TISDALE — The ground-breaking ceremony kicked off with a golden coloured shovel being stuck where a new workshop will be located at the Tisdale Museum.
The building will be a 30- to 32-foot replica of a Co-op gas station with authentic early 1900s gas bowsers that you would use to pump gas by hand into a glass bowl. It will serve the museum as a year-round building to work on restoring pieces for display. It will include heat and plumbing.
Federated Co-ops gave the museum $60,000 for this project in June. The local Beeland Co-op was there to present a large replica cheque at the ground-breaking ceremony July 10.
“We have been waiting for the cheque to arrive from Federated, and the grounding ceremony, and then we think we are ready to start construction on the project at that point,” said Cal Farough, president of the Tisdale Museum. “It is going to add to our village as one of the unique buildings on display, and it will give us an opportunity for volunteers to work year-round restoring and repairing items which we already have on the property.”
Farough hopes this will lead into educational opportunities at the museum.
“[The] long-term plan is that we will have an education component for people who are wanting to learn different skills. Maybe we can have some teaching lessons, just as an example, right now where would you go to find someone who could teach you how to make a wooden wheel?” Farough asked. “I’m not going to say we’ll do that, but hopefully there will be educational opportunities like that here at the museum.”
