You might see more murals being painted on walls in downtown Timmins laneways this summer.
The city has been given a one-time grant of $67,000 to spend downtown, by the Association of Municipalities of Ontario and the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs.
So council set up a committee to recommend how to spend it.
BIA executive director Noella Rinaldo says at the first committee meeting, the art idea topped the options list. It’s also what City Hall has identified.
“It would make the downtown more lively and thinking that in the winter we have eight months of winter,” Rinaldo notes. “ That’s the one thing that does stand out is our murals. In the wintertime, they’re still there.”
Because the money can be added to grants available for indigenous art, Rinaldo says that would be one theme.
“At least some of them will be with the indigenous program, as far as murals go,” she says, “and then the other ones then I guess that’s going to be up for discussion if that’s the way the committee decides to go.”
The committee will report to city council, which has final approval.