Amateur Sports for Seniors was the target for this year?s 2001 Canada Summer Games Endowment Fund. The Oxford Community Foundation was seeking grant requests for the over $17,000 they were given from this fund. Executive Director of the Oxford Community Foundation Keith Hudson explains where the grant came from. "When the 2001 Canada Summer Games were held in London, Middlesex and Oxford County, a committee was set up that coordinated the actual events and the money that was raised through the sell of tickets, there was surplus at the end of that." That surplus went into an endowment fund that?s been looked after by the London Community Foundation since 2001. Grant Chair for the Foundation Liz Lessif says each of the nine recipients deserve the grants. "They're all for programs for seniors to help them carry on with either their equipment or their programs and they can't carry on without updating equipment." The Tillsonburg Senior Centre was one of the grant recipients which their Secretary Katherine Donaldson says will go to a new sport called dart ball. "We purchased the whole thing. We have the materials now. We have the whole stand, frame for the board, darts, and mats to put down." The recipients of the grants ranged from lawn bowling clubs, to senior centers and curling clubs. Each needed improvement to their existing equipment or to fund future tournaments.
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