This is the last long weekend of summer. Please arrive alive by being patient with increased RV and farm traffic. Everyone wants to get to their destination so driving with caution and patience can help everyone arrive alive.
Don鈥檛 be the guy who claims 鈥淚 didn鈥檛 know!鈥� Organizers of fall events and activities actively post registration information on Facebook, put up posters and ads in the paper as well as details in school newsletters.听 Please take a proactive role in seeking this information rather than claiming you didn鈥檛 know.
You can be sure after the long weekend, things are going to get a whole lot busier here in town. Here is some of what鈥檚 upcoming:
Our three schools resume classes Sept. 4 for this next school year. Welcome week activities will be underway including UPS welcome back Pancake Breakfast on Friday, Sept. 7, for all parents, students, bus drivers and staff.听
Sept. 6, Unity Minor Football will host a night lights game on Warrior field.
Sept. 7, the Unity Warriors Friday Night Lights event includes pre-game activities and entertainment, food booth, 50/50 and Warrior game kickoff at 7 p.m. free fun family event.听 I can be contacted for this event.
Sept. 8 will see a 3-on-3 ball hockey event as a fundraiser for the new Outdoor Rec Venue under construction. Anyone can come out as there will be face painting and kids鈥� carnival games as well as an awesome prize table and hockey to watch. Contact Chantelle Bretzer at UCHS.
Sept. 8 will be the Unity Miners fundraising fun day of golf. Registration is at 9 a.m. with a 10 a.m. start. There will be prizes for holes, closest to pin, putting contests, etc, totalling a possible $60,000. Lunch and supper are part of the $75 per golfer registration fee, limited to 144. Contact Jake Senger at 306-228-7120.
Sept. 28 and 29 is the Unity Ag Society annual Fall Fair and Trade Show at the Unity Community Centre.听Application for booths are now being accepted and fair booklets will be out soon for that special project, sewing, canning, cooking or terrific garden produce.听 Contact Joan Sperle, Elaine Sperle or Irene Lacoursiere for details, or you can inquire at the town office at 306-228-2621 and they can direct you to the right folks for this.
Our museum season is almost done for this year. Watch for pancake brunches in November. Guests are still welcome by appointment.
The weekly farmers market continues to mid-September.
The food bank can always use donations.听 Consider an extra item or two at the case lot or 10 for 10 sales at your local food stores. Don鈥檛 wait for a food drive as there are bins set up at both Unity food stores for contributions all year long.
Summer is over; I bet those community churches would love to see people back in their pews. Remember they provide more than Sunday services at their buildings and their volunteers and their congregations upkeep and maintain their properties. They play host to annual music festival and Remembrance Day services. The Ministerial Association organizes the Christmas Service of Remembrance as well as the Way of the Cross Walk and helps organize/participate in Remembrance Day services. Their halls are used for classes, wedding and baby showers, anniversaries, family gatherings and the always popular Fall Suppers. There is more to our churches than Easter lilies and poinsettias. Unity churches includes St. Peter鈥檚 Catholic Church, Unity United Church, Lutheran Church, Unity Baptist Church and the Anglican Church, which, while not holding regular service, still provides activity and events at their church (contact Val Middleton for updates).
The Riders are fun to talk about again after defeating the undefeated Stamps to a sold out crowd at home. We are headed to the Labour Day classic and although we don鈥檛 get to watch our favourite player number 7 Dressler play, it is a great Saskatchewan experience nonetheless.
Coffee row folks 鈥� the urban dictionary refers to coffee row as 鈥渁 place where groups of people, typically seniors and farmers, gather to have coffee and converse about the day鈥檚 events.鈥� The term has its origins in rural Saskatchewan and Alberta. Typically 鈥渃offee row鈥� occurs in small town restaurants and co-ops, but the phenomena have been observed in fast food restaurants in large cities as well as any restaurant that serves 鈥渂ottomless鈥� cups of coffee and is not too strict on what some would consider 鈥渓oitering.鈥� Today people might turn to Facebook or Twitter for a quick answer on 鈥渨hat kind of bug is this, or who would be the best guy to go to for a new muffler.鈥� But it wasn鈥檛 all that many years ago, this kind of assistance was found in a place fondly referred to as 鈥渃offee row.鈥� So you can see life is full of fun and activity in Unity and our friends at coffee row sharing this traditional part of our community culture. Until next time鈥�
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