HUD delivers $1.5 million grant to Opportunity Link

Havre Daily News/Tim Leeds

U.S. Housing and Urban Development Helena Field Office Director Erik Amundson talks to Opportunity Link Inc. Executive Director Barb Stiffarm Tuedsay before a ceremony at Stone Child College on Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation to present a $1.5 million grant check to the poverty-fighting organization.

The north-central Montana anti-poverty organization received high praise Tuesday, with the head of a U.S. Housing and Urban Development division traveling from Washington, D.C., to present a check for $1.5 million to Opportunity Link Inc.

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