Four businesses get help to grow our local economy

Nipissing MPP Monique Smith
News Release

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Entrepreneurs in Nipissing region are launching businesses and creating eight new jobs.

With support from the province, the four businesses being established include:

 Scissorchik’s – a hair salon in North Bay is renovating its premises and purchasing equipment and furniture.

 Floral Creations by Phil – a new flower shop in North Bay is purchasing a cooler, office equipment and advertising.

 Anita Landscaping Statues – is purchasing moulds and a mobile column lift, as well as marketing expenses, to start-up a business in Mattawa that produces water fountains and a variety of other statues.

 Fire Alert – a mobile safety business in Callander which promotes, installs and maintains fire safety and prevention products, as well as providing fire safety training techniques is purchasing a storage trailer and other equipment.

Ontario is investing a total of $41,190, through the NOHFC’s Northern Ontario Entrepreneur Program in these four companies:

• $5,010 to Scissorchik’s
• $3,720 to Floral Creations by Phil
• $9,700 to Anita Landscaping Statues and
• $22,760 to Fire Alert.

Making infrastructure improvements in Northern Ontario communities is a key component of the plan laid out in Ontario's 2011 Budget - Turning the Corner, to create and support 10,000 new and existing jobs.

“We are very proud to assist these creative initiatives of individuals in the Nipissing region,” said Monique Smith, MPP for Nipissing. “Their businesses are a key component to developing a more vibrant community, and growing our local economy.”

“I am very pleased of the McGuinty government’s continued commitment to work with the NOHFC to support these business ventures. Over the past seven years we’ve seen the growth of many successful initiatives in our Northern communities and our goal is to continue building this road for prosperity and job creation,” said Michael Gravelle, Minister of Northern Development, Mines and Forestry and Chair of the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation.

QUICK FACTS

 In the 2011 Ontario Budget, the government committed a $10-million increase for a total of $100 million to the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund in 2011-12.

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