| Lunenburg West MLA Gary Ramey, left, with Lunenburg MLA Pam Birdsall |
The province is spending $750,000 on a design study for the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic. Lunenburg MLA Pam Birdsall made the announcement at the Museum Thursday morning. She says the study will provide options to address future maintenance needs for the Museum. Meanwhile, the mayor of Lunenburg calls the funding announcement for the Museum a “positive” for the town. Laurence Mawhinney says it’s an important step for the building’s future.
“These buildings wear out, they weren’t built to last forever and ever and there’s a lot of use to this building, a lot of weight in this building and it does need to be properly engineered and designed so that it’s going to be stable and stabilized for the next 40 to 50 years.”
Mawhinney says the Museum is a major attraction on the South Shore and applauds the government for their support. The money is coming out of the capital plan for 2012-13, meaning the study won’t begin until sometime after the beginning of the fiscal year next spring.
