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Lincoln adopts 5-year tourism action plan By Mike Williscraft NewsNow The Town of Lincoln has put its money where its mouth is by adopting a five-year Tourism Action Plan. “We believe tourism is a key pillar to drive sustainable growth that serves the long-term interest of our economy, businesses, environment and our citizens,” says Town of Lincoln Mayor Sandra Easton. “This plan lays the groundwork for making Lincoln a leading tourist destination in Ontario.”
Initial steps have included: • Approving a fiveyear tourism action plan; • Securing funding from the Tourism Industry Association of Ontario, and; • Working with the Twenty Valley Tourism Association (TVTA) to re-envision the destination marketing organization. Part of the formula for the plan includes at $146,000 grant from the Tourism Association of Ontario. See TOURISM, Page 3
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GBF food bank coordinator Dean Foster and executive director Stacy Elia posing next to the GBF bus can only mean one thing: it is back-to-school season once again. The Benevolent Fund is one of the community service organizations that will be helping struggling families in West Niagara prepare for a new school year. Please turn to Page 8 for more details. Marks - Photo
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By Tristan Marks NewsNow Shoppers, restaurant goers and clients who frequent downtown Grimsby over the next two months may have an opportunity to leave with more money than they arrived. Grimsby’s Downtown Improvement Area Board has put together a unique shopping spree promotion which will include a weekly $500 shopping spree to be used at any DIA business. The first draw period will be Aug. 13 to Aug. 20. “This is something we have set up in a way that any customer or client
of any business could be a lucky winner. All anyone has to do is spend more than $25 at any DIA business to be eligible,” said DIA president Mike Williscraft. “Someone could be paying an insurance or legal bill. They could be eligible. A couple going out for dinner or someone buying a new top or dress shirt could win. For the DIA, it is rare opportunity to include all businesses in an activity should they choose.” The program also connects to the Canada United program, a Shop Canadian, Shop Local themed event sponsored by Royal Bank of Canada
and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. Under this program, Canadians are encouraged to shop and eat locally during the Canada United Weekend from Aug. 28-30 and watch Canada United videos online at GoCanadaUnited.ca As well, one can like posts from @GoCanadaUnited on social media and use #CanadaUnited on Twitter to demonstrate their support. For each of these actions until Aug. 31. RBC will contribute five cents up to a maximum contribution amount of $2 million to the Canada United Small Business Relief Fund, while working with government and cor-
porate partners to source additional contributions to the fund during the course of the campaign, according to RBC’s website. The Fund will provide small Canadian businesses with grants of up to $5,000 to cover expenses related to personal protective equipment (PPE), renovations to accommodate re-opening guidelines and developing or improving e-commerce capabilities. “Participating businesses will submit eligible customers for the draw each week. Winners will be contacted and asked what businesses would See DIA, Page 4
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From Page 1 “The money secured will go towards marketing and supporting the tourism industry here in Lincoln. The goal is to drive awareness of our tourism assets and tap into the local and GTHA markets to have Ontarians “visit your own backyard,” said Paul Di Ianni, Lincoln economic development officer, who noted the five-year outline was developed to allow time for flexibility throughout. “We selected a fiveyear rollout as it allows us time to implement the overall goals of the strategy, which includes upgrading our wayfinding and gateway features throughout the community. The wayfinding and gateway updates will be implemented over the five-year period, whereas a lot of the heavy lifting on the
changes to our Destination Marketing Organization (DMO) will happen on the front end of the five-year strategy. While there is an action plan associated with it, we view it as a living document that will allow us to modify as needed.” Part of the plan is to evolve Twenty Valley Tourism Association into the workings of the municipality. “During the transition
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From Page 1 they like gift certificates for and they can divide the $500 prize up among as many as three different businesses should they choose,” said Williscraft. “With the prizes being run week to week, all personal information will be deleted after the week’s draw is conducted and it would never be used for any other purpose.” This promotion comes on the heels of The Big Spend, a national one-day promotion designed to spur local economies. “At our DIA board meeting last week, the
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Facilities Re-open Town Hall: 4800 South Service Rd., Beamsville • If possible, please call ahead to book an appointment for Town services: 905-563-8205 or visit lincoln.ca to access services online
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be handing out backto-school supplies from Aug. 24 to 28. As part of COVID safety, registered families have 30-minute intervals to themselves to receive the care packages outside of the CCWN building in downtown Beamsville. Families unable to make one of these dates can call to arrange a special time. In addition to backpacks, students can pick out new shoes thanks to the return of the Snack ‘n’ Sneakers program supported by Canadian Tire. CCWN will also give each student a free, reusable face mask, provided by commUNITY, a nonmedical face mask producer based in Toronto. VoH will distribute school and snack supplies starting Aug. 20. Students will also get a
