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Aug 7, 19 •
0 Views • Feature Story, Life • Bruce Corcoran • No Comments
Despite growing up as a city lad, Kim Cooper fell in love with the agriculture industry. And after 45 years in the sector, he recently retired. For the past 11-plus years, Cooper worked for the municipality as an economic development officer with a focus on...
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Dec 5, 18 •
0 Views • Business, Feature Story • Bruce Corcoran • No Comments
General Motors’ planned idling of five auto plants, including one in Oshawa, Ont., will be felt locally. That according to Stuart McFadden, director of economic development for the municipality. GM announced last week it planned to shut the plants at the...
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May 29, 18 •
0 Views • Business, Feature Story • Bruce Corcoran • No Comments
Turn a vacant industrial lot into a bustling sports and transportation hub. That’s a vision Chatham-Kent Mayor Randy Hope discussed at the annual municipal update breakfast put on by the Chatham-Kent Chamber of Commerce May 24. With the new $36-million...
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Nov 19, 15 •
0 Views • Business, Feature Story • Chatham Voice • 1 Comment
North Buxton’s Bradonna Woodwork earned feature industry of the month honours with the Chatham-Kent Chamber of Commerce for November. The company manufactures wood products for the cabinet industry including, wood mouldings, turnings, corbels and butcher...
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Oct 17, 14 •
671 Views • Business, Feature Story • Jim Blake • 5 Comments
Officials with Brightenview Development International spent three days in Chatham-Kent this week laying plans for the firm’s proposed $45-million, 680,000-square-foot facility in Blenheim. Lorne Nystrom, Brightenview’s vice-president of public affairs and...
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Sep 26, 14 •
2859 Views • Business, Feature Story, Local News • Bruce Corcoran • 11 Comments
In one fell swoop, the municipality suddenly ran out of industrial land in Blenheim, and the South Kent community will soon be home to a massive industrial condominium project. Municipal economic development staff say there is nothing like it in the...
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Jul 24, 13 •
508 Views • Bruce Uncorked, Feature Story, Viewpoint • Jim Blake • 1 Comment
Last week MPPs Rick Nicholls and Monte McNaughton held a media event outside a partially vacant industrial building on Richmond Street to hammer the government on the loss of manufacturing jobs. That’s what opposition parties do. Part of their job is to...
