Popular Highway 11 attraction Thornloe Cheese is looking to grow with a helping hand from the province.
The award-winning cheese manufacturer is drawing $852,000 from the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation (NOHFC) to upgrade equipment and enlarge retail space.
The waste water disposal system will also be improved to meet current environmental regulations, which is being assisted by $330,000 from the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs.
In all, the work will create eight new jobs.
In 2007, the Guelph-based Gencor Foods purchased the facility from dairy giant Parmalat Canada, with $750,000 in funding from the NOHFC to buy the physical assets and milk quota, and to maintain operations.
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