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When Michigan residents renew their license plate tabs, they are given the opportunity to purchase a recreation passport for an additional $11.
That $11 per vehicle fee is applied to park operations and maintenance, and some of it is distributed across the state to other recreational facilities as part of the Recreation Passport grant program.
“The City of Houghton was awarded a DNR Passport Grant for showers and locker room work at Dee Stadium,” said Houghton city manager Eric Waara, who says the facility will be updated to meet ADA compliance standards. “And that’s something that certainly has been needed for a long time so if everything goes well prior to 2018 hockey season starting we should have new showers down there at the Dee Stadium.”
Waara says that some of the funds will be used to purchase two hockey sleds. “Part of the DNR’s mission with these grants is also to increase accessibility to those facilities so one thing that were going to be doing at Dee Stadium is purchasing sleds for people with mobility issues that they can use to get out on the ice and use the facility as well.”
Houghton is one of four Upper Peninsula communities to benefit from the Passport Grant program this year.
Twenty-two communities statewide have been awarded and will be sharing nearly $1.5 Million in project funding.
