2/17/14 - Less than a week of voting remains for an online contest for grant money being sought by a local museum to restore a World War II bomber. The B-25, dubbed Sandbar Mitchell, was recovered from a sandbar near Fairbanks, Alaska last July by a team of volunteers, then shipped to the small Wings of Glory Aviation Museum in Brighton. Right now the project is progressing, with work being done to repair the damage from the plane's 1969 crash landing, but Director Patrick Mihalek has decided to enter the museum in an online contest in hopes of getting money to help with its completion. The contest is being sponsored by FedEx and performed on Facebook, where anyone with an account can vote every day through February 23rd. There will be ten prizes awarded through the contest, including a $25,000 grand prize. Right now, the museum is competing against 1900 other nonprofit and for-profit organizations. On February 23rd the top 100 organizations in the contest will be chosen by FedEx, and then four essay questions will determine the winners of the grant money. Mihalek says he would spend the money on parts and equipment to help with the restoration, which is being undertaken by volunteers and local youth aged 13 to 18. For more information, including a link to the Facebook voting page, follow the link below. (TD)
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