Crops are all seeded now and are up and growing fast, but moisture is needed badly. There have been a few light spotty rain showers in certain areas. The crops do need a good three-day gentle rain to get the moisture needed to really get growing. Some crops are at the stage for weed spraying.
There have been two gas antique tractor workshops held at the Western Development Museum in North Battleford. They had a good turnout of volunteers to help out. It does make the jobs to do a little quicker.
One by one they are getting these old antique tractors mobile, but there is always more of them to be bought into the workshop for repair work. Sometimes parts have to be handmade as they are no longer able to buy these parts. Some of these antique tractors have not been mobile and running for a few years.
They have also worked on the old stationary engines. One they specially got running had sat for a good number of years. The stationary engine is 100 years old this year. It was built in 1916. It is up and running now. What a thrill to all the workers.
Sympathy goes out to the Kirkland family, formerly of Spinney Hill, on the recent passing of Nina Kirkland from the Battlefords District Care Centre in Battleford. While in Spinney Hill area, Nina and her younger brothers attended the old Spinney Hill School. She has been gone from the area for quite a number of years.
Also sympathy to the Ross families of Spinney Hill and Saskatoon on the recent passing of Donnie Ross of Saskatoon. The family formerly lived in the Spinney Hill area before moving on and ending up in North Battleford where Donnie took most of his schooling.
Father’s Day is coming on soon, so I want to wish all the fathers a happy day just for them.
We were all saddened to hear of the recent passing of Dorothy Rogers of Saskatoon, nee Wintersgill, formerly of Baljennie. She took part of her schooling at the new Baljennie School. Sympathy to all the Wintersgill and Rogers families.
Stanley Mills spent two days at the Western Development Museum at Museum Days helping with a miniature display of various working parts, tools, Ferris wheel, merry-go-round and little farm buildings and toy animals, all handmade and put together by Lloyd How of North Battleford, formerly from the Cut Knife area. It was a fun day for the school children bused in. They were all amazed and got a few eye-openers to see the mobile items all going and moving. It was powered by little batteries, electric motors and steam. A little pump, pumping water continuously, did bring some questions. Lloyd has donated the whole setup to the museum.
The children had a lot of other various indoor and outdoor things to see and do. They even had a little taste of what farming long ago was all about, plus horse wagon and fire truck rides, a dog show, petting zoo and many other things. It was a full two days of fun for them all.
