Small Montana towns reap big benefits from tourism grants
| October 16, 2007 |  View for printing |
Small towns raise money for community projects one bake sale at a time. Monday, the Department of Commerce awarded a semi-sized chocolate chip cookie to five ambitious projects aimed to increase tourism in northcentral Montana.
Nearly $240,000 from Montana's "bed tax" will help the Chippewa-Cree Tribe improve their powwow grounds; pay to move Leonardo, "the mummy dinosaur," to the new Great Plains Dinosaur Museum in Malta; and transform a 1909 drug store building into a museum in Hobson.
By KIM SKORNOGOSKI Tribune Staff Writer
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