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Cleanup day at the local cemetery was a washout due to the rain showers about. It had to be cancelled, but in the meantime. There were some periods of unexpected sunshine, however.

Bill Rayner and Stanley Mills got together and took lawn mowers down and got all the large areas mowed, but the area around the graves was left undone. A day or two later, to our surprise, some goodhearted souls went in and, with lawn mowers and weed whackers, cut and cleaned up the remaining grounds. Thanks a million to whoever did the job. It was just great to see it all completed.

Thanks also to the late Arthur Bater family for the restoration of their gravesite. It does look nice to see it has been repaired.

It is so sad to see so much damage done to the cedar shingles on the roof of the little replica church. Who did it? Woodpeckers, squirrels or whatever, it is a riddled mess.

Sympathy goes out to the Becker Family of Spinney Hill on the recent passing of Elizabeth Thorsteinson of Saskatoon on May 7. Elizabeth Heworth came from Springwater to teach school in Spinney Hill. She married Art Becker and raised a family of seven children and took in many foster children before Art passed away.

She remarried Rusty Thorsteinson and continued to live in Spinney Hill until she retired to the seniors' home in Saskatoon. She was a very active body in her church and community, she also did a lot of sewing and was a quilter. Elizabeth was 90 years old and is buried at the Spinney Hill Cemetery.

Sympathy also to the Prescesky families of North Battleford and Ruddell on the passing of Peter Prescesky. Peter married Laura and farmed in the Ruddell area. Since Laura was a school teacher, she taught school at Baljennie in 1954-1955. Peter and his family ran a farm parts store in North Battleford for many years and the family still keep it open. The funeral was held in North Battleford June 9.

The local farmers are having a real struggle to get all their crop fields seeded due to so much rain fall this spring seeding period. Some fields are all done and starting to sprout and looking into new growth. Some have been spraying for the first go around.

The growing season is so chilly and near frost a few nights. We do need some nice warm sunshine to get the soil warmed up for things to get growing. All we seem to have been getting is thundershowers and real heavy downpour rain showers and ever so much winds. The same weather system seems to be over the whole Prairies. Just hope it soon ends to a better growing weather, but that's the luck that goes with being a farmer.

The cooler weather has really upset the little birds' way of nesting and life. The little humming birds were at least 10 days later than other years. At first there was only one at the feeder, then a day or two later another one. Then one evening there were at least eight little fellows at the feeder. We put up another feeder and now they have all gone.

Now there are a lot of wild fruit trees in flower as well as the wild flowers and the apple tree blooms.