While the downtown core may be small, it is at capacity – with hopeful businesses currently on a wait list. The core will be undergoing a downtown revitalization project beginning in the summer of 2014 which will hopefully bring more people and businesses to the already bustling core.
Brighton has dedicated community residents that able to work together and create local solutions to issues that arise. Lorie Boychuk, owner of downtown shop Mrs. B’s Country Candy, is an entrepreneur who opened her store in her 40s with one goal in mind: to hire older workers who typically have trouble finding work. And she’s been extremely successful, doubling the size of her once small shop and expanding into an industrial site which hires four full time and four part time workers. Like many small business owners downtown, Lorie looks for ways to work cooperatively, not competitively with her neighbours.
Brighton’s high school - East Northumberland Secondary School – is another point of pride for its residents. The school hosts a unique Specialist High Skills Major Program that allows students to earn a high school diploma while focusing on careers that match a student’s skills and interests, such as manufacturing, transportation, arts and culture, primary industries, hospitality and tourism and construction.
