Thompson Local News

Productive summer at the Boreal Discovery Centre as summer programming wraps up, and construction continues

It’s been a year since the Thompson Zoo announced they would be transforming into the Boreal Discovery Centre.

 

Chairperson Keith MacDonald says the Wolf Enclosure is 98% complete and this week, Zoo Design Inc is visiting to finalize the rest of the plans:

 

"They’re doing our conceptual drawings and our working drawings for the plan for the rest of the exhibits. They’re coming back and were going to start finalizing other attributes like the caribou, the lynx, our eagles and owls exhibit, and our aquarium that we plan on building. So we’re getting more to the point now where we can actually design drawings so we can get local contractors involved". 

 

Last Friday also marked the last day of summer programming for the centre. MacDonald says they saw about 25% more participation this year, compared to last year.

  

For the rest of the year, MacDonald says they will be focusing on fundraising for the $4 million project.

 

The centre is expected to be complete in 2018.

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