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| Mat Maid News & Press Proceeds from Holiday Promotion Sales Bolster Palmer Colony House Project ANCHORAGE, ALASKA – October 4, 2006 - The Matanuska Maid brand, and the company name itself, stem directly from the US government’s efforts to relieve poverty during the Great Depression by sponsoring settlement of distressed farm families to the Matanuska Valley from the upper Midwest. That shared heritage, between the Matanuska Colony farmers and Matanuska Maid, has fostered a close link in recent years between the dairy company and the Palmer Historical Society. image In recognizing those common roots, and to support the Palmer Historical
Society’s efforts to popularize those times among newer Alaskans,
Matanuska Maid has recently presented a grant to the Society in
support of the Colony House project. “It’s really a
pleasure to see this funding go to an organization whose purpose
is to refresh, and animate a history of great significance to Alaska,
said Joe Van Treeck, President and CEO of Matanuska Maid. The Colony House in Palmer is one of the original dwellings built
to house colonists, and is now a local landmark, museum and headquarters
for the Historical Society. Van Treeck said the $3700 award has
been offered to the Historical Society to further its organizational
goals. Bolstering the collection of artifacts and interpretive
exhibits are among the Society‚s objectives. The organization
has also been a major backer of a documentary film: Far, Far
and Away, that chronicles the Colony and subsequent formation
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