Timmins

Timmins food startup becomes a passion project for young farmer

Rheault Distillery ’s Loon Vodka, made in Hearst, was recognized by the LCBO as the best product made in Ontario at the 2015 Elsie Awards. The Elsie Awards, a play on LCBO, is an annual industry awards program.

The consul general of India in Toronto will deliver a presentation at Northern College next week. Akhilesh Mishra will speak about Ontario-India trade and mining industry relations on Wednesday, May 27. The presentation is scheduled from 9 a.m.

Algonquin Avenue, Timmins’ main thoroughfare, has been voted Ontario’s worst road in a 2015 analysis by the Canadian Automobile Association (CAA).

The Ontario Trillium Foundation and Glencore Canada have formed a $1-million legacy fund to support non-profit endeavours in Timmins following the closure of Kidd Operations in 2021.

Graham Acres in Timmins is expanding from a hobby farm into a full-time vegetable farm, an expansion being made possible with provincial funding.

Excellence in business was celebrated at the 2015 Nova Business Excellence Awards, hosted by the Timmins Chamber of Commerce .

Resolute Forest Products will relinquish its timber rights in the Iroquois Falls area, says John Vanthof, the MPP for the Timiskaming-Cochrane riding.

The toll that heavily-laden ore trucks are taking in damaging a main road in Timmins has city politicians considering applying one.

The Business Enterprise Centre in Timmins will celebrate entrepreneurs who have completed the Starter Company program during the inaugural Building Momentum networking event on March 31.