A new interactive exhibit at the Aquatarium in Brockville, Ont. is highlighting the Port of Johnstown, and it is designed to teach children about the importance of agriculture in the region.
The Port of Johnstown Interactive Exhibit uses plastic balls to show the process of farm to table, including things like harvesting, trucking, drying, storage, and loading ships that use the St. Lawrence Seaway to get commodities to their final destination.
The former council of Edwardsburg-Cardinal invested $180,000 to the exhibit over the next three years. "We actually met with mayor at the time, Pat Sayeau, and he did a presentation at our Seaway 60th Anniversary," Harder said."It was fascinating. We talked about it as a team and more and more we did get involved in how all the physics and the engineering and the stem learning that actually goes on within the port, all of these things work together with what goes on regionally and we just said we need to do an exhibit about this.
"We're also working together to promote jobs in these industries, because let's face it - farming, there's not enough people doing it, not enough marine workers to move these boats, and not enough people at the port," Harder said.
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