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West Lincoln Memorial Hospital (WLMH) Foundation chair Kevin Antonides (Left) and Giant Tiger Grimsby owner Andy Daniels show off examples of face masks the retail store started selling last month. Masks are sold for $1 to help residents comply with Niagara’s manditory facemask bylaw. Furthermore, every dollar from the mask sales will be given to support the WLMH Foundation. Marks - Photo
A tale of two towns In the last 10 years, Town of Lincoln has developed a consistent theme of plan the work and work the plan. That baseline of programming is advancing into the tourism realm, as has been noted on this page previously. Lincoln’s passing of a five-year tourism development plan ensures the municipality and its cadre of tourism-based businesses will have a voice moving forward, and they will need it given current circumstances. Now, not to compare Grimsby and Lincoln on tourism-based attractions as Lincoln outnumbers Grimsby 10-1 on the business front, but there are a handful of wineries, various attractions and the new Canalside Soda company in Grimsby. Yet, Town of Grimsby has essentially voiced no interest in promoting tourism in town. One municipality embraces the future and opts to drive the industry, the other ignores it. This is doubly odd given Grimsby’s new investment in an economic development officer. It seems tourism is not part of the economy Grimsby wants developed. M.W.
Grimsby shopping can make you money A quick word about last week’s ramblings....masks are good. Masks do suppress the spread of COVID-19, no question. The heart of my concern was the bylaw approved at Niagara Region was rushed, poorly worded at points, and would have been far more appropriate in late March or early April. I had one call and one email on the topic, so that means there would be other readers that may have taken any comments as anti-mask. Not at all. I want to make that crystal clear. For me, I hate them. They are horribly uncomfortable, especially in this heat but that does not mean I would not wear one where required, of course I will. The whole situation is unfortunate all the way around. ****** Next week will mark the first in a series of draws for a downtown Grimsby shopping spree, courtesy of the Downtown Improvement Area Board. In my 25-plus years in town, for more than half of that time I have been a member of the DIA’s board of directors. That’s nuts, but just the way I am wired, I guess. This promotion is the first program I’ve seen run which could benefit every business in the DIA area since any retailer, servicebased or restaurant can not only have one of their customers/clients win but they could have their business chosen to have a winning $500 gift certificate redeemed. It may sound simple to connect the dots, but it is not. In any DIA world, what is good for retailers is not always good for restaurants or service-based enterpris-
MIKE WILLISCRAFT es such as insurance offices or accountants. DIAs do a lot of things - in a normal year - such as sponsoring major events like Happening in Grimsby and the Santa Claus parade. For an organization which has a core mandate of beautification in its geographic footprint to creating promotions to bring traffic to that same footprint, there are limitations to what can and should be done. In these times, any traditional challenges are magnified 10-fold. With a promotion such as the shopping spree we have teed up, normally we would have customers fill out a ballot after completing their purchase. However, part of the consideration reviewed at the DIA board meeting last week was keeping things as COVID unfriendly as possible - meaning notouch entries. So those serving customers will, largely, ask for a name and contact information to be submitted for that week’s draw. It is also important to note, that any personal information will be destroyed after each draw is done. The physical health of all visitors to any Grimsby business is number one for all of us as is protection of everyone’s
personal information. When I was first on the DIA back in the late 90s, neither of those things were real concerns. Times change and our board likes to think we are doing all we can to be at the front of the wave where possible, not following. This is the first time we’ve done something like that - and it is tied in Canada United which has a focal point of Aug. 28-30 - as well. That RBC program can help small businesses coast to coast as we all attempt to survive the current tumultuous economic climate. On that, the timing with a “Shop Canadian. Shop Local.” campaign could not have been better timed with good ol’ 45 spewing his economic bile north of the border with new tariffs on Canadian goods last week. Many local merchants have noticed a surge in shop local comments and mentality. The tariffs added an additional reason to check labels. Consumers certainly have a choice in where they shop and they also have a choice in shopping for items originating from Canadian manufacturers. Now, since much of Canada’s manufacturing infrastructure has been whittled away in recent decades, it is still there. One just has to look a little. It just adds another layer to the shop local theme and there certainly is no time better for that to happen. Best of luck to all who visit downtown over the next several weeks. Winners will be able to split their winnings up over as many as three different stores, so they’ll be able to cover a lot of ground. Happy shopping and eating!
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