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By Matt Prokopchuk, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, TBnewswatch.com KENORA \u2013 Ontario\u2019s Minister of Sport says a relatively new pot of provincial money is paying dividends when it comes to fixing up community arenas and other sports and recreation facilities. Neil Lumsden was in Wauzhushk Onigum, next to Kenora, in late July to help announce over $9 million from the province\u2019s community sport and recreation infrastructure fund to build a new arena and recreation complex in the First Nation. While that was the big-ticket item, provincial officials also highlighted several other projects in Northwestern Ontario that received money from the same fund. \u201cWe need to do some catching up in Ontario and the premier saw it that way and that’s how the fund was created and why,\u201d Lumsden said. \u201cIt\u2019s great… <\/p>\n

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By Matt Prokopchuk, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, TBnewswatch.com KENORA \u2013 Ontario\u2019s Minister of Sport says a relatively new pot of provincial money is paying dividends when it comes to fixing up community arenas and other sports and recreation facilities. Neil Lumsden was in Wauzhushk Onigum, next to Kenora, in late July to help announce over $9 million from the province\u2019s community sport and recreation infrastructure fund to build a new arena and recreation complex in the First Nation. While that was the big-ticket item, provincial officials also highlighted several other projects in Northwestern Ontario that received money from the same fund. \u201cWe need to do some catching up in Ontario and the premier saw it that way and that’s how the fund was created and why,\u201d Lumsden said. \u201cIt\u2019s great... <\/p>\n

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