Minto provides matching funds for façade improvements, signs

Several local businesses will benefit from the town’s façade improvement and signage grant program.

At the Sept. 13 meeting, Minto council approved  façade improvement grants for Sind Investments, a total of $5,335 to improve facades on properties at 237 and 247 Main St. W. in Palmerston.

The properties include the newly-opened Family Home Health Care Centre, which will use the funds for  painting, windows and stucco repair.

The business will also receive a signage grant of $814.

Kemspton and Werth Realty Ltd. is located at 247 Main Street West. Sind investments is planning to install new vinyl windows on the upper floor, paint the exterior of store front, cap wood frame windows with aluminum, dress up transom over the entry door and install aluminum soffit on the underside of the overhang of storefront.

Also approved was a $1,500 grant to Harry Stone’s Pizza Burger and Ale House in Harriston to help pay for decorative paint on upper storey window boards.

Restaurant opening

James and Jo-Anne Weltz, new owners of the former Greenley’s Restaurant in Clifford plan to open a restaurant called Gramma Jo’s this fall and will receive a $1,000 signage grant.

The Weltzs are previous owners of the Redwood Restaurant, noted economic and business manger Belinda Wick-Graham in her report to council.