Over the past year, we have been busy laying the ground work for 2015 to be a year of growth here at the CDP. Thanks to a significant increase in support from individuals and businesses in our community, through the Community Investment Tax Credit and new grants, 2015 will bring several new initiatives to help us create opportunities for people to live, work and thrive on the Lower Cape.

In November, we were awarded grants to manage Housing Rehabilitation programs in the communities of Harwich & Dennis and Truro, Provincetown & Wellfleet. To help run these new grants, we've made additions to our staff - Jean Stanley as the Housing Rehab Program Manager and Mary Jane Yeomans as the Housing Rehab Program Bookkeeper. Through this program, we will be able to renovate the homes of forty of our low- to moderate-income neighbors. Learn more about this great program.

Thanks to the Eastham Affordable Housing Trust, we have two additional affordable rental homes available in Eastham. And, we're working on the purchase of three new rentals in Provincetown later this year all in an effort to address the affordable housing crisis in our community.

On the economic development front, we are working with local food producers to help them bring their products to market. And, we're sponsoring the very successful Orleans Winter Farmers' Market - held the first and third Saturday of each month from 9am to noon at the Nauset Regional Middle School in Orleans.

All of this great work is thanks to your support. Here is to a successful 2015!