I'd like to briefly welcome any readers to this blog. My name is Alain Borgeaud and I'm a co-op student working at the Parksville Museum and Archives over the summer of 2014. This is going to be an exciting summer for us as we are upgrading much of the museum and attempting to encourage more community activities. At the moment we are in the process of setting up the property to facilitate the start of a weekly farmers market at the museum. We are hopeful that this farmers market will be up and running before the end of summer and will be keeping the community updated as often as is possible...so fingers crossed everything can work out great and we can enjoy some beautiful fresh produce in the sun. We were also pleased to announce that Panther Valley Day will be returning for another year and will be including many family favorites including live music, pony rides, prizes and much more. For any additional information about these events please feel free to look us at parksvillemuseum.ca/ or follow on twitter at ParksvillePast for instant updates on any events. 

In addition to keeping you up to date on the progress of the numerous projects around the museum this summer I will be giving you a bit of insight into what happens behind the doors labeled "Staff Only."  You see museum workers tend to be a fairly nefarious lot, we keep an incredible amount of artifacts and projects hidden from the eyes of the public. This secrecy isn't necessarily planned but rather due to the fact that we often don't have enough items to make a proper exhibit or the space for a new exhibit. One of the main goals of this blog will be to give the public, you our readers who are truly wonderful for putting up with my ramblings, an idea of the types of projects we undertake here and a look at some of the artifacts that might not make it out onto the museum floor. In addition I will be throwing some tentative ideas around for future exhibits so if there is anything that you really like and feel should be put on exhibition please let us know, we appreciate any feed back we can get from the community.