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GREGG CHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca MAIN STREET ART DISPLAY IN DOWNTOWN HAWKESBURY graphics to offer. In 2020 three building own- ers agreed to have graphics applied to the windows of their empty storefront premises. The BIA has had mixed response so far to the Main Street storefront artwork. There have been further inquiries from other com- mercial landlords about installing graphics in their empty storefronts. But, Assaly noted, the project has inspired the owners of sev- eral businesses operating in the downtown. “There are businesses now putting in their own graphics,” Assaly said. “You look now along Main Street and you see a lot of graphics. Main Street looks so much better.” Both Bogue and Assaly emphasized that the BIA’s main goal is to encourage new tenants to occupy the empty storefronts in the downtown core. But Bogue noted that the group also wants to promote more inter- est among residents and visitors in coming downtown to browse and shop. A “Main Street Art” project of Hawkesbury’s business improvement group is getting more interest and sup- port during the pandemic. “It makes the town look better,” said Law- rence Bogue, president of the Hawkesbury Business Improvement Area (BIA). “Our idea is to make the downtown more attractive so that people will want to go out (shopping) on Main Street.” Corey Assaly (à gauche) et Lawrence Bogue de la Commission de zone d’amélioration locale de Hawkesbury (COMZAC) posent à côté de l’un des graphiques exposés dans la vitrine d’un bâtiment commercial le long de la rue Main de Hawkesbury. Le graphique fait partie d’un projet que le groupe de promotion des entreprises a créé pour aider à embellir le centre-ville. —photo Gregg Chamberlain
The Hawkesbury BIA was first launched in 2016. Both Bogue and Corey Assaly, BIA treasurer, noted the concern then was finding a practical use for the small number of empty storefronts in the downtown core. The BIA’s proposal was to provide at its own cost graphic art pieces, ranging from nature scenes to sports images, for the storefront windows of businesses that had closed down. Studio Lettrage provided some sample artwork and a mockup of what these store fronts would look like with the window graphics. There was no response from commercial property owners to the proposal and the project was shelved. The Hawkesbury BIA revived the project in 2019 with new sample BUSINESS START-UP GRANTS CONFIRMED Thirteen local entrepreneurs got finan- cial assists for their new businesses. The Prescott and Russell Entrepreneur- ship Centre (PREC) announced confirma- tion of $32,500 in grants for 13 new local businesses from the Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade’s Starter Company Plus program (SCP). The grant recipients and their businesses include: Casselman entrepreneurs Sara Anne Mailhot of Café Sucré, and Stéphane Noël of Noël Mediation Services-Services de Média- tion Noël; Hawkesbury’s Lorraine Auclair of Gâteaux Lila Cakes and Sweets, Simon and Élise Guindon of With Simon Commercial Plumbing, Éric Turgeon of Garage Mechlec, and Elena Piccone of Abaru Construction and Property Management Inc.; L’Orignal’s Marc-Andr é Amyot and Val é rie LachaÎne of Winston, Michael Inskip of Fairway Green Cannabis, and Patrick Lalonde of Lalonde Physio; Thaila Riden of The Grand Barn in Vankleek Hill, Marc Leduc and Nikolas Dupuis of Seal N Clean in Rockland, BenoÎt Bonneau of Boucherie Bonneau Meat Shop in Plantagenet, and Vanessa Viau, Samuel Doucet, and Aude Martel of Kyan Cuisine in Embrun. Each grant recipient received $2500 in start-up funding and workshop instruction on financial basics, customer service, online promotion and trade, business planning, and other subjects.— EAP newsroom Treize nouvelles entreprises locales de la région de Prescott-Russell ont reçu de l’aide au démarrage grâce à un programme de soutien du ministère du Développement économique, de la Création d’emplois et du Commerce
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