Important visitor to FNJE
by Doug Roy on 05/31/10
Some of the Canso Crew had an opportunity to meet with the Honourable Lloyd Snelgrove, President of Treasury Board, for the Province of Alberta, on May 17, 2010. The appointment was scheduled with Minister Snelgrove as part of a four Minister Tour to Fairview so Don Wieben and Henry Dechant met with him, talked about our project and showed him a few of our pictures. Henry told me later that "Mr. Snelgrove immediately became excited about what he was seeing and after a few minutes asked where this project was being worked on. We told him it was about 5 minutes out of town and he then asked if he could see it. We, of course, agreed to take him out so we gave him about a 15 minute tour which seemed to impress him even more. He indicated that he had grown up in an aviation connected family and his father had worked on or built a home built aircraft. He indicated that he would - see what he could do - when we advised him that we our grant application had been turned down."
We were very encouraged by his visit and hope to have a follow-up soon.
