The only wooden timber bridge left on the main grid road had to have the top removed so some of the main girders and beams beneath could be replaced. A nearby beaver dam was also demolished.
The bridge work did hold up the traffic for a few hours. Affected was the main road out of the area and there are no other routes to detour to close by. Sections of the only route that could have been used were under water. The only other routes led back to Spinney Hill to Highway 376 to Maymont or to the Lizard Lake Community Pasture and west to Highway 4.
The bridge lies across a wide creek close to Edward Wintersgill's farmyard.
Belated birthday greetings to Elaine Milman of North Battleford, formerly of Richard, on the celebration of her 80th birthday. A gathering for family and friends was held in Saskatoon.
SaskPower had a sub-contactor move into the area, clearing back brush and trees with a brush mulching machine to make way for a new power line. It is being rerouted since the old line goes into a back bush wilderness area where no lives any longer and the power lines are not needed. Many of the farms the power line served since 1954 have been sold and the occupants have moved away. The land was bought up, but no one else came back to live there. The farmyards are all vacant and some buildings have been demolished. SaskPower will be in later to build the new rerouted lines and this time the poles will be on the edge of the road allowance and not in the farmers' fields.
Another Bjelde Creek old timer has passed away. We were all sad to hear of the passing of Cecil Radchenko. Burial was at the Willowmoore Cemetery. Sympathy is extended to all the family.
Stanley and Dorothy Mills were recent visitors with Dorothy's sister Margaret and her husband Sam Parrish of Willowmoore.
Our weather has changed a great deal in the past few days. The leaves are all bursting out to give the countryside a lush green shade.
The farmers are all going full force, getting newly worked fields seeded. The soil is in good moisture condition, but there are nasty little wet sloughs and potholes with water in most of them to work around. It is so easy to get the big outfits stuck in the mud. We don't need anymore falling moisture until the crops are all seeded. It will take up to a month to get the seeding all done. Some farmers have many acres to be seeded. We have had several days of very high east winds gusting. It does make it a little tricky for farmers who have to spray the fields to be seeded.
