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Bruce Botanical Gardens into round two of funding contest |
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The Bruce Botanical Food Gardens project has made it to Round 2 of the Aviva Community Fund competition. Voting ended at noon Wednesday (Oct. 19), and the results show the project had 1,050 votes, placing it in the top 15 per cent of all projects Canada-wide. The gardens are the only large project representing Bruce County in the competition. Slated to be built on Park Street in Ripley, the project could receive between $100,000 and $150,000 in Aviva funding. The second round of voting begins Oct. 24 and runs to Nov. 9. People are encouraged to vote for the project. To do this, they must visit the website: www.avivacommunityfund.org/ideas/acf11223 and place their vote. You can vote once per day, and if you have a Facebook page, it's easy to log-in and vote. Otherwise, register to place your vote. Round three of the voting runs Nov. 14-30, with the semi-finals on Dec. 6-16. “The opportunity that the Aviva competition presented us to get the information out about the project has been incredibly valuable," says Heather Pletsch, grant researcher and community project facilitator for the gardens. “We are very thankful to have this opportunity.” Lynne
Taylor, project designer, adds, “The residents of Bruce County
and particularly those of Ripley have been extremely supportive and
we hope we can continue to call on them to ask others to vote and
keep voting themselves until the competition is over." “The Township of Huron-Kinloss is very supportive of this project and recognizes the benefits it will present not only to Huron-Kinloss but to Bruce County as a region," says Huron-Kinloss mayor Mitch Twolan. "We hope that everyone will continue to vote for the project daily and make Bruce County a winner.”
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The
Bruce Botanical Food Gardens are to be done in three phases on
about 10 acres of land. The project team is working toward a Phase 1
start in the spring of 2012.
Phase 1, on about three acres of land, will include an extension of the entrance road, a crop of sunflowers and a corn maze for income generation, an underground tank for watering, lighting and drainage, and main walkways. For more on the project and contact information, visit www.bbfg.org Scrolling stops when you move your mouse inside the scroll area. You can click on the ads for more
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