Tuesday, April 27, 2010

"Give 'Em the Pickle!"

Join the team at the Joggins Fossil Centre for an exclusive Customer Care training event called



"Give ‘Em the Pickle!”
Presented by Anna-Marie Weir, TCP, TCS
Hospitality & Tourism Training Consultant


6th May 2010 9:00am to 1:00pm

Customers today expect excellent service.

How do you offer great customer service, that goes beyond expectations?

This event will help you and your staff identify the little extras that can make a guest’s visit more special, create memories and encourage them to return time and time again.


The cost is only $50.00 per person, including morning refreshments


Places are limited, so please book soon to avoid disappointment.


Please call 902-251-2727 to speak with Jordan and reserve your places.

Monday, April 26, 2010

Mother's Day Event Details


We are planning a great event to celebrate mothers everywhere.


Join the Joggins Fossil Institute in celebrating this special day, including-

DIRECTOR’S BRUNCH
sittings at 10:00am and 11:00am

Eggs Benedict & Fresh Fruit Medley
Just Us! freshly ground Rise Again Coffee or Tea
Orange Juice


EXHIBITION OF HOOKED RUGS
Featuring tales from Acadian folklore
by les hookeuses du bor’delo


SPRINGTIME GUIDED WALK
A gentle walk along the Joggins Fossil Cliffs UNESCO World Heritage Site


20% DISCOUNT IN THE GIFT SHOP

$15.00 per person and only $7.50 for mothers!


Please call 902-251-2727 to book your table



Thursday, April 22, 2010

Happy Earth Day everyone!

The children from River Hebert Elementary School P-3 have been having a great time planting their special pumpkin seeds in their recycled plastic pop bottle greenhouses and we are looking forward to showing grades 4-6 how compost is made, how to care for their pumpkin seeds and our new exhibitions later on this afternoon.

We are open until 4:30pm today and re-open at 6:30 for the evening, so don't forget to come down for our guest speaker, Rowena Hopkins, author of Canadian food roots weblog and expert in the areas of organic and sustainable farming. Rowena is a collaborator with the Rural Women Making Change research alliance, working towards creating a sustainable and healthy agricultural experience in Canada. Rowena's presentation will take place at 7:00pm.

We will be serving free coffee, tea and Joyce's delicious double chocolate home-baked cookies!

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

The Joggins Fossil Centre has won an International Environmental Award!


The Joggins Fossil Institute (JFI), the registered charity which manages the Joggins Fossil Cliffs UNESCO World Heritage Site, is pleased to announce that the Joggins Fossil Centre has won an International Green Apple Built Environment Award.


These prestigious awards are presented by the Green Organisation, a UK-based non-profit organisation, in partnership with the British Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, The Environment Agency, The Chartered Institute of Wastes Management and the Municipal Journal.


The Joggins Fossil Centre, designed by WhW Architects of Halifax, and the winner of the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Architecture in 2007 has now been selected to receive this prestigious international prize as a result of the hard work, which was undertaken to minimise the impacts of the new centre on the environment. Melanie Cookson-Carter, Operations Coordinator, will be collecting the award at the ceremony, due to be held on 14th June at the Tower on London, England. The ceremony will be shown on Green TV and the JFI will find out on the evening if they have won Gold, Silver or Bronze.


Melanie says of the award, “We are really pleased to have been selected to receive an award by the Green Organisation. The nomination process was fairly robust and we had to provide in-depth information on the project and centre development including; impacts on the environment, social and financial benefit, visual impact and construction waste minimisation, amongst others.”

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Sneak Peek at our new display...

Guess where this new display can be found?

Here's a clue - It's not on the ground!



You will have to wait until Earth Day, 22nd April, when we open for the season to find out.

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Wow, we seriously recommend this link

We just love this amazing video entitled Elyxium by Paul Baraka and thank the team who filmed this spectacular showcase of the Joggins Fossil Cliffs UNESCO World Heritage Site and accompanied it with such a haunting score by Baraka.

We would love to link this video to our website and are looking into this to give it the recognition it deserves.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8uabuJBho0

Friday, April 9, 2010

Earth Day Program

Earth Day 2010 Program

at the Joggins Fossil Cliffs UNESCO World Heritage Site

The centre will be open all day 9:30am to 4:30pm

Free Admission and Refreshments

New Biodiversity Exhibition“Have you thanked a plant today?”

Children - Bring along a plastic pop bottle to make your own recycled pop bottle greenhouse and plant a pumpkin for our pumpkin growing competition
See the first plans for our Natural Playground ___________________________________________________

Community Evening 6:30pm to 8:30pm

Free Admission and Refreshments

Guest speaker 7:00pm
Rowena Hopkins
Author of Canadian Food Roots weblog and expert in the areas of organic and sustainable agriculture, Rowena is a collaborator with the Rural Women Making Change research alliance, working towards creating a sustainable and healthy agricultural experience in Canada.

Her story is truly inspirational.

Come along to get your Keeper of the Cliffs season pass authorised for 2010