Business, Tourism, Culture and Rural Development
June 24, 2015

Media Advisory: Minister to Announce Youth Innovation Projects

The Honourable Darin King, Minister of Business, Tourism, Culture and Rural Development, will announce funding for youth innovation projects at 11:00 a.m. tomorrow (Thursday, June 25) at St. Bernard's Elementary in Witless Bay. Minister King will be joined by the Honourable Keith Hutchings, Minister of Municipal and Intergovernmental Affairs and MHA for Ferryland.

Youth innovation projects help create awareness of the value of innovation in the province's resource and non-resource based industries, with particular focus in the province's advanced technology sectors.

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Media contact:

Tansy Mundon
Director of Communications
Department of Business, Tourism, Culture and Rural Development
709-729-4570, 693-1865
tansymundon@gov.nl.ca

2015 06 24                              4:30 p.m.