Clearview approves community grants

Being budget time, Clearview council approved its annual Community Assistance Grants Monday, doling out $26,000 to 27 area organizations. 

Requests were up this year, totaling $73,100 (including a $20,000 request from Senior Wish Association). 

The grant amounts were recommended by a sub-committee of council (made up of Deputy Mayor Barry Burton, Councillor Connie Leishman and deputy clerk Brenda Falls) and approved by all of council at the Feb. 11 meeting, in time to be included in the final round of budget deliberations. 

Councillor Doug McKechnie said he would be in support of spending more on grants. 

“I’ll vote in favour of this but I am shocked,” he said. “I think we can do double that next year.”

The township had set aside $29,000 for community grants, leaving $3,000 for requests that come in throughout the year. 

• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Georgian Triangle: $1,000 (Provide mentoring programs); 

• Breaking Down Barriers: $1,000 (Provide accessibility support/services);

• Brentwood Horticultural Society: $700 (Community beautification projects);

• Clearview Community Theatre: $2,000 (Youth theatre production); 

• Clearview Soccer Club: $1,500 (Promote and develop soccer for children); 

• Clearview Stayner Food Bank: $2,000 (Provision of food resources); 

• Creemore Cats: $500 (Spay/neuter program); 

• Creemore Horticultural Society: $700 (Community beautification projects); 

• Crime Stoppers – Simcoe, Dufferin, Muskoka: $500 (Anonymous crime solving service); 

• Dunedin Literary Festival: $500 (Showcasing local literary talent); 

• Duntroon-Stayner Road Race: $500 (Promote physical fitness); 

• Georgian Triangle Humane Society: $2,000 (Spay/neuter assistance program);

• Highlands Youth for Christ/The Door: $500 (Youth/family outreach programs); 

• Home Horizon Transitional Program: $1,000 (Counselling/housing for homeless); 

• Hospice Georgian Triangle Foundation: $2,000 (Provide professional care/support); 

• Magic of Children in the Arts: $750 (Support children art programs); 

• Manito Shrine Club: $2,000 (Support children with special care needs); 

• My Friend’s House – Collingwood Crisis Centre: $1,000 (Women/children safe refuge); 

• Purple Hills Arts and Heritage Society: $350 (Building community by cultivating and promoting arts and heritage); 

• Royal Canadian Legion – Branch 397 Creemore: $1,000 (Canada Day Celebration events); 

• Senior Wish Association: $1,000 (Provide program/initiatives to isolated seniors);

• SilverShoe Historical Society: $750 

(Promote Bethel Union Cemetery/Sunnidale Pioneer historical site); 

• South Simcoe 4-H Association: $250 

(Youth learning opportunities); 

• Stayner Chamber of Commerce: $500 

(Support economic programs); 

• Stayner Heritage Society: $300 

(Promote heritage preservation/appreciation); 

• Stayner Horticultural Society: $700 

(Community beautification projects); 

• Teddy Bears Picnic Children’s Centre: $1,000 (Support affordable non-profit daycare)