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PRAC receives homelessness grant

The Puerto Rican Action Committee of Southern New Jersey Inc., has been approved to receive a grant of $120,000 from the N.J. Homelessness Prevention Program.

The award, administered by the state Department of Community Affairs, will provide funds for temporary assistance with security deposits and rent to any eligible household, Hispanic or non-Hispanic, throughout Cape May County.

Throughout the current economic crisis, Cape May County has witnessed a sharp increase in the number of residents in significant need of emergency assistance.

This funding is a part of collective efforts to strengthen the network of services across the county so that residents have the means to be self-sufficient.

PRAC is located at 604 Franklin St. in Woodbine. For more information contact the office at 861-5800.

Borough applies for bikeway funds

The borough has made two applications to the state Department of Transport-ation's Local Aid Program for two applications totaling approximately $1 million.

The first, in the amount of $438,489, is for the next phase of Woodbine's bikeway.

This shared-use path would be an 8-foot-wide bicycle/ pedestrian trail constructed within the street right-of-way on both Heilprin Avenue and Webster Street.

This phase will link the main bikeway to both the community school complex and provide a portion of the bicycle/pedestrian path along Webster that will be necessary as a future connection to the approved bikeway being designed along the Cape May Seashore Line and funded with N.J. DOT 2009 Bikeway funds.

The path would be installed from the Woodbine Developmental Center driveway on Webster Street, continue west on the north side of Webster Street and then north on the east side of Heilprin Avenue.

The path would end at the existing sidewalk on Heilprin Avenue and Grant Avenue, where there is a bus stop, directly across DeHirsch Avenue and Route 550 from Lincoln Park.

The shared path could also serve the community by creating a walking and bicycling loop for residents and employees of the Woodbine Develop-mental Center.

The second application, for $547,903, is for Town Center Revitalization Phase V: streetlighting and related amenities.

These proposed additions to the Town Center Street-scape Program include additional streetscape improvements from Franklin Street to Bryant Street, the northern terminus of the Town Center.

Three of six phases are complete.

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