A new outdoor shelter was completed at the Clausen Memorial Museum with the help of a community challenge grant from AARP.

The Clausen Museum applied for the grant after AARP representatives came to the Petersburg Medical Center before the COVID-19 pandemic said Museum Director Cindi Lagoudakis. "I looked at some of the grant opportunities and I put in a request and it was not originally granted, but they contacted us and they were interested in the bench shelter idea," Lagoudakis said.

The grant's purpose is help make improvements in communities for the benefit of people of all ages accord...