The Lucknow Sentinel, 2014-08-13, Page 7Wednesday, August 13, 2014 • Lucknow Sentinel 7
Exploring the Local Impact
of Alice Munro's Nobel Prize
Employment Ontario Partners with
Municipalities and Huron County
Submitted
On August 6,2014 the Alice
Munro Partnership Group
announced the launch of a 15
month project exploring the
labour market opportunities
in tourism, retail, construc-
tion, education and literacy as
a result of Ms. Munro's Nobel
Prize win.
Alice Munro is the first
Canadian winner of the 2013
Nobel Prize for Literature.
Born in Wingham, Ontario
she currently resides in Clin-
ton, Ontario and Comox,
British Columbia.
The community is
already active in the pro-
motion of Alice Munro's
work and the ongoing con-
tributions she makes to the
international literary world
and is acutely aware of the
positive economic impacts
those promotional activi-
ties have had.
"Culture and tourism are
growing industries that not
only offer great potential
for jobs and investment but
also give us the opportunity
to showcase Ontario," says
Reza Moridi, Minister of
Training, Colleges and Uni-
versities. "I'm proud that
Employment Ontario is
supporting efforts to better
understand the local eco-
nomic benefit of sharing
Alice Munro's incredible
talent to the world."
"The global magnification
on Alice Munro and the area
due to the Nobel Prize pre-
sents us with new and inno-
vative economic opportuni-
ties and avenues of
possibilities" says Neil Vin-
cent, Reeve of the Township
of North Huron. He went on
to say that "here in Alice
Munro country, Alice made
the ordinary seem
extraordinary in her writing
and she definitely promoted
where she came from and
lived in her writing':
"The work being done
over the next year
through the Labour Mar-
ket Project," says Warden
Steffler, "will help build
audiences and interest in
our existing cultural
assets, for example, the
Alice Munro Writers and
Readers Festival and the
Alice Munro Literary
Garden. It will also
enhance the profile of
the County as a whole, as
well as the excellent cul-
tural experiences and
products that are availa-
ble in Huron County."
Mayor James Ginn of the
Municipality of Central
Huron said, "Central Huron
Council is proud to be a
partner. This study will allow
us to develop a plan to pro-
mote Alice Munro's litera-
ture and Huron County in
the most respectful and
appropriate way."
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