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" f - . i J ‘ * 490,000 cost for agn-food IE-rio, - ‘1‘“...pr : venture centre ewe”? - 'lti'lglggllll #liArtgtqrsell, --- ,7, farm income,“hesaid. i .. are"""'" yy ::3 I 'TA. News-Calhorne-The pro- Coombs also pointed ' il in»: " , . _ rm vincial government is invect- out that the 15/)00-squate. B, pth; :. flip?! " " _ . a? _ ing S490,000 in the Ontario foot centre is developing "i; Join ' cg t , - ' C . _ Agri-Food venture Centre relationships with post- ”a ', ' 1 V - r C ' 3: _ . fl /, being built in Colborne’s in- secondary institutions such [ ‘ E.“ "e "at: ,. to: 9:lir, dustrialpark. asLoyalist and Durham that a E-ra - -., ' , TM' ' "2, i. / icr9. , Northumberland-Quinte will lead to opportunities 8' " 'i .-‘..,: , _ l i Y' l ineMuliin.operationsmanagerattheOntaiioA ri-FoodVenturetentre, West MPP Lou Rinaldi made "for youth engagement "il LA " _ : .. ._ . . .- 1 ledatourofthefadlity,explainingthevarioussgerviresthatwillbe 'ttr- the announcement recently and: employment and small a: - 'MllE ‘ t . __ . t itidedaftertucer1treorertssornetimeinrlwemberissnume at the centre with county businessdevekoImsnt--all of l t , " - ' council and staffrnerntmrs in whichmeansjobs.” 'll ii“ it, - Mi, at _ ' V - attendance. Placing the centre in _ltl W _ liBiM1 i331“; ' g 7,, C" __ ____ l ", The money will be used Colbome‘s industrial park I - mm; iii " ' ' I' to further develop the niche "is key to what will be our , . I' ' Eta Wt I Mi! , F r, " food processing facility that agricultural future," he said. " - " Van. Eg, ‘3; - - i,» is designed to accommodate "It's a real plus for q all Ia ' ‘ er __ ..__e_ """"_"‘""” :: small batch processing, and Northumberland," said Ir r", _ ,th"v,"iir'" _.rrv __ _ /':j' t:iS1r 'll : the packaging and storing of Dan Borowec, the cuunty's ' , _ " . 3? Qt, :'",_‘;'_':' __ -,r' _ 'r,';, lil, fruits “Pd vegetables. . tg,2,r, of economlc 'lttrthotherialMnte West - ton Rinaldl announced recently the provincial govemment is [ .Bus‘ms 'upi.ert "rvyes ev5lor.mrnti ivho We.“ “3° pmidingWM00tothe0rrtarishgihrodhinuretentrebektgtitiltltttirlbarrWslMitsttiigpark. 'vi1ialsht p""ltf Mimi's 'i'fJ2'it,e,/irst of“ kind Irt The pnMnte is committing to promoting iotalfood and ‘the mania future is to enhance small I ,govemmeutis assistinginthe The centre will rent out It?"""'"'"'"""""""'"] _7, - t $1.2-million project through spasusartduseofits equipment the Local Food Fund it set to cook, chill, freeze, package _ t up to enhance agriculture and label on a cost-recovery and food processing in the basis. The rates have yet to l province by distributing $40 be set but there have been "a million a year. lot of inquiries" with close to ' It's "a fabulous investment 100 people having visited the l [and] truly is appreciated,” site,]oe Mullin, the fimility's WardenLindaThompson said. operations manager, said. , “It means a great deal to the The county is paying agricultural community, not $90,000 a year to lease the I only here in Nortlumaimrland building from REAL-FLEX but in the whole region, BusinessParks I Mm Kawartha Lakes all the The centre will open way through to Frontenac for business sometime ' County." Thompson said "a in November, later than l considerable amount of work expected because "Mother and effort went into making Nature put us four months I this happen, [which] people behind, [but] asoftstartmay have been working on ... nut be all that bad," Mullin I for over eight years," and said, when 'hee're bringing it's involved many diffetgstt inbmnd new equiprntmt"and I partners, locally, regionally newemployees. l and prtwinoiitl1y. In an interview, Borowec The funding "supports said the funding gives b the largest component Northumberland "a bit of our economic base in brtoadtsrexpansetrfequipment I Northumberland County, possibilities to maybe do and that trulyis critical," she more." He said one of the , said. biggest challenges the county 'The possibilities are has faced is “to determine b limitless,"CmmaheTownship which equipment to actually . Mayor More Coombs said, obtain, to get the maximum citing the potential the centre amount of use ... so that it k has to create employment, helpsthe fiml tally." have impact on new Borowec said "the b business start-ups, and bring opportunities for new crop recognition to Cramohe development is huge," b Township, the county and the giving hops as a example : region, farmers might choose to It's "a critical piece of grow to support local micro- ' infiastrugture that creates an breweries. opportimity to grow crops "Ws very much t that provide second source groundbreaking." . _ "'"", Tit: m; -. __ CT" Tii" J:".fs5%'5r-'aa/5Eieiifirt1"yT , , r» Weafiifiymfl i "I "--. 7'r as: _iliill1it/ .landiiiotii " ’1'7E:";T i I E ... l 1.7-“, ' ', a,“ "'e" ;:_-,.§,.es,a A (ill,