SARNIA, ON: To support the recently branded Ontario’s Hydrogen Hub, a low-carbon hydrogen strategy is to be developed by the Sarnia-Lambton Economic Partnership. The strategy will provide a business case for industry, define targeted pathways to attract hydrogen related foreign direct investments, and assist existing local facilities to influence corporate decision making with the goal … Read More
LAMBTON COUNTY – As part of the Ontario government’s plan to connect every community to high speed internet by 2025, more than 570 homes, farms and businesses in Lambton County will have access to high-speed internet service by December 2022, thanks to the construction of a new $6 million infrastructure network in the communities of … Read More
The Ontario government launched the Advanced Manufacturing and Innovation Competitiveness (AMIC) program. The two-year, $40 million program will support advanced manufacturing businesses to invest in the equipment, advanced technologies and skilled workforce needed to improve competitiveness and growth. Ontario Launches Program to Support Advanced Manufacturers Across Province | Ontario Newsroom Eligible advanced manufacturing companies can … Read More
Does your small business need help navigating the world of digital marketing or pivoting to online sales? Sarnia-Lambton Economic Partnership’s Digital Main Street Program is here to help. Through our programs such as – ShopHere and Future Proof – locally owned small businesses and artists in Sarnia-Lambton County will be able to access free e-commerce … Read More
Kniaziew Optometry continues its strong growth – expanding into Sarnia-Lambton with a new location in Petrolia. Their newest office will be at 413 Wingfield Street, right across from historic Victoria Hall. This is the first of 3 planned locations over the next 12 months in Sarnia-Lambton. The Kniaziew Optometry team will be taking over the … Read More
Lambton County’s population grew by just over 1,000 in 2019, according to estimates by Statistics Canada. The total estimated population for the 11 municipalities that make up the county – and the three First Nations within its borders – was 132,243 in 2019, compared to 131,236 in 2018, according to a report prepared by Lambton’s … Read More
There’s a new chairperson at the Sarnia-Lambton Economic Partnership (SLEP.) Business owner Katherine Walker took on leadership of the partnership’s board this week at its annual meeting, stepping in for retiring chairperson Alex Palimaka, a senior executive at Bluewater Power. Palimaka served for 13 years on the board of the Lambton County-funded economic development agency … Read More
Pauline Scouler says she was enormously relieved when Point Edward-based Creative Education Inc. was deemed an essential service and she was called back to work. “I’m not one to sit around,” said Scouler, 80, the longest-employed seamstress at the company’s production plant. For more than two decades Scouler has stood on her feet for 10 … Read More
A company that delivers in-home care to seniors has opened its latest franchise in Sarnia. Home Instead Senior Care owner Victoria Chalmers said their facility at 327 Wellington St. opened on June 1. She said they’ve been servicing area clients since their London office opened 10 years ago. “Opening up a new business in the climate of COVID is not ideal, … Read More
A new “one-stop” job-posting site is now available to help people find work in Sarnia-Lambton. The ‘Work In Sarnia Lambton’ (WISL) tool kit was launched June 1 by the Sarnia Lambton Workforce Development Board and currently has about 700 individual job postings, says the SLWDB’s Mikelle Bryson-Campbell. The site at https://www.slwdb.org/was in the works prior to … Read More
