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The 28th annual Welcome To Timmins Night will be held on Aug. 18, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
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About 40 exhibitors will take up three blocks of Third Avenue on Wednesday night.
“It’s very exciting. We’re looking forward to it,” said Shashanka Rangi, Timmins Local Immigration Partnership (TLIP) co-ordinator.
Kirkland Lake Gold has donated $3,000 for the event. A cheque presentation with the organizing committee members and a representative from Kirkland Lake Gold was held downtown today.
“A lot of our employees live in Timmins and it’s important to us that we’re supporting the town where our people live and work,” said Stephanie LaBelle, Kirkland Lake Gold’s community relations manager. “This is a great event for newcomers to get to know about the services, the clubs and organizations in Timmins. We’re proud to be a part of it.”
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The ‘Cochrane Loves Local’ initiative, led by the Cochrane & District Chamber of Commerce and Cochrane Tourism, encourages the online sharing of local shopping experiences in exchange for prizes.
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“We’re pretty proud in Cochrane that we’re one of the first chambers that’s stepping up to make this announcement of this program,” said chamber president Ozzie Sawicki.
“It’s a marketing campaign. The campaign is really to focus the interest on our local businesses, and it’s designed to create a platform so that it’s not just about ‘go and shop local,’ we worked through that before, now it’s engaging people to create opportunities to talk about why it’s important to shop local, who the local businesses are that you really found amazing in your paths.”