On Thursday, February 18, local MPP Lisa Thompson met with representatives from the Township of Huron-Kinloss to congratulate them on the work being done thanks to a $500,000 Community Building Fund-Capital grant that it received from the Government of Ontario and is a granting program administered by the Ontario Trillium Foundation. Read More Read the full story
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The installation of a state-of-the-art street lighting system on Belle Isle – located on the Michigan side of the Detroit River across from Windsor, Ontario – was a major step forward in saving energy and electricity while improving safety for visitors. Now five years later, a new study says computer optimization modeling could lead to even further savings and other benefits, such as fewer crashes, for communities that upgrade their street light systems.
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