Car World Used Auto Parts owner Jeff Kantor did not want the town to have to take money from other departments to pay for emergency mosquito spraying, so he went door to door to local businesses and raised $2,915 to fund the spraying, which began Friday, Sept. 25.

“I said I think businesses in town can rally and raise the money,” Kantor said.

An educational effort has also been put forth, with a seminar on avoiding Eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, at Moore School on Sept. 29.

Selectmen voted to conduct emergency spraying of Moore Park and Moore School after learning the state’s only confirmed human case of EEE this year was a 3-year-old girl from town.

“The reason I rallied is I felt terrible that this little girl had come down with that and I knew some alpacas in town that had contracted the disease,” Kantor said. “I said, ‘It is not going to be much to raise that.’”

The cost for three rounds of emergency spraying, plus the cost to apply for the emergency permit came to $2,250. The remaining balance of the money raised will go toward next year’s mosquito program if approved by voters in March.

Sarah MacGregor, president of Dragon Mosquito Control Inc. in North Hampton, said the insecticides should be effective for up to four weeks.

“It will kill mosquitoes that are there that night and will continue to provide control for the upcoming weeks when mosquitoes land on the vegetation,” MacGregor said.

Businesses that contributed to the fund for EEE spraying include ATS Equipment of NH, Inc.; Becker Transportation, Inc.; Candia Getty Station; Candia House of Pizza; Candray Pet Care Center, Inc.; Car World; Carleton Robie Ent. Inc.; Coppola Physical Therapy & Fitness Gym, LLC; Cutting Edge Industries, LLC; D&M Auto Repair, Inc. D.C.; Mobil; High Speed Technologies, Inc.; Jack Roberts Autobody; Lahr’s Transmissions Speed & Performance Shop, LLC; Machine Solutions, Inc.; Page Street Leasing, LLC; Pasquale’s Ristorante; Pleasant Hill Landscaping, LLC; Severino Trucking Co., Inc.; Stubby’s Place; and Synaptic Engineering.