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Business Listing
Jake's Kwik Way Convenience Store and Gas Bar Description forthcoming
Aborigional Business Service Network 
Aboriginal Business Services Network The Lennox Island Development Centre is Home to an Aboriginal Business Service Network Satellite office.
Indian Arts and Crafts of North America Scenic shore location overlooking beautiful Malpeque Bay. The
shop features many examples of traditional and non-traditional
native crafts such as beadwork, carvings, drums, pipes, masks,
pottery, rattles, jewellery, headdresses, moccasins. Also birch-bark
novelty items, books, prints, stationery, T-shirts, dolls and
sweetgrass. Specializing in Mi'kmaq Doreen M. Sark.
MicMac Productions Exporting: United States Products include fine earthware figurines and pottery of gloosecap legends. The Gloosecap collection is a numbered series of eight original figurines depicting the creation of the MicMac people and their homeland. Mr.Charlie Sark: Owner/Manager
Inland Sand Description forthcoming
Projects
Lennox Island Streetscape Plan: Phase 1 and 2 During the spring and summer of 2005, Phase 1 of the Lennox Island Streetscape Plan will be built. The Streetscape will include building a sidewalk from the entrance to "The Path of Our Forefathers" to the Ecotourism Complex (including parking and curbing around St. Anne's Church) and down to the entrance to Indian Feather Path. The Streetscape Project will include sidewalks, decorative streetlights, benches, parking lots, curbing and tree-plantings. Additionally, the decorative streetlights will extend to Jake's Kwik Way along the planned route for Phase 2 of the Streetscape plan. Phase 2 will be undertaken in 2005. Future phases of the Streetscape program will expand the improvement area throughout the community. Plans can be viewed at the Development and Growth Office in the Band Office.
Trail Expansion/Improvements Further development of "The Path of Our Forefathers" is planned for the summer of 2005. This will include 1.2 km of new trail at the northside of Lennox Island (where the trail currently only follows the beach). The new trail will include more boardwalks and interpretation. If the budget permits, we plan on resurfacing the long loop of the trail as well.
Hostel Completion Plans are in place to complete the Hostel floor of the Ecotourism Complex. This will be a welcome addition to the Ecotourism product. The Hostel will sleep about 14 people for extremely reasonable rates - which should provide a needed boost to all Lennox Island-based business.
Canada Games2009 / Band Office Lennox Island First Nation will be hosting Wrestling during the 2009 Canada Summer Games. An assessment of the needs of the Games and the cost of bringing our existing facility up to the Canada Games standard has caused us to pursue the construction of a new Band Office and Canada Games facility. The Canada Games facility must be completed for a national wrestling event during the summer of 2008, which will require that construction begin in early 2007 at the latest. Our goal is to have a details related to design, construction costs and financing completed during 2005, so that an orderly tendering process can be undertaken in early 2006. Provided all funding targets are met, you can look forward to fully accessible Band Offices, fitness facilities, a judo room, business opportunities, new Day Care, Head Start, Kindergarten and Family Services areas, as well as dedicated space for elders and youth and adult education program. Improved facilities for major events such as St. Anne's Sunday, Winter Pow Wows and Conferences will make the facility an excellent legacy of the 2009 Canada Games. The facility will be constructed to a C-2000 standard behind the current Band Office and will necessitate the construction of a new Public Works compound during 2006. After the 2009 Canada Games facility is completed, the current Band Office will be dismantled and - if possible - re-assembled as a storage facility at another location on Lennox Island. This new, energy efficient facility should be both a savings for LIFN on-going operations and as well as a long-term revenue generator for the Band.
Energy Projects A number of renewable energy and energy efficiency projects are currently underway. Wind Testing has been taking place on Lennox Island since June 28, 2004. We are currently reviewing our options for proceeding with a Wind-related development. The Community Energy Baseline has been completed and the results will be presented in the May edition of "Kwimu." A model renewable energy centre is being proposed in concert with the "Innovation and Technology Partnership." The model centre would demonstrate and apply on number of renewable energy technologies for public demonstration and monitoring. Plans will be available for viewing in May 2005. |