Who will be the new faces of Team Orange?

We recently attended the Summer Student Career Fair in Halifax and were thrilled at the response we experienced from summer students excited about the prospects of employment at the Joggins Fossil Cliffs over the summer.

We apply for both provincial and federal funding schemes, which enable not for profit organisations such as ours to enance our summer compliment of staff with some fantastic students.

The scheme offers an excellent opportunity for students to gain experience in their chosen field and for employers to get the most enthusiastic candidates on staff.

We are very impressed with the calibre of students who have applied this year and so begins the long process of shortlisting and selection. You can be sure that who ever we select, will have a great summer. Who wouldn't want to spend their time walking on the beach, meeting some very interesting people and spending time in such a supportive and progressive environment?

Why Team Orange? Well, our team are getting recognised everywhere for their orange shirts and everyone is proud to wear them. Orange is a great colour to heighten visibility of staff on the beach and within the centre.

Good luck to everyone who applied. There is an orange shirt awaiting the chosen few...

CNTA Attraction of the Year

On Friday evening, the Joggins Fossil Cliffs were presented with another award from the provincial tourism industry.

The CNTA (Central Nova Tourism Association) bestowed upon us the Attraction of the Year Award.

The awards, which followed the CNTA's Annual Conference, were an intimate affair, thanks to yet another winter snow storm, which kept some attendants away. The conference had some fantastic speakers on the itinerary and we were reminded of the value of Social Media, such as our blog, in inspiring discussion and dialogue, in engaging you the public and in receiving feedback and suggestions.

We are incredibly proud to win this award and thank both the CNTA and the people who nominated us.

It is a strange category for us. Indeed we are an attraction, but we are so much more than that too. We are educators, conservators, interpretors, international ambassadors and heritage managers. The site would exist even if we weren't there in our fantastic visitor centre, but would visitors understand it? Would its significance be appreciated? Probably not, which underlines the value in promoting the site as an attraction.

Thanks CNTA, we appreciate your support.