sentences:  In 2002, the Ontario Trillium Foundation awarded the observatory $150 000 to renovate the research station, stabilize the bird banding operations and develop outreach activities.Smaller grants have included a $5 000 donation from the George Cedric Metcalfe Foundation for a modern bird banding facility and a $7 000 grant from the Helen McCrea Peacock Foundation to construct blinds and observation platforms.Prince Edward Point extends about 10 kilometers into Lake Ontario.