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The 2012 review of South Dundas website statistics will serve as a benchmark to help measure the success of the site, and the impact of the work being done to build up online traffic to the site.

Nicole Sullivan, South Dundas economic development officer recently reviewed the statistics.

“Now that we have a benchmark, just under 90 visits per day, we can better comment on the success we’re having with viewership in the coming years,” Sullivan said.

Having now established a benchmark for viewership over the full year, Sullivan has some insight into what information viewers are most interested in and how they arrived at the site. 

Knowing how someone arrives at the South Dundas site, is a key piece of information that will allow Sullivan to work on increasing the use of the site.

While most of the traffic to the site appears to be locals seeking municipal information, the visit and business sections average 300 to 350 hits per month.

“I am always looking at ways to increase the number of visits,” said Sullivan.

With that in mind, Sullivan plans to work with community partners to strengthen the connection between their websites and the South Dundas website. She plans to dedicate some of the marketing budget to online advertisements linking viewers to the website.

Sullivan will continue to build on the information disseminated through the “Experience South Dundas” Facebook page. 

Four per cent of referrals to the South Dundas website come from that Facebook page. 

Twenty-one per cent of referrals come from the United Counties of SD&G website.

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Food bank usage in Dundas County continues to rise.

“Our usage is up 10 percent over last month,” said Brian Cox, a director with the Dundas County Food Bank who was at the Morrisburg location Friday morning to receive the large amount of food delivered by Ken Rundle, owner of the Morrisburg Giant Tiger store.

Cox thanked Rundle for the quantity of food and funds he delivered, courtesy of Giant Tiger shoppers. “This food is deeply required,” said Cox.

Giant Tiger recently wrapped up their food drive whereby the cashiers asked customers to make a donation to the food bank. 

One of the donation options was to donate $5 for a whole bag of food which included canned tomatoes, canned beans, caned flaked tuna, canned flaked ham, can flaked turkey and canned beans.

These food bags were tailored to feed the specific needs of this food bank.

“These items collected are among those that the food bank distributes on a regular basis and are always needs,” noted Dundas County Food Bank administrator Donna Quesnel. “Ken made an excellent choice in selecting these items and we are grateful to the Giant Tiger customers who purchased this food.”

Donations made equated to 75 bags of food, including $450 worth of food product. Another $150 in cash donations was also collected.

Rundle credits the community with the success of the food drive, which he plans to do again next year. “The support of the community was great. They are the ones who made this happen, we just facilitated.”

In seeing the most recent statistics showing increased need, Cox is pleased to have this food drive and others taking place. While the DC Youth plan on collecting food on Halloween, Creepy Creek Camp is accepting food donations for the food bank and the OPP Auxiliary are also planning an upcoming food drive.

“These are all deeply needed and appreciated,” said Cox.

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