Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Exhibition company looking for city funding

Lori Johnson, Burrowing Owl co-ordinator at the
Burrowing Owl Centre, holds ambassador owl
Potter while speaking on the proposed upgrades to
 the centre at the Jan. 27, 2014 budget committee
meeting. Potter will be four years old in July.
Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

By Lisa Goudy


The Moose Jaw Exhibition Company was created in 1884.

One-hundred-and-thirty years later, for the first time, the company is asking for a direct funding relationship with the City of Moose Jaw.

"Although you may drive down Thatcher Drive and not see much going on, on the north end of the property where the horse facilities are, there’s a lot of weekends where there’s a lot of trailers there and a lot of activity going on and a lot of economic spinoff for the city,” said George Fowler, general manager of the Moose Jaw Exhibition Company.


At Monday’s budget committee meeting, Fowler, along with Lori Johnson, Burrowing Owl co-ordinator and ambassador owl Potter, made a presentation and request for the city to provide $111,000 to capital projects and the company providing $226,000.

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