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Manitoulin Centennial Manor receives funds for courtyard project

LITTLE CURRENT – Manitoulin Centennial Manor board of management received some great news regarding funding for a project that will benefit Manor residents.

“This is a real positive,” said Pat MacDonald, chair of the Manor board during a meeting last week. She pointed out that the Manor courtyard project has received a New Horizons grant of $25,000. Ms. MacDonald also noted Wendy Gauthier has supplied that, in the 2021 Tree of Lights fundraising campaign, a total of $14,000.79 has been raised thus far.” 

As has been reported previously, a donor family came forward to provide the funds to complete the courtyard project, which has an estimated target cost of $200,000-$250,000. 

Jennifer  Harvey, a landscape architect, has been engaged to provide the designs for the courtyard project and has also offered to oversee the contractor’s implementation of the design. 

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Tom Sasvari
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Tom Sasvari serves as the West Manitoulin news editor for The Expositor. Mr. Sasvari is a graduate of North Bay’s Canadore College School of Journalism and has been employed on Manitoulin Island, at the Manitoulin West Recorder, and now the Manitoulin Expositor, for more than a quarter-century. Mr. Sasvari is also an active community volunteer. His office is in Gore Bay.