Brandon Sun By: Tyler Clarke
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Tallying up the final numbers for 2020, Brandon Area Community Foundation executive director Laura Kempthorne said the end result was shocking.
The foundation granted a record-breaking $1,052,065 last year, marking the first time in their 55-year history they’ve broken $1 million. It wasn’t something we planned out to do, at all, Kempthorne said quite the contrary.
When the pandemic hit early last year, uncertainty clouded whatever plans they might have otherwise had for the year.
Looking back, she said the COVID-19 pandemic and the hardships it brought many people might have actually contributed to the foundation’s success.
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Full Flannel Jacket plays the Festival Park stage in 2019. The Riverbank Discovery Centre’s Festival Park stage will now be known as Fusion Credit Union Stage, ending the search for a sponsor at the riverside outdoor entertainment venue. (File)
The Riverbank Discovery Centre’s main stage has a new name after a deal was announced on Monday.
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The Riverbank Discovery Centre’s main stage has a new name after a deal was announced on Monday.
The Festival Park stage will now be known as Fusion Credit Union Stage, ending the search for a sponsor at the riverside outdoor entertainment venue.
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One of the favorite animal attractions at the Riverside Discovery Center has passed away.
Officials say Apollo, a 20-year old male lion, has died from cancer and age-related kidney disease.
Apollo was born in 2000 at the Erie Zoo in Erie, Pennsylvania. Apollo and his brother Zeus came to Riverside in 2001 and were very popular with guests and staff. Zeus passed away in 2015 from heart complications.
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“The staff are deeply saddened by the loss of Apollo. He had an outsized personality that made him a favorite of many. He was an incredible gift while we had him and will be missed.” Anthony Mason, Executive Director of Riverside Discovery Center. In the near term, the RDC will move Nika, a female Amur tiger,into the exhibit, and Ussuri, a male Amur tiger, will remain in the current tiger exhibit. In the long term, the RDC will bring in new lions as availability allows and based on recommendations from the AZA species survival plan.