Tantramar council has approved two small grants recommended by Renaissance Sackville, an organization founded in 1994 which aims to offer seed funding and support to new community initiatives. Each year, the town budgets $25,000 for Renaissance Sackville, and over the course of the year the group submits a series of small grant recommendations to council for approval.
On Tuesday council approved giving Art Across the Marsh $950 to hire a designer redo their website in advance of the tour this October. The group celebrates artists from across the Tantramar Region. And a new group called MarshMends will receive $3011 to get established as a non-profit offering training, workshops and repair services aimed at reducing fabric waste.
Councillor Debbie Wiggins-Colwell sounded supportive of both projects, but expressed concern that the grant to MarshMends would help cover incorporation fees.
In the end, council approved both grants, with one nay vote from Councillor Bruce Phinney, who said he felt one of the projects benefitted “too few people.”
