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A handful of area communities have received grant awards from Diamond-Vogel Paint, for the 2016 Paint Iowa Beautiful (KIB) program. The program provides free paint to a wide variety of public service projects throughout Iowa. The program is administered through Keep Iowa Beautiful, with the paint provided by the Diamond Vogel Paint Company.

In all, 81 community projects are receiving the free paint. Among them, locally is:

• The Exira Lions Club & Sparton Leo Club of DHK for their Park concession stand project.
• The Exira Fire and EMS Association, for their Fire Hall/EMS Building project.
• The Greenfield/Adair County Historical Society, for Historic buildings.
• The Guthrie Center/Main Street group is receiving paint for a Restaurant & store.
• And, Guthrie County/White Pole Road Development is receiving a paint grant to paint 108 poles along the historic road.

In the 13 year partnership with KIB, Diamond Vogel has provided over 8, 260 gallons of paint, for 585 community projects in Iowa. For more information, go to www.keepiowabeautiful.com.