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Story - Saba Government Information Services
The Bottom, Saba: June 3, 2005
The Harry L. Johnson Memorial Museum
situated in eh Windwardside has elected a new board of directors. The newly
appointed chairman Mr. Glen Holm spoke to the SGIS on Thursday afternoon and
made the public announcement.
Mr. Holm said that the newly appointed board of directors for the museum are
as follows: Chairman Mr. Glen Holm, Secretary Ms. Carolyn Johnson, Treasurer
Mr. Franklin Johnson other board members are Mr. Gary Johnson, Mrs. Darlene
Peterson-Johnson, Mr. Gied Mommers, Mrs. Maria Caines-Lynch, Mr. Steve
Hassell and Mr. guy Johnson.
Chairman Glenn Holm informed us that the new board in its first meeting
nominated him to represent the island of Saba and the museum on the board of
the NAAM. We recently also completed the Gazebo and the pond at the grounds
of the museum and we are now busy looking into the expansion of the museum.
We are looking at a very big project which will include the building of a
two story building especially for us to be able to store the many artifacts
that we presently have in Holland. On the first floor we will be housing the
artifacts for temperature control and on the second floor we are looking
into building one or two apartments for when we have guest visiting the
museum on special assignments. We are also busy looking into having an etno
botanical garden built. We will be also having the entire property properly
fenced in to keep out the animals.
We will be also looking into the possibility of wind energy in order to help
keep the high cost of electricity down especially seeing that we will be
housing all of our own artifacts on the island.
Mr. Holm also announced that they would also like to thank long time board
member Mr. Walter Campbell for all of his dedicated services to the museum
over the many years.
Mr. Holm has made a public appeal to the community that the grounds of the
museum can be used for all sort of activities such as weddings etc. but he
must request all users of the area to please take up contact with the
members of the board and he stressed that he would like all users to make
sure and help keep the entire grounds in a clean manner. We cannot allow
people to just make use of the grounds and have them mess it up without any
sort of responsibility.
Mr. Holm went on to state that we are working diligently to help bring about
the many changes to the museum and we would like to count on the support and
cooperation of the Saban community.
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