A busy crew showed up at the Meota Cemetery on June 2 and made short work of the grass cutting. They came with riding mowers and push mowers, trimmers and brooms. It is a large area to do, so many hands made light work. Linda Ard took out coffee about 9:30 a.m. and by noon it all looked very nice. The community extends a vote of thanks to all who helped in any way.
Duplicate bridge was played May 24 at the Do Drop In with top score going to Maureen Campbell and Mary Greenwald. Second high were Julie and Glen Moore and tied for third place were Jetta and Terence Dasilva and Joan and Rudy Wiens. May 26 in the city top score went to Vern Iverson and Gerry Fernandes. In second place were Jean Beattie and Cletus Scherman and third were Donna Scherman and Catriona Winterholt.
Contract bridge at the Do Drop In on May 30 found top score by Linda Ard and second high was Vern Iverson.
Starting June 1, distracted driving in British Columbia will cost $543 for the first offence, $888 for the second offence and more than $1,000 for the third.
A fundraising yard sale is planned for the Edam Enriched Manor on June 17 and 18. They will accept gently-used items for sale. Items can be dropped off at the manor or arrange for pickup by calling 306-397-3000. Their objective is to provide quality housing for seniors that enriches their lives and their community. Programs in effect each day are: Monday at 3 p.m. - cards, Tuesday at 2 p.m. - pie and coffee, Wednesday at 2 p.m. - bingo, Thursday at 2 p.m. giant Jenga and Friday at 3 p.m. happy hour. Visitors are always welcome to join them.
If your children are not familiar with talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they will love, go to your library and ask about Tumble Books 鈥� e-books for e-kids. You will be glad you did and children are always looking for a new experience.
Mark your calendar for June 18 when Innovation Credit Union sponsors their family day at the North Battleford Western Development Museum. It will be a fun-packed afternoon with activities for the whole family.
Joyce has returned to New Zealand at the family鈥檚 request to help the family move elderly Margaret into a suite in Resthaven Home in Cambridge at Aukland. Her husband David is already a resident there. In one month they have to empty the house, clean it and put it on the market. Since Margaret has cancer she doesn鈥檛 last too long helping sort through everything. Like many of our generation they saved 鈥渆verything.鈥� This included magazines, records, manuals for airplanes, vehicles and whatever. She has several hobbies, too, but she can鈥檛 move it all into the two-room suite that is in the same building as her husband. Joyce is finding out that winter, with the temperature down to 2 C, is chilly and has an electric heating blanket under her sheet to be comfortable in bed. Burning the fireplace doesn鈥檛 help much as most of the heat goes out the chimney.
Congratulations to Paulette and Terri Neale of the Battlefords on their 10th wedding anniversary, which they celebrated by joining the group of canasta players at the Do Drop In on June 3. The group from town helped them celebrate and came out early and had supper together at the hotel. The top winning couple at canasta was Pat Chapman and Bev McCrimmon, second were Paulette Neale and Lorna Pearson and third were Cora Christiansen and Barbara Soloninko.
Rivers West District annual general meeting is June 15 in Biggar. This is your chance to learn how the district is run, ask questions and voice your views to the board of directors.
Open house at the Battlefords Sailing Club on Saturday was postponed because of the funeral for Alan Ray in the village that afternoon. It was much too windy for a sailboat to go out on the lake until evening anyway.
The wind has been so strong this spring and dries everything out so badly. We are looking for some rain again as the gardens are looking good, as well as the new crops. It is quite exciting to watch everything growing so rapidly, as well as the weeds, of course.
My son Bradley and Kelly from Carstairs, Alta. are on their way home from a week of fishing at Beauval, along with Sal and Norm Bouvier, who will stay another week.
The fish were biting fine but so were the no-see-ums, leaving them with itchy legs, arms and bodies. However, the weather was perfect and they had a good holiday.
Good news from my grandson and his house at Fort MacMurray. It is still standing and not damaged by the heat on the outside, with a wind change that saved his area. They are having to do a lot of cleaning and scrubbing down walls, but are able to live in it. I鈥檒l have more details next week.
On the field east of the Meota Golf Course, on Sunday evening, we saw a single antelope. I have a picture to prove it. It was lying down but did get up to prove Brad was right when I would have expected it to be a deer.
