Condolences to the Huard and Letkeman families on the passing of 78-year-old Ruby Huard formerly of the Lorenzo district.聽She and her husband聽Stan raised nine children.聽Twenty years ago they moved their farm house to Unity and this is where Ruby resided.聽Stan passed away a few years ago, but she kept very active with embroidery, sewing, picking berries, growing a huge garden, canning many preserves, belonging to the CWL and visiting her large family, which included nine precious great-grandchildren.
The Huard children all received their education at Mayfair school.聽A post office in the Lorenzo area was manned by Ruby until it closed June 30, 1964.聽Back then, the post office had to be open five and a half days a week for eight hours with the pay of $25 a month.聽Mayfair post office became the central one with all the small ones closing.
Spiritwood and District Horticultural Society annual gardening and craft show is on Aug. 11 and 12 at the Civic Centre in Spiritwood.聽The award presentation is to be held at 7 p.m., Aug. 12.聽聽For more information, contact Glen at 306-883-2639 or George at 306-883-2759.聽I鈥檓 sure there will be giant veggies as usual on display as there are some outstanding gardeners in that area.
An awesome weekend family reunion was held at the farm of Ken and Barb Sorenson.聽It was a Buziak reunion as Ken鈥檚 mom, Mary, was a Buziak.聽There were 60 people quading, playing volleyball, skeet shooting and more 鈥� activities for everyone.聽Wikipedia says the definition of skeet shooting is participants using shotguns to attempt to break clay targets mechanically flung into the air from two fixed stations at high speed from a variety of angles.聽聽The oldest member was 92-year-old Pauline Kolenosky from Viking, Alta. Pauline is the only living child from parents John and Eva Buziak.聽The farthest group hailed from Oshawa, Ont., thus making this part of a fantastic summer holiday.聽All five daughters from Ken were in attendance, three from his first marriage and Louise and Ashley with wife Barbara.聽They have a reunion every five years.聽Everyone took home with them many happy memories and more photos to be added to their collection,
Living in Montreal will certainly be a very different landscape for Jessie Konopelski as she will be relocating there as of September.聽In her retirement years, Jessie will be a senior missionary with the Mormon Church for 18 months.聽On Thursday, Aug. 4, 15 neighbours gathered at her farm house for a farewell supper, wishing her 鈥渁u revoir.鈥澛犅燡essie鈥檚 youngest son, Daniel, wife Jenny and three sons are moving to the farm.聽Welcome back home to聽Daniel, as it was always his dream to farm.聽He had been residing in southern Alberta for the past four years and did long distance farming during seeding and harvest.
鈥淏unnock Days鈥� are scheduled for Aug. 20 in Rabbit Lake, so come out for a lot of action and good times.聽There is a pancake breakfast, silent auction, children鈥檚 activities, family entertainment (no booze) garage sales and of course the bunnock tournament consisting of four people to a team.聽Contact Brenda Aumack at 306- 824-4719 or Shirley MacKenzie at 306-824-2070 for registration or more information.聽The tournament calls for 24 teams with an entry fee of $60 guaranteeing three games.聽Bunnock originated in Russia in the early 1900鈥檚.聽Originally played with ankle bones from dead horses, modern day society uses plastic bones. The Rabbit Lake Board of Trade is putting on this annual event, which consists of hard working volunteers to make the day a success.
Rabbit Lake Village is also celebrating its 90th birthday, so a large birthday cake along with ice cream is to be served in the afternoon.聽A concession booth will be on site, and a pork barbecue supper will be hosted by the Rose Gill Lodge Auxiliary (Senior Citizen Group).
My niece Cindy Tetz had a lovely wedding at her parents acreage July 16.聽Many relatives camped in the yard, thus making a weekend of festivities.聽Cindy is the oldest daughter of Bob and Leone Tetz of Battleford.聽She married William Dickerson from the United States.
Remember there are a few weeks left of children gathering at Mayfair鈥檚 Library on Thursdays from 11 a.m. to noon for fun-packed activities with Teresa, our librarian.聽Carol Dewing is always volunteering at the library and also enjoys seeing the children.
The Kramer Auction held for retiring farmer David Thompson of Alticane聽at聽the end of June was very successful.聽Due to health reasons, David decided it is wise to quit farming, but his wife still owns the drug store in Hafford.
Harvest proves to be just around the corner as the days are shortening and the evenings are getting cooler. Meanwhile crops are quickly ripening.聽Where have the hazy, lazy days of summer gone?
It鈥檚 hard to believe that the Saskatoon berries are only starting to dry up now.聽They have been out for a month, but the bushes that I recently located have an abundance of berries on them.聽In a week, the blueberries should have also ripened as we had an early hot spring with no major frosts even in the north.
