Labels:text | newspaper | screenshot OCR: Our Birthday Dig 10:06PM Saturday, the 25th of September, 1993. The chill night air near Beiseker is broken as the Pacific Western bus rumbles past on Highway 9 carrying its weary cargo back to Calgary. Inside, Donald and Ruth Axford chat with Dennis Lister, their host from the Cooperating Society about the events of the Royal Tyrrell Museum's first Birthday Dig, Volume 1 Number 1 November 1993 Elsewhere, young Brittany Lyons struggles to hang on for the dying moments of "Planet of the Dinosaurs", the scintillating en route movie Most everyone else has succumbed to fatigue, while the day's memories carry them back ... back ... ... Seems like only a few moments ago that we were all boarding the bus at Sunridge Mall as dawn was breaking above. While most of sane Calgary is still luxuriating in bed, a small group of would-be fossil hunters gather for a unique (albeit eccentric) trip back in time. trackWays Roval Tyrrell Museum Cooperating Society After a kick-start of coffee, juice and donuts, Phil Currie, one of Canada's premier dinosaur palaeontologists, gets the programme From the Chair rolling on the bus with a presentation about what the day ahead will bring: 70 million year old teeth and other fossil remains serve to bring Phil's subject to Welcome to the first edition of Trackways, the life; don't sit on cactus and, no, you can't keep fossils because its against the publication of the Royal Tyrrell Museum law. Cooperating Society (the Society). Hereafter, ... 0830 ... at last ... breakfast ... we're starved! While everyone tucks into Trackways will be published quarterly in pancakes and "bangers", David Richardson, of Don Forster Men's Wear, fits the January, April, and July, Our newsletter group for their Tilley hats. Wow! All set? Right! Dennis Braman and Bruce Naylor represents a great deal of effort by many head off for backstage tours with our intrepid palaeontdlogists in tow. Large people to provide you with the best service Prep; Small Prep; Unprepared Collections: Prepared Collections. Haven't seen and product possible. We will experience this much prep'ing since my hernia operation. Dennis, please, how about growing pains; please bear with us and let us some English, already! know if there is something we could be doing better. I would like to use this opportunity to provide David and you with a little background on how the Brittany Lyons Society came into being. On the 25th of put the September, 1985, the Tyrrell Museum of finishing Palaeontology opened its doors to nearly touches on 600,000 annual visitors, well beyond the a"jacketed" expectations of its planners. As a Provincial specimen with museum, it is supported by its own revenue, Dr. Betsy Nicholls. generated principally by gate receipts, and by public funds. In an effort to enhance many of the fine programmes offered by the Museum, and develop new programmes and exhibits, the Society was founded earlier this year as a non-profit society with charitable status, We were also busy putting together the new Gallery Guide and Gallery Tour video, which made their debuts in July, The Museum has many projects on the planning table and your Society intends that each one become
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