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Museum bids farewell to its Delta St. site Supporters gather as doors closed at century-old Ladner Village building SANDOR GYARMATI
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Taylor Dianne Robinson was crowned Delta Idol 2016 at the live finale last Friday night at the Tsawwassen Arts Centre. The Grade 7 student at Tsawwassen’s English Bluff Elementary bested 11 other finalists in the Corporation of Delta’s third annual contest. See story and more photos on Page 11 and at www.delta-optimist.com.
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It was a chance to say goodbye after close to five decades in Ladner Village. Current and former Delta Museum staff and volunteers, as well as other well-wishers, gathered at the Delta Street museum last Friday afternoon for a final send-off as the facility has now closed its doors to the public. Home to the museum since 1969, the historic former municipal hall building is to be completely vacated this summer in order for major renovations to begin to repurpose it for new community uses. Nothing has been announced as far as where the museum will relocate but the Delta Museum and Archives Society is working with the Corporation of Delta on a new location. While there now won’t be a museum in Delta for at least a year, that doesn’t mean the society is ceasing operations as some programming will still take place, including the 2016 Delta Heritage Fair this April. As far as a new home, the first order of business for museum staff will be to relocate all artifacts to a temporary storage facility until a new site is identi-
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Delta Museum and Archives Society board chair Barb Baydala says a big adventure is ahead as a new location is needed.
fied and retrofitted. “We have a big challenge and a big adventure ahead of us,” society board chair Barb Baydala told the crowd at Friday’s reception. Baydala had told the civic heritage commission a new museum would ideally be in a central location and would resemble a more up-to-date facility, having the ability to accept larger objects. A few years ago the museum moved some of its operations to an annex further north on Delta Street. That move was seen as an interim step as the long-term goal was a new building. RENOVATE: see Page 3
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