Oliver Museum staff feeling the love

New projects are underway at the Oliver & District Heritage Society thanks to a $17,000 grant from the federal government’s COVID-19 Emergency Assistance Fund for museums and heritage organizations.

The funding will help make up shortfalls in 2020 revenue as well as giving ODHS the ability to complete projects above and beyond its regular budget.

Specifically, it will allow the society to employ local contractors for maintenance work, extend a student contract to continue artifact cataloguing, and replace a number of peeling text panels in the Fairview Jail.

“This is all much-needed funding,” executive director Julianna Weisgarber said. “Like other organizations, the pandemic has impacted the kind of work our staff and volunteers normally do on behalf of the community’s history.”