Treasury board minister Tony Clement's visit through northeastern Ontario continued with the FedNor boss passing out more than $3.5 million in cheques to its community development organizations, to small business, and to promote francophone entrepreneurship and tourism.
In Kirkland Lake, the Kirkland & District Community Development Corporation gets $960,000 for its business counselling services.
In Temiskaming Shores, NECO Community Futures receives $582,376 to showcase agriculture, agri-food and equine products at its pavilion at the 2012 Royal Agriculture Winter Fair in Toronto next fall.
Thornloe Cheese landed $148,500 to build a smoking, shredding and cooling facility for locally-made cheese.
The Elk Lake Eco Centre pocketed $64,000 to finish a three-year business plan to “identify partnership and operational efficiencies and define sustainable growth opportunities.”
Francophone tourism got a $117,480 boost through Centre Culturel Artem, a non-profit organization, which is developing a downloadable appp for smartphone or tablet for interactive French-language tours of the Temiskaming area.
NECO cleaned up again by the time Clement hit North Bay with $960,000 for its business support programs.
The francophone organization, RDEE, received $605,610 for an export development program.
With $264,000; Innovation Initiatives Ontario North will move forward with its Step Forward Entrepreneurs Program, a two-year program to help small business in North Bay and Parry Sound areas.
Nipissing University and its Biomass Innovation Centre gets $23,400 to develop a strategy to assess the current state of biomass-related developments in the region.
Wip Ware Inc. receives $27,500 to hire an intern to assist the North Bay mining software innovation company with its quality assurance process.
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