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Well here we are well into a new year of 2014. The news has been pretty quiet in the local area, but I guess after writing to the local newspaper for 39 years this January I shall be able to scrape up something happening.

The old year did end on the cold wintry days and moderate snowfall with some high winds to blow large drifts here and there.

The RM grader patrol has made many trips into the area to keep roads clear. In some areas the snow has been piling in to make roads heavy.

The new year came in with biting cold temperatures for a long spell. The first day back to school was a really nasty, cold day and our local school bus did not run. It did start to warm up, but then did we were hit with a wild blast of winds 90 km/h and up to 100 km/h and more in some places. Then it started to get milder, enough for the snow to melt into a slushy, mushy mess and creating icy spots on the highways, roads and streets. Guess it would be called a January thaw. Many places had trees and big brambles breaking off and down on the power lines to put the power off until the workers could get to all the outages. There was no problem in the local area, but we did get a power outage in late December that put everyone out of power for several hours. I think we were among the lucky ones as in the past year or so we had a power generator set up and it cuts in when the power is off. So we were OK. It is set up to run the whole house with electricity until the regular power comes back on.

Now that January is over, the worst part of winter is behind us. The month had a great variety of weather problems. It was not happening only to us, but to the rest of North America also had changeable weather featuring wind, cold temperatures and snow and rain. This happened to places that don't usually get that kind of water. It's a rather shock to those people. We are used to having this happen and expect these type of winter happenings and we should be prepared to have this type of weather. But a lot of times these things that need to be done, are done when the weather forces us to.

Visiting at the house of Phil and Lorna Bater for Christmas was their whole family for the big day. Visiting were Phil's sister Gwenda Rondesvedt of North Battleford and her daughter Cathy Rondesvedt of St. Paul, Alta.; granddaughters Chantel and Amanda Bater of Bonnyville, Alta.; Greg and Lourie Bater, Brandie Bater and a friend of North Battleford; locals Dwayne and Cheryle and Brittini Bater; Sara Lynn and Bradon Houk of North Battleford; and Dwayne and Cheryle's son Jason Bater of St. John, Nfld.

Visiting recently at Stanley and Dorothy Mills' was Kim and Melody Domont of Kindersley. They visited with other friends in the area.

It was nice to hear that Dana Mieise of Prince George, B.C. reached his trip end in British Columbia. He was on a mission to walk across Canada from the Maritime provinces to Victoria, B.C. by following the Trans Canada Trail. Dana passed through the local area in the middle of June 2013. He Passed through Onion Lake where he ran into a big problem and lost most of his camping gear. Thankfully good Samaritans came through to help him and replace items he lost. He did continued on his hiking trip and the good news has been released that Dana did reach Victoria . just before Christmas. It will be interesting now to see if he can go ahead and write his journal of his trip, one that he will remember.