Burns credited for $101,268 Lower Yoder grant for D Street upgrade
‘Frank helped us secure the funds to do our part’
Rep. Frank Burns July 22, 2025 | 11:18 AM
EBENSBURG, July 22 – The main highway corridor to the West Hills region – D Street in Lower Yoder Township – is receiving a major upgrade due to $101,268 in funding supervisors attribute to the efforts of state Rep. Frank Burns.
Supervisor chairman William “Bill” Heim said an Elk Run culvert that runs for two blocks that was “totally wiped out in the 1977 flood” had been redone by the Army Corps of Engineers decades ago, but it has deteriorated over the years to the point where PennDOT wanted it rehabilitated as part of a complete redo of D Street.
“We called and asked Frank for his help before we even started the project. And (now) you know the rest,” Heim said. “Frank helped us secure the funds to do our part of the D Street Project.”
Supervisor vice chairman Al Grandinetti echoed that sentiment, crediting Burns with playing a major role in securing D Street project funding for the 2,500-population township.
“I would like to start by expressing gratitude for state Rep. Frank Burns and his collaboration and communication with the small townships surrounding the city of Johnstown. His partnership is most important to all of us here in the West Hills Region,” Grandinetti said. “We feel that this grant, and the entire D Street renovation, is an investment in our community and the entire West Hills region.”
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“I would like to start by expressing gratitude for state Rep. Frank Burns and his
collaboration and communication with the small townships surrounding the city of Johnstown. His partnership is most important to all of us here in the West Hills Region.”
– Al Grandinetti, supervisor/vice chairman, Lower Yoder Township
“We called and asked Frank for his help before we even started the project. And (now) you know the rest. Frank helped us secure the funds to do our part of the D Street Project.”
– William “Bill” Heim, supervisor/chairman, Lower Yoder Township.
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Burns, D-Cambria, said that he participated in a joint phone call with PennDOT and the Lower Yoder Township supervisors months ago to discuss the project and need for state support.
“With this funding and through working with PennDOT, the township will also have new sidewalks from above the ballfield to Fairfield Avenue,” Burns said.