19 local projects in Lambton County have gotten funding thanks to the Counties Creative Grant Program.
The investment of over $70 thousand is for projects in the arts, culture and heritage areas.
The funding cannot exceed over 50 percent, and winners were selected by a committee,
Lambton’s Creative County Grant Program launched in 2013 to support innovative projects that enrich the lives of people in Lambton County.
A full list of projects getting funding can be found below.
- $5,500 to support the Lambton Centre with its Explore the Arts Summer Camp
- $1,500 to support the Wiiwkewdong Arts Collective with its Indigenous Culture event
- $6,000 to support the Optimist Club of Forest with its Kid Food Nation local food program
- $6,500 to support the E’Maawizidijig Heritage & Culture Club with a live Indigenous Dance performance at area schools
- $5,000 to support filmmaker Kyler Wigle with the production of the short film Food for Thought
- $6,400 to support the Bluewater Wind Ensemble with their concert series
- $2,500 to support the Centre Communautaire Francophone de Sarnia-Lambton with their Diversity & Inclusion sidewalk project
- $890 to support local historian Paul Janes with the Township of Warwick: A Story Through Time anniversary video project
- $1,800 to support the Forest Business Improvement Area (BIA) with its Forest Mural Project
- $6,700 to support the Town of Plympton-Wyoming with the restoration of their 1932 Chevrolet Pumper at the Wyoming Fire Station
- $1,200 to support the Forest Agricultural Society with the Skilled Trades & Small Business Portrait Exhibit
- $2,000 to support Lambton Central Collegiate Vocational Institute with their school theatre production
- $2,205 to support the Bridgeview Public School with their Student Mindfulness Dance Program
- $2,500 to support the Town of Petrolia with the publication of their Petrolia 150th Events Calendar and Commemorative Booklet
- $5,795 to support the Petrolia Discovery Foundation with the restoration of the Canadian Rig and other site projects
- $2,500 to support local historian Kim Thomaes with the publication of a book on the history of the Village of Port Lambton
- $1,540 to support the Municipality of Brooke-Alvinston with the reproduction of murals located in the community auditorium
- $5,000 to support historian Mat Johnson, Marathon of History, with the publication of a book on the history of the St. Clair River railway tunnel
- $5,000 to support Krista Klompstra with the cost of artist fees for the Sombra Community Mural project
