipment used at the Center. The grant will also provide replacement of toys for the Hardy Play Coop which serves neighborhood children during the school year.

PCF Recommendation: $1,380