The Citizen, 2015-05-07, Page 29THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, MAY 7, 2015. PAGE 29.
Huron County’s new Creative
Countryside Job Creation
Partnership Project is set to take off
from its new home at the former
Blyth Public School.
The project will be working in
concert with a number of cultural
and heritage organizations
throughout Huron County to create
full- and part-time jobs that both get
residents back to work and to do so
in a creative fashion.
There will be 13 positions
available in total and applicants must
be unemployed or underemployed
and receiving regular Employment
Insurance (EI) benefits, have
received EI benefits within the past
three years or have received
maternity or parental EI benefits in
the past five years.
Placements are up to 42 weeks at
35 hours per week and some
weekend and/or evening work may
be required.
Paul Nichol and Joan van der
Meer will be working with the
program, administering the program
out of the former Blyth Public
School.
In an interview with The Citizen,
Nichol said that the pair have
worked on similar programs in
Brussels in the past out of the
Brussels Business and Cultural
Centre, but due to the Blyth’s
building’s proximity to a number of
participating organizations, it only
made sense to set up shop in Blyth.
Nichol and van der Meer both
speak highly of this, and other
Employment Ontario programs that
have been rolled out in Huron in the
past. Van der Meer says that over the
years, over 50 people have been
placed through the program in
Huron County with an 85 per cent
success rate.
She says that if applicants meet the
criteria of the position, the program
is a great way for people with a
particular set of job skills to put
those skills to work in a creative
field, while at the same time learning
some new skills.
There are two ways to view the
project, says van der Meer, and the
first is that the world of arts and
culture will be supported through the
program. The second way to view
success of the project would be in
her main capacity over the years,
which is getting people who are out
of a job back to work in a field
they’ll enjoy.
With the creative focus of the
program, van der Meer says,
everybody wins in the end.
There are 13 positions being
offered by 12 different
organizations. They are: Rural
Innovative Research Assistant with
Blyth 14/19, Marketing and Social
Media Assistant with Blyth 14/19,
International Plowing Match
Assistant with the International
Plowing Match 2017 committee,
Economic Impacts Report Assistant
with the Huron County Cultural
Services, Cultural Tourism Product
Researcher with Regional Tourism
Organization 4 (RTO 4) and the
Huron Tourism Association,
Archives Assistant with the Huron
County Archives, Social
Media/Office Assistant with Huron’s
Creative Countryside Project,
Assistant Arts Administrator for the
Blyth Festival, Social Enterprise
Assistant with the Huron Business
Development Corporation, Huron
Arts and Heritage Network Co-
ordinator with the Huron Arts and
Heritage Network and Huron
County Cultural Services, Arts and
Culture Project Assistant with the
Alice Munro Festival Committee
and Township of North Huron,
Digital Media Researcher with
Huron’s Creative Countryside
project and FauxPop and Art aRound
Town Co-ordinator with Art aRound
Town.
To apply, applicants are to e-mail
their résumé and cover letter to van
der Meer, project manager at
jvandermeer@
smallbusinesshuron.ca. Applicants
can call the centre at 226-523-6337.
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The Citizen
In observance of the Victoria Day
holiday, The Citizen’s offices will be
closed on Monday, May 18.
The deadlines for the May 21
issue of The Citizen will therefore be
shifted to Friday, May 15 at 2 p.m. at
the Brussels office and at 4 p.m. at
the Blyth office.
The Citizen staff wishes all of its
readers, supporters and community
members a safe and happy May long
weekend.
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