NOTE TO EDITORS:

Premier Roger Grimes and Kevin Aylward, Minister of Tourism, Culture and Recreation, invite members of the media to the opening reception celebrating the Bay Roberts Cable Building as a Receiving the World Communications Site. As part of the Receiving the World Celebrations, the Cable Building Museum has enhanced its communications, exhibits and interpretation programs. The opening reception will take place at 2:30 p.m., Friday, June 15, at the Bay Roberts Cable Building, Water Street, Bay Roberts.

The Bay Roberts Cable Building is the first of nine sites to open that are involved in the Receiving the World Exhibit and Interpretation Program. The cable building was constructed in 1913 and was connected by transatlantic cable to Sennen Cove, 10 miles from Penzance, England. The arrival of the cable company affected Bay Roberts both socially and economically. The Bay Roberts cable business was a prime example of how technology and geography put Newfoundland and Labrador at centre stage in the transmission of information between the Old World and the New.

Media contact: Mary MacNab, Communications, Receiving the World, (709) 729-3813.

2001 06 13                                                 12:20 p.m.