Page 2 - கோவிச்சன் பள்ளத்தாக்கு பிராந்திய News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana
Copper Creek wildfire near Duncan considered under control
timescolonist.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from timescolonist.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
More firefighters arrive to battle out-of-control Cowichan Valley blaze
vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
ICET Announces Funding for Economic Recovery in Small Communities
SHARE ON: Photograph by Michelle Henderson
First Nations and Small communities on Vancouver Island are receiving financial assistance to hire staff to promote economic recovery in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Island Coastal Economic Trust is distributing money to 17 communities to staff 20 temporary jobs dealing with economic recovery.
ICET Board Chair, Ladysmith Mayor Aaron Stone, who is also the Chair of the Cowichan Valley Regional District, says is encouraged that the majority of the funding is being targeted toward small communities and Indigenous communities.
“Smaller, rural, and remote communities have big needs. They also have big ideas that these resources will help bring to life.”
Dondale said major investors from Canada and the U.S. are committed to financing the massive construction project on an 80-acre parcel that would also include a business and industrial park, a 120-room hotel, a shopping village and a technical academy for film apprenticeships and skills training.
Dondale did not identify the investors, but said announcements, including a timeline for the project, will be made early in the new year, after the feasibility study is complete.
“This is not a pipe dream … this has been in the works for many years,” Dondale said in an interview Wednesday.
“I have all the players to make it possible, especially the studio portion [people] who are experts and have done it before. Once we have the feasibility study, the investors I’ve had hiding in the woodwork will come out.”