[Bcma-l] Summer Students - Oliver and District Museum

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The S.S. Sicamous Restoration Society did not receive any funding and 
was told that we did not have a high enough rating to receive a funding 
grant.  Basically it is the area in which we live, low unemployment, low 
crime area and all that garbage.  The biggest was that the jobs were not 
good enough to be deemed as high education.  Well, the cultural heritage 
tourism market is the fastest growing market in North America.  We have 
3 ships, within a growing inland marine park, one of the only ones in 
Canada, we have an accessioning program starting up, we have tour 
guides, gift shop management and we have a successful professional 
theater with 40 shows per summer.  If one ponders for a moment to see 
the diversity of jobs we have available and the intrinsic value of 
meeting people from all over the world, they have got to be kidding that 
we are not worthy of funding!  Our restoration society and the inland 
marine park is run by 1 full time overworked manager, and 1 part time 
custodian.  We have a carpenter on call if we get grants for 
restoration.  We have only received one student for CMA, 1 full time 
position with Weyerhauser.  Not sure what they are thinking.  I have 
written to our past neighbor Stockwell Day, Bill Barisoff, the mayor and 
Service Canada for an appeal.

Everyones thoughts.

Alexa La Madrid, General Manager
S.S. Sicamous Restoration Society
bcma-l-admin@museumsassn.bc.ca
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> Subject:     Summer Students
> Date:     Mon, 14 May 2007 11:41:59 -0700
> From:     Oliver and District Museum <museumdirector@cablerocket.com>
> To:     <bcma-l-admin@museumsassn.bc.ca>
>
>
>
> We also did not receive funding this year. We were put onto the B 
> –list for funding, and when I spoke with Service Canada in Kelowna, we 
> did not receive sufficient points according to the funding formulae 
> listed in the applicant guide. Each region made its own decisions for 
> funding, and I was told there was no negotiation for length of funding 
> in this area. That is, if we asked for 16 weeks, there was no 
> negotiation to be funded for 14 or 12 weeks, you either got funding, 
> or you didn’t.
>
> I pointed out that it seems unusual that some museums/heritage 
> organizations received funding for up to 6 students, while we did not 
> receive the one we requested. My understanding from the conversation I 
> had was that most of the money in this area this year went to 
> environmental programs.
>
> Now how an environmental program got money from YCW in Heritage 
> Organizations, I don’t know.
>
> Darryl MacKenzie BSc(CD), MA
>
> Museum Director/ ODHS Administrator
>
> Oliver and District Heritage Society
>
> Box 847,
>
> Oliver, BC
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> V0H1T0
>
> 250-498-0490
>
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