Photo courtesy, Jamestown Tourism

Jamestown  (CSi)  Jamestown Tourism has started their “Feed the Buffalo” campaign.

Tourism Office Manager, Emily Bivens tells CSiNewsNow.com that dollars raised will go toward refurbishing World’s Large Buffalo statue, at Frontier Village in Jamestown.

She says the buffalo was repainted two ago, and the new coat of paint was at cost of $8,000, and is expected to last five years.  See repainting story Sept 2016

She says the refurbishing work will begin when the statue is anticipated to need repainting.

The work will include stripping several layers of paint, cleaning, repairing of cracks and a seal coat at the top before repainting.

She adds, that the refurbishing costs will need to be re-estimated, and its possible additional funds may be requested from the Capital Improvement Fund, to meet the costs.

Now located at the World’s Largest Buffalo, to place donations, is a bison silhouette cutout, created by Dan Poland Machine, Inc., of Jamestown  constructed of steel, with an opening at the bison’s mouth where people can place money for a donation. In the future, plans are to have the bison cutout, “speak,” whenever money is put  into the receptacle’s mouth.