State Funding to Support Repairs and Upgrades at Moshannon Community Center

A community gathering place in Snow Shoe will be getting some much needed repairs and upgrades with help from a state grant.

State Rep. Paul Takac, D-Lemont, on Thursday presented the Moshannon Community Center with an $85,000 check representing recently secured funding from Local Share Account awards distributed through the Commonwealth Financing Authority.

“Every community benefits from having a place to host family-friendly events like weddings, dinners and other celebrations,” Takac said in a news release. “These much-needed upgrades will help create a more welcoming and accessible venue here in Snow Shoe. I promised to do all I could to assist the Mountaintop community, and this is another step in making good on that commitment.”

The funding will be used to improve drainage and upgrade lighting, energy efficiency and accessibility.

Snow Shoe Township Supervisor Rodney Preslovich said he appreciates the effort to improve the quality of life in the Mountaintop community.

“This specific project will be a huge benefit to families in our area, and I look forward to continued progress on improving the quality of life for residents here in Snow Shoe,” Preslovich said.

The upgrades have been long-needed, according to Beth Watson, treasurer of the Moshannon Community Center.

“I am so grateful we were able to get the funding to do some long overdue repairs to the property,” Watson said.

The community center project is among more than $1.5 million in LSA funding recently secured in Takac’s 82nd district, including $1.15 million for the Mountaintop area.

LSA funding was created by the Pennsylvania Race Horse Development and Gaming Act of 2004 to distribute gaming revenues for projects in the public interest.