Barrington Area Community Foundation awards grants to local organizations

The Barrington Area Community Foundation has awarded $173,000 in grants to more than 20 organizations, all of which seek to improve the lives of those in and around Barrington.

Barrington’s Hooved Animal Rescue and Protection Society received $12,500 to go towards the recently donated 100 acres of land in Barrington Hills that Donna Ewing, president and founder of HARPS, said she wants to use for a rescue and education center.

“We’re trying to get back to our roots,” said Ewing, who founded HARPS in 1971.

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