The deputy mayor of a Norwegian municipality with a sculpture that set off a mighty moose match with a Saskatchewan prairie city is to arrive for a visit later this week.
"It's cool that my debut is in Canada -- the hockey nation," Linda Otnes Henriksen, whose flight is to land in Regina on Thursday night, told The Canadian Press.
After decades of believing a highway attraction named Mac was the biggest moose in the world, Moose Jaw was toppled from top spot when it was revealed Stor-Elvdal had a silvery moose sculpture that was taller by 30 centimetres. Last month, Moosehead Breweries donated $25,000 towards the cause while a GoFundMe campaign has raised about $13,000 of a $50,000 goal.
In a statement posted on the city's website, Tolmie welcomes Henriksen and notes the possibility of building economic or tourism partnerships."We are trying to do our best in order to make tourists come here," she said of Stor-Elvldal, home to about 2,500 people, in east-central Norway.Her municipality is paying her way to Moose Jaw. It's her first trip to Canada.
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