Crossfield Lions Club president Al Kenyon unveiled the town’s new bulletin board at the Crossfield Post Office, Oct. 13.
The new bulletin board, which replaces the 30-year-old predecessor, was built with funding from the Lions as well as a handful of businesses, and was built by Strike Energy.
The board is a part of a large train replica, which was designed by local student Hannah Tiel, a contest winner from W.G. Murdoch High School in Crossfield.
“The contest was last school year, I had no idea what to do for it,” Tiel said at the unveiling. “The first thing that popped into my head was trains, because of all the trains you see around here.”
“When I got to write my thoughts down on paper, I realized the symbolism of it. It just made sense. It means a lot to me and it means a lot that a lot of people were behind me, and that the community is here right now.”
Kenyon said that projects like this show how a community can come together to get things done.
“It’s important because when the old one that we had for 30 years was pulled down, we got a lot of inquiries,” said Kenyon. “I hope it shows that as a community we have come together.”
Crossfield Mayor Nathan Anderson was on hand for the unveiling, and said projects like this are pivotal in keeping the morale of a town positive.
“We used to have an old decrepit bulletin board, where you put something up and it gets blown down. This has lock access, it will really clean things up here,” said Anderson. “Communication changes the whole attitude in a community. When people are not in the dark, people are more open to the direction you are heading in. This is something that creates a positive feeling in the community.”
