You only have to sketch them. Not spell them.

Today, Jan. 30, is known as National Draw A Dinosaur Day, so get out your favourite art utensil, be it pencil, crayon, felt pen, or paint, and literally head to a drawing board.

Make a tyrannosaurus rex, complete with its short arms; don't forget the pair of horns on the triceratops; add the feathers to the feathered velociraptor; or try your hand at the stegosaurus and its spiky neck, back, and tail.

Dinosaurs were big in Vernon in 1996.

The Vernon Museum (now the Museum and Archives of Vernon) put on lengthy Dinosaur Days program, with displays featuring dinosaur skeletons set up at the Vernon Recreation Centre. Today's picture from the MAV shows part of the display from Week 2 in 1996.

The Vernon Science Centre (now Okanagan Science Centre) built a Dinosaur Dig at the centre that year, complete with an authentic replica of an excavation site in which children can dig through the sand to find and identify dinosaur 'bones.'

The bones were then put together to form a skeleton of a triceratops.

"Children who have used the centre are giving the new activity rave reviews," said the project coordinator, kindergarten teacher Carol Corsi, in an interview with The Morning Star 29 years ago.