LCRA awards grant for upgrades to popular community hall

EAGLE LAKE – Thanks to a $4,796 grant from the Lower Colorado River Authority, the Eagle Lake Chamber of Commerce will begin work on a kitchen area and renovate the cramped restrooms in a popular community meeting space.

The Community Development Partnership Program grant will pay for improvements to the community hall that is adjacent to the chamber’s business office. Rentals of the space help fund the chamber, but the nonprofit organization also uses the hall for community events, including cookoffs and arts and crafts fairs.

Connie Herman, the chamber’s office manager, said the upgrades to the century-old building include making the hall’s restrooms accessible to people with disabilities and adding water-saving fixtures. The renovations also will include installing a donated sink in an area that will become a kitchen in the future.