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Town striking task force for fountain park

The town is looking at striking a task force to look at the development of the fountain and surrounding park.

Council has discussed the future of the fountain area and recommendations were presented for the future of the fountain.

These recommendations included:

That the fountain is salvageable, and can therefore be incorporated into the design of the Flood Mitigation and Adaptation Measures for the Rotary Park area;

That detailed designs and estimates need to be completed with costs for different uses of the area. The cost estimates provided at the meeting are completed at a very high level and need more detail to properly inform a decision on the repairs of the fountain;

That detailed operating cost estimates for the possible operational methods need to be created and That a task force be established within the community, including Rotary representatives, to review

the long term plans for the area.

“Council agreed with the above recommendations and now administration will start working on these items. We want to meet the needs of residents and visitors the best we can within our budget,” outlined Darryl Drohomerski, CAO. “Therefore this task group, with representation from the Rotary Club of Drumheller and other community members will create a series of cost effective options; which will then be put to the public for comment.”

“Before the fountain was removed we wanted to ensure that we had investigated every aspect to save this much loved facility,” added Dave Brett, Director of Infrastructure. “With thorough investigative and methodical work we came up with a solution to keep the fountain operating, albeit in a modified way. We will now work on the possibilities for the area and supporting the task force in their decision making.”

The task force will be created shortly and the public are encouraged to look out for the engagement piece for the fountain area.

Advance polls open

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For those anxious to cast their ballot or unable to attend regular polling stations, advance polls for the federal election opened today across the country.

Advance voting days run over the Thanksgiving weekend from today, October 11, to Monday, October 14. In Drumheller, voters can vote at the Badlands Community Facility from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on those days.

There are many ways to make your vote. Many residents have already received voting cards in the mail, and you can vote at any Elections Canada office in person before October 15. Election day is Monday, October 21 and there will be a number of polling stations throughout the valley.

East Coulee studio’s giant turtle, skull replicas exhibited in top Australian museum

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Dinosaur Valley Studios continues to put Drumheller on the map with two fossil replicas are being featured prominently in a new exhibit in one of Australia’s top museums.

The studio, based in East Coulee and specialized in fabricating and designing prehistoric fossil and bone models, recently shipped out two giant replicas to the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney. A Shonisaurus skull and a prehistoric sea turtle skull are being prominently featured in the museum’s ‘Sea Monsters, Prehistoric Ocean Predators’ exhibit, which opened in late September and runs into April 2020. The exhibition combines real fossils from millions of years ago and giant replicas like the two fabricated by Dinosaur Valley Studios.

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Frank Hadfield says the studio was contacted by the museum after they heard of them through the internet, and his team started creating the fossils in May this year. He says this is the fourth continent that studio has sent work too.

“It’s quite a feather in our cap,” he says, adding the studio has seen its clients and work diversify and continue to grow globally over the years.

“We deal a lot internationally, but this was the first Australian display we’ve done but it went so well we are anticipating more work in Australia and Asia as well.”

The Shonisaurus skull is 14 foot long and anatomically accurate to the real sea monster which lived millions of years ago, a fossil of which was found in British Columbia and measured to 70 feet in length.

The Australian National Maritime Museum is the country’s centre for maritime collections, exhibitions, research, and archaeology, welcoming over 850,000 visitors annually.

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