Next Saturday, Oct. 25 at 3 p.m. in the Meota Library, there will be a guest speaker. First-time author Eugenie Davidson is from Meadow Lake and she will be doing some reading from her new book Choosing to Bloom. Her book is about life choices and she will answer questions afterwards. There will also be coffee afterwards so please come out and support your library. Those who have read the book found it very interesting - and it has a happy ending.
Library hours will be cut by one hour a week, starting on Jan. 2, 2015.
Mark your calendar for the flu shots that will be available Wednesday, Oct. 15, at the Do Drop In, from 4 to 7 p.m. This is later in the day than other years so may work better for working people. You do not need an appointment.
Bev and Murray McCrimmon went to Creighton where they visited his son, Ken, for a few days last month.
Five of us gathered at the Do Drop In on Monday to say farewell to Yvonne Mackereth who is moving this week to Lac La Biche, Alta. She has enjoyed her few years in Meota, but now wants to be nearer her two sisters and another brother in Alberta. We will find playing shuffleboard on Mondays won't be the same without her.
Contract bridge last Monday, Sept. 29, at the Do Drop In found top score for Linda Ard and second to Trudy Iverson.
Duplicate bridge on Tuesday, Sept. 30 had high score by Jette and Terrance Dasilva and second by Bernard and Lucille Gregoire.
Friday, Oct. 3 was the day Livelong chose for their Senior Day. They had a smaller turnout than usual because of other events on the same day but those who attended had a very nice day. They are very hospitable so made sure everyone was taken care of. The program was well organized and ran on time. The Kaiser players had their games in the morning. After lunch we played whist, then cribbage. A group of eight people played bridge in the afternoon. From Meota were Beulah Corbiel, Robert Iverson, Joyce Antoine and myself. They gave away many door prizes and sold 50/50 tickets. They served sandwiches, fruit and veggie trays and many desserts, along with tea and coffee, all appreciated by everyone.
Another friendly afternoon was spent at Caleb Village when Beulah and I went in for coffee with Gladys Lehman. We were lucky in meeting both her daughters Betty Desmarais and Louise Kok, as well as other folks we knew. Gwen and Bill Neville stopped to visit and Bill played cribbage with us. Renee Lessard stopped to chat and Bernice and Winston Tait were getting settled in. The staff was serving ice cream and drinks.
There were so many interesting articles in last week's paper it took a while to get through it. The story by Lorna McLeanof schooling back in the early days in North Battleford was good. The many changes, especially of the dress code when they finally agreed it was OK for girls to wear slacks and male teachers were wearing suits and ties. The explanation by Keith Anderson of what has happened to our poplar trees this summer answers the many questions we have all had. The report on Borden's 'Threshing Days' on Sept. 27, sounds so interesting - how does anyone have time to train a couple steers to pull a vehicle? The great variety of horses that were there and the antique rigs they pulled were endless. I'd never heard of white percherons, my Dad's percherons were always black. It sounds like a day we missed but will keep in mind for another year.
Pearl Hawkins told me about the great weekend she had in Saskatoon with her five sisters from Victoria, Lloyminster, Moose Jaw and two from Saskatoon, all visiting with their mother, Eugena Swayze. It was a time for being together and laughing and reminiscing and all appreciated the support of their husbands.
There was an error last week in the report of the fund raiser for Chad Keens, it was a group of concerned friends who worked together for a good cause, not the Lions Club as I indicated, that organized it. The group will be submitting a full report on the success of the event soon. It would really work the best in the future when there are events to report on, including the curling action when that starts up, if people would get in touch with me so the report can be accurate. Everyone can appreciate an accurate report and if submitted by the party concerned, it is best.
I see the Juncos have arrived and are busy doing their clean-up job around the bird feeders. Son Gordon at Telkwa, B.C. reports on a pair of deer that were eating away on his cherry tree and sunflowers, only a few feet from the deck where he was sitting. It's an endless battle trying to keep the bear and deer away. He's even put in new fencing and may end up putting an electric wire atop it.
The Husky Oil development south of Edam is growing so the lights at night look like a little village. There are oil tanks everywhere and the men in the trailers at the campground in Edam appear to be getting the trailer park winterized.
Not many of us are happy with our TV programs, and we aren't even wanting much yet, but when winter settles in hope to have time for more. Why do they list programs between 25 and 31 when they don't broadcast them? Now with our computers we really don't need the TV.
Contract bridge was played on Monday evening, with high scores going to Mary Greenwald first and Vern Iverson second. It was another nice evening of games.
The weather channel announced a hail storm in Timaru, New Zealand recently - it is spring time down under, and their cold temperatures are similar to what we are having now, and seldom get below zero all winter.
An article on the computer tells of the Kellogs breakfast cereal plant has moved to China from London, Ontario. It goes on to say we should be paying more attention to shopping for Canadian- made items, which we should have started doing many years ago and we wouldn't be in the state we're in where everything we need is made overseas somewhere and all food doesn't adhere to high sanitary conditions that we demand. So do read your labels when you're shopping and support our own workers.
