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The Ontario Government is investing over $3.5 million to support more than 700 businesses in the Ontario agri-food sector to establish or expand their online presence.
The aim of the funding is to help provide consumers with more access to local food. Under the Agri-Food Open for E-Business initiative, 22 businesses in Haliburton- Kawartha Lakes-Brock will each receive provincial grants of up to $5,000.
A total of $97,698.60 will be provided to businesses in Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock.
MPP Laurie Scott says the grants will help local agri-food businesses to adapt to the challenges COVID-19 presents. Scott adds that developing an online marketplace not only allows people to expand their business, but it also increases safe options for community members to buy locally sourced products.
Province announces $350K in new tourism funding
By Sue Tiffin
Much-anticipated provincial funding to support the tourism region that includes the Haliburton Highlands was announced last Monday, Dec. 7, with $350,000 awarded to Ontario’s Highlands Tourism Organization to help offer relief to organizations hard-hit by COVID-19.
Lisa MacLeod, Minister of Heritage, Sport, Tourism and Culture Industries made the announcement virtually via online teleconferencing tool Zoom, with Laurie Scott, MPP for Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock; John Yakabuski, MPP for Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke; Daryl Kramp, MPP for Hastings, Lennox and Addington and Nicole Whiting, executive director of Ontario’s Highlands Tourism Organization (RTO 11).
“I know that our sectors were hit first, hardest, and will take the longest to recover as a result of COVID-19,” said MacLeod, before announcing $350,000 to support the regional tourism organization, she said, “so