Seven Carroll and Sac County charitable projects have been selected to receive $61,000 in grants from the Gilbert and Barbara Renze Foundation. Trustee of the grants, Iowa Savings Bank, announced the selections had made out of the 48 grant applications submitted this year. All Strings Attached will receive $3,950 for an equipment trailer and the Kuemper Catholic Schools Foundation will be getting $12,000 to be used towards the purchase of equipment. There will be $4,200 gifted toward work on portions of the Sauk Rail Trail in Sac County and the Lake View Fire Department will be using their $10,000 award towards the purchase of a compressor for air packs. The City of Odebolt and the Odebolt Fire Department have also each been named recipients of the Renze grants, with $15,000 allocated to the fire department for the purchase of grain bin rescue equipment and $850 to the city for their rural legacy project. And the final named winner of a $15,000 grant is the City of Wall Lake for the purchase of a pool liner. To date, the Gilbert and Barbara Renze Foundation has awarded more than $529,000 to charitable projects in Sac and Carroll Counties.
