The MRC Pontiac, in partnership with the Ministry of Culture and the CLD Pontiac, have created a Cultural Development Fund with $17 000 available. Its objective is to support community projects that increase the number of cultural activities and events, improve the communication and promotion of cultural activities and events, participate in the animation and [read full story]
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The MRC Pontiac has provided $35 000 to its CLD to inaugurate the Pontiac Tourism Development Program (PTDP). The projects selected are from local tourism businesses that wish to develop their site, improve their infrastructure or even change their equipment. The sum allocated to these businesses has to be used for material goods or the [read full story]
The 22 projects to receive Rural Pact financing were announced at the last MRC Pontiac Mayors’ Council on March 22nd. Close to $403 000 will be invested into projects again this year thanks to the participation of several community and municipal partners. The CLD’s Rural Team comprised of three Rural Development Officers, Amy Taylor, Bernhardt Beaudry [read full story]
MRC Pontiac launched a $17,000 Culture, Communications and Heritage fund to help municipalities and organisations promote local cultural events. Resulting from the MRC and CLD’s Cultural Development Agreement with the Ministry of Culture, Communications and the Status of Women, the fund aims to support projects that: Increase the number of events, festivals and cultural activities; [read full story]
Most of us learn early in life to be wary of anything that sounds too good to be true. A five billion dollar investment and 8,000 new jobs for Pontiac certainly qualify as such. That’s why we’ve come to expect comments such as the one we received recently from a Mansfield resident demanding proof that [read full story]
