WELLINGTON COUNTY A $2 million broadband internet expansion in rural Wellington County is complete, bringing high-speed internet to more than 270 houses and businesses in the Yatton, Creek Bank and Goldstone communities. “More people in Wellington now have access to fast, reliable internet service,” Agriculture Minister Ernie Hardeman (PC-Oxford) said in a release. This is an important step forward in our plan to deliver broadband that supports better educational opportunities, attracts more businesses and create jobs in Wellington County.” The expansion was led by the Southwestern Integrated Fibre Technology (SWIFT) project, a municipally-led, non-profit established by the Western Ontario Wardens Caucus in 2014.
Quail Creek Bank is donating $250,000 to help local frontline workers at Mercy Hospital. We’re a community bank in Oklahoma City and therefore supporting our community is one of our many goals it’s a value to us. It’s important to us to support the local community, said Erin Batey, the bank s communication and innovation officer and senior vice president.
With that, every health care worker directly involved in COVID-19 care at Mercy Hospital received a gift from the bank. A $550 cash gift just to say thank you to all 470 of them for taking care of Oklahomans. When they come in, we greet them at the door, and we say thank you so much and we appreciate what you’re doing for our community and our families. We offer them cookies, we offer them water, we offer them some Quail Creek Bank stuff. Then they come down this red carpet and we give them $550 while they are here, just to say thank you, Bately said.
Itasca County Commissioners Ben Denucci and Terry Snyder, along with Itasca County Health and Human Services (ICHHS) Division Manager Eric Villeneuve were in Bigfork this week to admire a brand new ambulance that the county purchased with Coronavirus Relief Funds provided through the CARES Act.Â
As a whole, Itasca County received $5,640,508 of Coronavirus Relief Funds last year. More than $2 million was distributed to area businesses in the form of Business Grants. According to Villeneuve, the qualifying expenditures that Itasca County spent with the aid had to be necessary, which was defined as incurred due to the public health emergency respective to the Coronavirus Disease and had to be incurred during the period of time of March 1 through Dec. 1, 2020.
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