A group of Acute nurses from the Drumheller Health Centre, along with several other volunteers, have been doing some re-decorating in town this spring.
    The Dino Arts Association has been getting lots of phone calls and messages thru social media to give the dinosaurs a new paint job. John Shoff, chair of the Dino Arts Association Committee, said one third of the entire collection of dinosaurs has gotten a repaint this spring.
    “Some of the designs are the best I’ve seen to date,” Shoff said.
    Shoff also mentioned that the Association has partnered with Drumheller Institution’s Inmate Work Release program to have them prime the dinosaurs prior to volunteers painting them.
    Some of the volunteers who have helped to repaint the dinosaurs include, Renee Hall who repainted the teal/black/white dinosaur by Extra Foods, Kim Suntjens who painted the green dinosaur by Canalta Jurassic Inn. Courtney Bell and Josh Yemen painted the dinosaur by Valley Plaza black and orange giving it a fiery look. Boston Pizza’s dodo bird got a repaint this year as well by Cindy Clark. Karla Hutchinson and Heather Jones gave the dinosaur by Canadian Tire a skeleton look and the Riverside Value Drug Mart staff gave their dinosaur outside of the store a repaint.  The acute care nurses painted the dinosaur outside 3rd Avenue Arts and Just You and I as a nurse dinosaur.
    “I want to give a huge thank you to the many volunteer painters as they have really done an amazing job this year,” he said.
    If anyone is interested in volunteering to paint one of the dinosaurs, contact Marley at the Drumheller and District Chamber of Commerce at 403-823-4100 or contact the Dino Arts Association Facebook page.

An area senior wasn’t aware of the potential of fraud until receiving a suspicious phone call.
    Pat Nelson tells The Mail she recently received a phone call from a 1-800 number she did not recognize. She allowed it to go to her voice mail.
    “The caller was looking for my husband and said he had some serious business with him. He said he was from Revenue Canada Criminal Investigations,” said Nelson.
     “I knew my husband didn’t do anything wrong, and I knew there was something fishy about this,” she said.
     Nelson brought this information to Rose Poulsen, the Seniors Services coordinator in Drumheller.  She looked up the number, it came from what appeared to be a bonafide Revenue Canada number, however the number the caller requested she use to call back was not.
    “The other number had been shut down due to suspected criminal activity,” said Nelson. “Now I am wondering how many other seniors they have targeted.”
    She also reported the incident to the Drumheller RCMP, who recommended she call the Canadian Anti-fraud Centre.
    She hopes other people get the message to protect themselves.
    “I am worried some other senior is going to be targeted,” she said. “It is scary to get a call from Revenue Canada saying you are going to be criminally investigated.”
    Corporal Kevin Charles of the Drumheller RCMP says the right thing to do is contact the anti-fraud centre.
    “They are a section of the RCMP based out of Ontario. They have a database and they compile all of this and if they get multiple complaints they may be able to narrow it down to somebody, and they can forward it to a detachment to lay a charge,” he said.
    He also says she was right to be suspicious.
    “Revenue Canada would not initiate contact like that, obviously don’t provide any personal information.”
     He says if you are convinced it is legitimate there are ways of verifying the incident.
    “Simply hang up and call Revenue Canada directly… not the number they provide, but a number from the phone book or a tax form, and verify and validate information to see if there is some possible truth to it,” he said.