Staff Writer
If you’re traveling down Glenn Street, dropping your kids off at the pool, you should notice something new directly across from the road, just before the bus garage. The sign for the future Caribou Children’s Discovery Museum has arrived and is in place.
Aroostook Republican photo/Barb Scott
Board members of the Caribou Children’s’ Discovery Museum were all smiles standing in front of the newly placed sign at the site of the future hands-on discovery museum. From left are: Bob White, Nancy Chandler, Kim Parent, with daughter Kallee and Dr. Reginald Reed. In front is Christopher Parent.
The sign was designed by Leslie Jackson of Caribou and fabricated by a Bangor company.
Lee Bard of the S.W. Collins Company designed and built the sign frame, with the Collins Company donating all the materials for the frame and signposts.
Others involved in the actual placement of the sign at the museum site were Paul Barnes, John Weeks, Todd Albert and Troy Barnes. R.L. Todd employees dug the necessary holes for the sign.
Nancy Chandler, of the Children’s Discovery Museum, reminds community members that anyone is welcome to decorate anything with wheels and join the Caribou Children’s Discovery Museum volunteers participating in the Caribou Cares About Kids parade, Friday, Aug.8
Chandler said prizes will be given to the top three best decorated units. Lineup for the parade is at 5:30 p.m. in the Save-A-Lot parking lot.
The Caribou Children’s Discovery Museum volunteers will also be at Teague Park along with Cary Medical Center Volunteers from noon until 4 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 9 offering fun activities.
The next fund-raiser is a Family Fun Day to be held at the Caribou Wellness and Recreation Center from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 23. During this event there will be lots of activities including; games, a Tot Spot, a reading area as well as the Caribou Fire and Police Departments; the Caribou Weather Bureau, Little Daniel’s Den (Kindermusik) from Fort Kent, Cary Medical Center, County Physical Therapy and more. The cost for this event is $4 per person or $12 for a family of four.
Chandler also reminded museum supporters of the tickets for the 1946 1/16 scale potato truck are still available. The drawing is scheduled to be held October 10, during the Potato Picker’s Special program on WAGM-TV.
For more information contact Chandler at 764-9241.
