MAYFAIR — Does anyone have beautiful tulips and daffodils popping up yet? One lady has a strip of grass between the sidewalk and street and voilà, tulips are growing already. Quite a conversation piece on her city block.
Condolences to the Miller family in Rabbit Lake on the passing of 94-year-old Ewald Miller. He passed away in Battlefords Union Hospital April 5 and his funeral was held in that village April 15. He is survived by wife Marian and their sons Jerry and Mark and families.
Some Mayfair residents attended the excellent comedy play in Cochin put on by their local community players’ organization. It was a great outing but not all the tickets got sold. They have wonderful plays with great actors and actresses. This coming November there will be more live theatre in the Cochin Community Hall.
Meeting Lake Regional Park will be having farmers markets again this spring and summer. The vendors have set the dates: May 18, June 1 and 15, July 1 and 13, Aug. 3 and 31. There is always a large variety of goods offered
Glaslyn Public Library is hosting a Kaiser Night April 26 in the early evening in the community hall. There will be refreshments, cash prizes and door prizes.
For those who travel great distances to watch live theatre, Loon Lake's 30th annual is slated for April 26, 27 and 28. Call 639-836-7771 to see if there are any tickets left. Do not forget live theatre is to be held at the Dekker Centre in North Battleford starting Sunday, April 21 to 27. Clubs from various cities are performing 7:30 p.m. shows for one week. An affordable ticket package is $145 or $35 for one evening show. The first show on April 21 is Battlefords Community Players performing "An Inspector Calls.” Please call the Dekker Centre box office for tickets which are selling quickly.
I am excited to be back home in my environment and hoping for great spring summer and fall seasons. The work is never-ending but I’m looking forward to mowing grass, pulling weeds, trimming trees, gardening and all the other jobs. The most annoying task is killing the nasty mosquitoes when they arrive in early May. In Yuma, Ariz., I did every one of the above except mowing grass because the trailer park employee did that. Oh yes, no mosquitoes in Yuma, just the occasional fly. I'll miss the roosters crowing at all hours, heralding sunrise, or so I thought. Not here. Their biological clocks don't work properly.
The weather forecast offers cooler temperatures at times before the end of April but that can be expected. Remember we are tough prairie people who are accustomed to every element that nature throws at us.
Chuckling at this quip: "Working at an unemployment office is an intense job. If you get fired, you have to come in the next day.”
