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It was big news when the Provincial Government announced it would be funding a nearly $40 million expansion of the Reynolds-Alberta Museum’s storage facility last year.

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It’s big news this week for the Wetaskiwin Regional Chamber of Commerce and the Alberta government to say it will be built by as many local hands as possible.

At the time the first announcement was made, it attracted the attention of a lot of provincial MLAs who decided to make the trip out to Wetaskiwin to see what all the fuss was about and they were impressed with the museum, its facilities and artefacts. Decades of history under those roofs.

What attracted the attention of the Wetaskiwin Regional Chamber of Commerce and local sub-trade contractors was exactly WHO? was going to be benefitting from this project.

While the design came from a large company out of town, there is no question there are a lot of people in the area who are more than capable, talented and skilled enough to get into the nitty-gritty of the design and make it work.

So, after a year of lobbying and working with the Provincial Government, it was great to hear from the Chamber of Commerce and confirmed by our local MLA that the RAM project was going to be part of a pilot project to get as many smaller companies and individuals from here working on this.

I remember covering this story when the news first came out and going on several of the tours and each time remembering the story of how RAM was originally built by the people of Wetaskiwin and the story of Stan Reynolds’s and the gold coins he paid to workers that were circulating through the community for years afterward — showing just how far a dollar could actually go in a small centre and how many hands it would go through.

To help make this possible, an information session and hiring fair will be held in the next few weeks or so so everyone has all the information they need to put in a bid or get a job on the project.

For those of you in the trades who think you’re too small — go and check out the information session once the details are announced — you may be exactly what they’re looking for and that’s good news for all of us who live and work in the area.

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