<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-183c8bf8-bc3d-1b9f-83a3-dd7b8f57d250"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;PT Sans&quot;;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="6">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</font></span></p><div style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:&quot;PT Sans&quot;;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-183c8bf8-bc3d-4058-4144-3e6eaf8d3630"><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/LlJ8n208qTxmBiG9ntMczRpCPoA6_qcdGfQeua34xcVBo4wH5KyBttOyZTYsb0vHJAZJVTiIjzGIFLb-C42i6IMcmlrptFM6Zlu-SfHac-wtlQBwNXVm5rFsSMGDysXQFCApHJR0" style="border: none; transform: rotate(0rad); margin-right: 0px;" alt="Logo_whiteblue_2017.jpg" width="207" height="137"></span><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:&quot;PT Sans&quot;;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-96b881be-bc3d-c192-2fe9-61c387d775c3"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:15pt;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">#ScotFreeSaturday !  #getinScotFree !</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:15pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline">Vancouver Police Museum &amp; Archives will be open by donation </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:15pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline">on the last Saturday of every month</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">Vancouver Police Museum &amp; Archives</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">240 East Cordova Street </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">Vancouver B.C., V6A 1L3</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://www.vancouverpolicemuseum.ca" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">www.vancouverpolicemuseum.ca</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">Vancouver, BC September 25, 2017</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent:36pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">The Vancouver Police Museum &amp; Archives will start a monthly Admission by Donation Day on the last Saturday of every month effective September 2017. A donation is not required but will be kindly accepted if visitors are willing and able.  #ScotFreeSaturday will run all day from 9:00am to 5:00pm. This first Saturday also coincides with BC Culture Days and the Vancouver Police Department Lion Dance Team will be performing at 1:00pm with the opportunity to meet the team and lions after. Everyone is welcome!</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent:36pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">It has been a long time goal of the museum to have a “By Donation” day and we are excited to welcome everyone on the last Saturday of every month to #ScotFreeSaturdays at the museum, beginning September 30th, 2017. We hope this monthly event will provide an opportunity for those who are not able to visit the museum to do so and hope it will better our engagement with the community the museum resides in. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">About the museum:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent:36pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">The Vancouver Police Museum &amp; Archives is an independent museum run by the Vancouver Police Historical Society, a registered charity that is neither part of nor funded by either the Vancouver Police Department or the City of Vancouver. The Museum’s foundations began in celebration of the Vancouver Police Department’s centennial anniversary in 1986 and have since expanded beyond the blue lens of local law enforcement to include the history of the Vancouver Coroner’s Services and the historic City Analyst Laboratory that houses the Museum.</span></p><br><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">Contact: </span></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">Naomi Nguyen</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="mailto:director@vancouverpolicemuseum.ca" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">marketing@vancouverpolicemuseum.ca</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">604-665-3346</span></p><div><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></div></span></span></div></span></div>