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The Emerging Erie Fund is awarding a $100,000 grant to the Bayfront Maritime Center to help bring the USS Porcupine back to Erie’s waterfront.<\/p>\n
The project is a partnership between the Bayfront Maritime Center and the Erie Center for Arts and Technology (ECAT), combining historic preservation with hands-on workforce training.<\/p>\n
The USS Porcupine is a replica of the original vessel that fought in the War of 1812. The original boat was built in Erie.<\/p>\n
Bayfront Maritime Center Executive Director Robin Mascharka said the organization hopes to begin on-the-job construction training with ECAT in January 2027.<\/p>\n
Once completed, the USS Porcupine will serve as a resource for maritime, STEM, and environmental programming, while also providing new opportunities for community members to experience Erie’s waterfront.<\/p>\n
Emerging Erie Fund leaders said the project aligns with the organization’s mission of supporting both people and places in the Erie community.<\/p>\n
The grant will help ECAT participants gain hands-on experience and develop skills in areas such as carpentry while contributing to a project that will become a lasting community asset.<\/p>\n
Mascharka said she is confident the USS Porcupine will become a “gem” for the Erie community for generations to come.<\/p>\n
The Bayfront Maritime Center is also hosting its Cardboard Boat Regatta Saturday at 9 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Emerging Erie Fund is awarding a $100,000 grant to the Bayfront Maritime Center to help bring the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[4467,48638,76767,136,138,137,296,139,6725],"class_list":["post-282692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-bayfront","tag-bayfront-maritime-center","tag-emerging-erie-fund","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-local","tag-news","tag-nonprofit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}