The Elliot Lake – Blind River area will share about $800,000 to improve housing, mental health and addictions programs. Huron Lodge in Elliot Lake is getting $250,000 for its assisted living program and another 100-thousand is earmarked for the assisted living program at the North Shore Tribal Council. The tribal council is also getting almost $210,000 for its mental health program. In addition, a First Nation treatment centre in Blind River gets $136,000 to help people recovering from drug addictions. The grants were part of a larger $2.6 million announcement by the Ontario government for the entire Algoma District.
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Area benefits from provincial funding announcements
Rocco Frangione
I've been a broadcast journalist for three-plus decades in Northern Ontario. I'm a graduate of Algonquin College's radio and television arts program and prior to that, an honours grad from Carleton University's philosophy program.
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