Historical signs in Oil Springs and Petrolia, historical book projects and a Lambton County film project are all receiving money from Lambton’s Creative County grants.

Up to $75,000 in funding is available to arts projects each year. Committee officials say this year there were applications almost $200,000 in projects.

Officials say $35,000 is set aside for projects which have an impact across Lambton. Another $10,000 is provided for four corners of the county for local projects.

Here’s the list of projects which received this year’s funding.

• $5,000 to Sarnia-Lambton Rebound to support its Act II expressive arts program
for youth

• $3,400 to Town of Plympton-Wyoming to support wayfinding signage to promote
the Plympton-Wyoming museum

• $2,000 to Inwood 150th Celebration Committee to support the publication of a
commemorative book

• $6,045 to Oil Museum of Canada Foundation to support the installation of new
historical interpretive signs, an audio tour and historical flags throughout the
Village of Oil Springs

• $1,500 to Community Living Sarnia-Lambton to support its Art is for Everyone
arts program initiative

• $4,575 to John Howard Society of Sarnia-Lambton for its Educational Community
Awareness Support Through Art program

• $2,000 to Lambton Concert Band to support a year of musical celebration to
mark the 25th anniversary of the concert band within Lambton County

• $1,000 to Dr. Eliana Elkhoury to support literacy kits offered through the Arabic
Literacy Enrichment Program

• $2,000 to artist Liana Russwurm to support the Brooke-Alvinston Youth Art
Workshops

• $7,350 to Electric Motion Pictures / Aaron Huggett to support the Lambton
County film Within A War

• $2,250 to Esther Tolooei to support the research and writing of a book about the
1918 Flu Pandemic in Lambton County

• $5,000 to Bonnie Sitter to support a documentary film about Farmerettes, who
volunteered through the Ontario Farm Service Force (1941-1952)

• $6,000 to Petrolia Volunteer Business Group to support educational plaques that
will explain the historic significance of buildings in downtown Petrolia

• $2,800 to The Culture Capture Project / Ryan Lindsay to support the
development of an educational holographic display of war chief Young Gull for
use in museums.

• $2,500 to Huron Shores Area Transit to support the engagement of Indigenous
artists for a bus shelter art project at Kettle & Stony Point First Nation

• $3,500 to Le Centre communautaire Francophone de Sarnia-Lambton to create
a French-language song and accompanying video about Sarnia-Lambton.

• $1,500 to Sarnia Concert Association to work with community groups to provide
free tickets to engage a more diverse audience to its concert series

• $2,000 to IODE Margaret Stokes Chapter, Petrolia to support its 75th anniversary
high tea and luncheon event

• $2,500 to Bridgeview Public School to support a mural for its school learning
commons project

• $2,700 to Kiwanis Club of Forest to support new activities with the Indigenous
Film and Food Festival