Persistence has paid off for the Eagles on Track campaign.
After a couple of failed attempts, the organization has secured $95,000 in funding from the Ontario Trillium Foundation.
The money will help officials complete a rubberized track at Dryden High School.
Mike Wood says they managed to convince Trillium that an upgraded track is important for the community.
Wood says Dryden’s response to the Kraft-TSN challenge this past summer was the clincher.
Dryden finished second in all of Canada in online votes during the one day blitz.
Wood says they are now $50,000 short of their fundraising goal and vows that the project will be completed by August.
He says the support has been amazing and notes they still have a couple of funding applications in with the federal government.