Contact the Humber Valley Development Association at 635-3861. Martin von Mirbach, one of the organizers, says the institute will promote leadership and innovation in environmental education. The program will focus on the boreal forest ecology and integrated resource management. The program will be activity based, exploring some of the tools used to teach forest issues. Teachers will tour a school yard to learn how to bring nature to the children.
Plans are in the works to include secondary school teachers in future years.
Chard's Construction Ltd. of Bonavista, was awarded two major contracts to upgrade the Ryan Premises National Historical Site. For the next six months they are going to upgrade it. They date back to a period in the 1700s. The maps and charts exhibition was bolstered by sketches of Cook and his sailing ship, both done by local artist Thomas Ruiz. Ruiz also did three coloured emblems of former base commands at Stephenville.