Business View Magazine | March 2018

131 generating interest from the development community to invest in our downtown core.We’re alsoworking on a Community Improvement Plan for industrial and commercial sites in our community.We’re looking at incentives to clean up dirtyproperties and bring them intomore productive uses,as well as attractingmore industrial and commercial investment.” Timmins’Chief AdministrativeOfficer,Dave Land- ers,mentions yet another local project-a partnership between theNorthern College of AppliedArts and Technologyand the Cochrane District Social Services Administration Board,for a Center of Excellence for Integrated EmergencyServices at theNorthern Col- lege campus.“The college has started construction at a site that is going to teach emergency services-police and fire services and paramedic services-in a building that’s integratedwith an ambulancebaseandavolun- teer firehall,”hesays.“TheCityofTimmins is responsible for fireservicesandwe’removingourvolunteer fireser- viceoutof a70-year-oldbuildingand intothenewCenter of Excellence,which is slatedtoopen inthe fall.” Newprojectsandtraditional pastimesall combine to makeTimmins,Ontario,truly,theCitywithaHeartofGold. PREFERRED VENDORS n Sword Security Canada www.swordsecurity.ca Sword Security was founded in Ireland in the late 1990s by Diarmuid Smyth and became the leading supplier of crowd management and event security services in the country, be- fore expanding into the UK market in 2006. The UK opera- tions grew quickly due to the quality of the company’s service and professionalism, and in 2011, it was awarded the contract for Crowd Management and Stewarding for the Olympic Park and other LOCOG venues for the London Olympic Games of 2012. In 2013 Sword acquired Lowell Security and launched in Canada, where it is now a leading provider of services to the sports and entertainment sectors in Toronto, as well as maintaining operations in Northern Ontario under the Lowell brand. n EBC, Inc. www.ebcinc.com