(Angie Rolheiser/northeastNOW staff)

By Angie Rolheiser

Summer activities

Melfort Museum to resume time warp program for kids

May 25, 2021 | 3:00 PM

The time warp program for kids will return this summer at the Melfort and District Museum.

Annually, the program includes activities geared toward the pioneer life, history and culture of Melfort. The popular program in the city had to be cancelled last summer due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Curator Gail Marie Anderson told northeastNOW things will still look a little different, but she is excited it can be offered once again.

“Kids will have to bring their own snacks and drinks because we can’t provide them and our numbers will be limited but the good news is we are going ahead,” Anderson said.

Registration is open for children ages six to 10 and is limited to 10 children per Tuesday and Thursday from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. The program will run throughout July and August.

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“We have had great success with the program,” Anderson said. “The kids love it and a lot of them return so it does fill up quickly.”

Admission is free but registration is required to participate. Call the Museum at 306-752-5870.

“Restrictions are changing and we are going to different stages so for right now we are taking only 10 and then we will build a waiting list,” Anderson said. “We do think the number will increase but depending on when we start and what restrictions are at the time.”

Anderson said there are typically themed days such as pioneer day, farm day, archaeological day, and Indigenous people’s day.

“We are planning for most of the activities outdoors or sometimes we do crafts either on the stage because it is covered or in the school,“ Anderson said. “We almost always have a school day where we get a volunteer to come in and she does an old-time teaching day.”

The museum is also continuing to raise funds to replace planks on the boardwalk in their pioneer village.

Phase one of the campaign in 2007 brought in almost $7,000 where a donor sign was created which they called,‘thanks for the planks.’ The donor sign remains in the entrance of the museum.

The campaign is now into phase two where $10 donations help with replacing planks, and the donors name is added to the donor sign.

The money brought in will help to replace existing boardwalk planks as well as making an addition to the boardwalk in front of the newer buildings in the village.

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