CENTRAL OREGON -- The Oregon Cultural Trust has awarded grants to four cultural organizations in Central Oregon. Carrie Kikel is Communications Manager with the trust. She says the Friends of Santiam Pass Ski Lodge received almost 23-thousand dollars to restore and repair the lodge’s external shell. Kikel says the Tower Theater Foundation was awarded almost 16-thousand dollars for the “Local at the Tower” programs. She says other grants included more than 12-thousand dollars to the Deschutes Public Library Foundation for the “A Novel Idea” community read program. And the High Desert Museum foundation received more than 10-thousand dollars for a new exhibition called, “Dam It! Beavers and Us.”