From restaurants to safety consulting, the Drumheller Dino Den heard the applicants and made its decision.
In the end, Dinosaur Valley Express won the Dino Den grand prize.
Dinosaur Valley Express is a unique bus service to be introduced this year by Shelley Rymal and Karel Stojan of Sage Valley Marketing. This will be a hop-on, hop-off guided bus service that will run during the summer season to major attractions throughout the valley. They will be using a unique cable car bus.
This was just one of a variety of ideas presented to the Dino Den adjudicators. In all, there were seven applications made and five made presentations last Wednesday night.
“I like that all of these are starting with or without our help,” said adjudicator Stacey Stewart.
The grand prize includes $1,000 from the town of Drumheller as well as a business license for a year, $1,000 each also from Community Futures and the Drumheller and District Chamber of Commerce, There is also an enhanced banking package from Chinook Credit Union and an advertising package from Drum FM.
Vicki Myers, who presented to expand the Melting Pot Art studio, felt it was a valuable exercise.
“It was a cool idea, really out of the box,” she said.
