Arts network gets support via Chatham-Kent’s Hydro One fund

Chatham-Kent Arts and Culture Network has won municipal funding via the Hydro One Reserve to continue its community mission. The network, which works to expand the arts locally, will get $25,000 a year for three years at no cost to taxpayers. “We are grateful to Mayor Darrin Canniff and the municipality . . . for […]

More funding needed for child welfare

Protecting the region’s most vulnerable children has become increasingly more difficult in recent years due to inadequate funding to the child welfare sector, the local children’s aid society says. Family and Children’s Services of Lanark, Leeds and Grenville says they are facing a series of challenges due to a lack of provincial funding in recent […]