The Town of Minto is getting $3.2-million to help with infrastructure needs in two communities.
$1.9-million will be used for work on Elora St. in Clifford to improve road safety. The money coming from the province's Connecting Links program.
Minto Mayor George Bridge says without the grant, the long overdue projects could not have gone ahead, particularly the rebuilding of Clifford’s main street which is the Hwy. 9 connecting link.
"So people in Clifford will finally get their main street redone," says Bridge. "And not only just for the people in Clifford. There is 20,000 people on the weekend's going to their cottages."
The engineering and preparatory work will go ahead this year in Clifford, but the actual reconstruction will wait to 2018 so as not to interfere with the Clifford Homecoming in 2017.
$1.3-million will go towards infrastructure work on Jane St. and Inkerman St. in Palmerston. That includes water and sewer line replacement which will start this year. The money is part of the province's Ontario Community Infrastructure Fund.
