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A huge success -- The Old Glory
Alpine: Celebrate the Legacy, January 29, 2006 at the Firehall
Gallery in Rossland
Several hundred people came to the
Firehall Gallery to see over 200 community photographs, Rossland Museum
photograph reproductions and the 1954 National Film Board of Canada film
about the Old Glory Weather Station.
Wilf Gibbard travelled from
Christina Lake -- he's 92 years old and took supplies to the weather
station in the 40's and 50's using a string of pack horses. People
of all ages came to see and enjoy the event.
Thank
you to everyone who participated and especially to generous donors and
good and services:
Louise
Drescher, Rossland Council for the Arts and Culture, The Firehall
Art Gallery
Steve
Harder, Interior Signs of Trail
Mel
Black, Northern Light Graphics
Joyce
Austin, Rossland Museum
All
the photographers who loaned treasured photographs
Our
friends who "pitched in" when it was really needed
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For
news coverage of the event, see:
Trail
Daily Times article, February 7, 2006
Rossland
Record article, January 26, 2006
Trail
Daily Times "Grapevine", January 27, 2006
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Director
Kim Deane, Wilf Gibbard and Director Richie Mann
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Director Ken Holmes and Al
("Bebe") Fisher |
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Crowds
watched the 6 minute 1954 video produced by the National Film
Board of Canada, "Professional Hermits Operate Canada's
Highest Weather Station"
Richie Mann's 1990 video of
the builders of Red Mountain Renuion Ski on Grey Mountain was also
presented.
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Former
Director Bridget O'Malley and Member Suzanne Paquin sold lottery
tickets and memberships alongside 1 of the 4 large reproductions
of historical photographs from the Rossland Museum:
"The
Old Glory Weather Station"
"Downtown
Rossland in Winter "
"Snowshoers
on Tour"
"Mt
Roberts Flagstaff"
Silent
auction proceeds from these 4 photographs benefited the Rossland
Museum and Friends of the Rossland Range
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Audrey and
Richie Mann with Louise Drescher, Rossland Council of the Arts and
Culture and founder of the Firehall Gallery |
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Councillor
Jill Spearn discusses the map of the proposed Old Glory Alpine
with Director Ken Holmes |
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A
visitor enjoys 1 of the 2 newer large photographs donated for
silent auction:
"Old Glory and the Headwall"
"Hiker's
View of Old Glory from the Seven Summits Trail"
Proceeds
from these 2 large photographs benefitted the Friends of the
Rossland Range |
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