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Prescott-Russell Community Development Corp. (PRCDC) to announce a $54,000 grant from the Eastern Ontario Development Program (EODP) to support the business plan behind the creation of the ecological tourism and “green” business development project. “This is a great project for our riding,” Lemieux said. “Investments like this one help strengthen our community.” The ecoLarose Centre project is the brain- child of the PRCDC, in co-operation with the counties and the two municipalities whose borders include the community forest. The project involves the UCPR as owner of the centre and responsible for its construc-
tion. The counties will then lease the prem- ises to the Prescott-Russell Entrepreneurial Academy (PREA), a non-profit group which will manage the site and develop programs and services for clients using the centre for conferences, workshop retreats, ecotourism initiatives, and business development ven- tures that focus on bio-energy, eco-indus- try, and eco-tourism. The federal grant will cover the cost of hiring a project manager and also help with some of the start-up marketing expenses for the centre. The Larose Forest is the end result of Ferdinand Larose’s effort to reclaim aban- doned farmlands wasted by soil erosion.
LAROSE FOREST | The Harper Conserva- tive government is giving a green thumbs up to the ecoLarose project. In the middle of the clearing for the future site of the ecoLarose Centre in the heart of the Larose Community Forest on Oct. 25, Glengarry-Prescott-Russell MP Pierre Lemieux gathered the mayors of Clarence- Rockland and The Nation along with war- den of the United Counties of Prescott- Russell (UCPR) and representatives for the
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