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Lots of wind with warmer temperatures, but not hot, has reduced the snow banks to puddles, but it's not all gone yet. More shingles took flight with the strong winds last week, so more fixing to come.

Duplicate bridge was played at the Do Drop In Tuesday evening last week with the top scores going to Gerry Fernandez and Eric Callbeck and second top to Mary Greenwald and Jim Hamilton.

The Northern Lakes Economic Development Corporation started up several years ago with the aim of improving health care in Spiritwood and surrounding area. It has paid off, after a lot of work and effort, as the implementation of a Collaborative Emergency Center (CEC) has been set up in their Health Complex in Spiritwood. This will provide 24 hour per day care. This means more medical services available for more hours.

The Meota Chorus entertained at St. Joseph's Church in North Battleford April 9 to a nice-sized crowd that seemed to appreciate their efforts. One number even hadtwo couples up dancing and many joined in singing the old familiar tunes. A lunch and several games of bingo closed the afternoon.

Gladys Lehman is back home as of April 9, following hip surgery April 1 in Saskatoon. She is taking therapy now to get that leg working again. We wish her all the best in her progress.

Word has come of the passing of Walter Ard's brother Lawrence and his wife Helga, within a 24-hour period, in Hamilton, Ont. They were just moving into a care home. Our condolences to their family.

A warning that's showing up in the computer - calls from area codes 809, 284 and 876 should not be answered. The 809 is from the Dominican Republic and if you should miss the call and phone back they could charge up to $2,425 per minute.

Now that we don't have to contend with snow and ice, and most of the snowbirds are back,we are hoping more folks will join us Friday afternoons for Kaiser at 2 p.m. It's always a pleasant time.

We had snow flurries Friday as well as rain, but didn't get the 15 centimetres that Fort MacMurray did. We had to walk the plank to get across the water into the Do Drop In that evening, so we could play Canasta. There was a good turnout. Highest scores were earned by Christine Iverson and Shirley Tebay, second by Arlene Walker and Paulette Neale and third by Bev McCrimmon and Tracy Esquirol. The top score was won by a couple at a table playing with six players, and they never even played the fifth game, so that was remarkable.A nice lunch and social time followed.

Congratulations to Louise Haubold of North Battleford on receiving a volunteer award at the Saskatchewan Regional Parks Association Convention in Saskatoon recentlyfor the work she did at, and for, the Little Loon Regional ParkatGlaslyn, while a resident of the Medstead area for many, many years.

The Meota Library has information for people to make better use of their local library by advising what is available there. They have 5,038 items - books, movies, talking books, large print books, kid's books and more. When you have a library card all of this is available. This week's tip is that there are 1,600 newspapers available. This is at your fingertips, 24/7 to read the latest news of the day, or the stock market, or sporting events.

Congratulations to Pearl Hawkins on her well-deserved volunteer award received April 9 at Radisson, presented by the Rivers West organization.

There are folks in the hospital again, so we wish them speedy recoveries as now with summer coming, who wants to be in there? It was good to visit with Yvette Lessard Monday afternoon when she came over to the Do Drop In. She hopes to be rid of her cast next week and be a free woman again.

My drive to Turtleford on Sunday was enjoyable, taking my time and watching for birds and signs of spring. By now the pussy willows should be out everywhere but they seem slow. Next will be the crocuses, I'll find them somewhere,likely south of Murray Lake in a pasture. The farmland is so fertile through this whole area it seems such a shame to see the oil patch facilities taking up more and more of it. There are more black oil tanks than silver grain bins. It may be progress in onesense, but the world does have to be fed, even if they're rich in oil.

The snowbirds are back from the sunny south with reports of a fantastic winter. Those I spoke to were in Yuma, Ariz. and enjoyed the beautiful weather, a warmer winter than usual,the activities every day (they say you'll live 10 years longer) the company that came to visit, the golfing and the cheaper groceries. George and Diane Lessard have been back a few days and report the weather was over 100 F, or near 40 C, when they left. Since it is dry, the heat is intense. There are about 180,000 people living in Yuma County, and add in80,000 to 90,000 snowbirds andthere are lots of people in the area over winter. Dale and Joyce Tebay are back, reporting that they live in the best of all the many parks because so many people are there from here and the Battlefords.Dennis and Juliette Tebay also report a good winter, but admitted golfingin the heat the last few days was a challenge. Gary and Elaine Poole had a good winter in the south, but are always happy to get home to family and the workplace.

A birthday party was held in the Catholic Church hall April 12, honouring Bob Zurowski. They enjoyed a potluck supper and birthday cake and social time.

It was good to see the village workman repair the street in front of the Do Drop In to end the problems we have had, Thank-you from all of us.

Several folks from Meota attended the Turtle River Parish Palm Sunday Service at Turtleford. A potluck luncheon and social time meeting new people are always interesting.

CAA invites your opinion on the worst road in the province at casask.ca/worstroads. So far the Highway 24 from Spiritwood to Chitek Lake is running second place. Most roads so far are in the north but Highway 26 will soon be like the rest with all the heavy trucks using it and one area where it is breaking upbadly.

There have been bears in the Turtleford area as well as a cougar that has been sighted. The high influx of snow geese everywhere has prompted resources officials to issue permits or licences to hunters to take up to 60 birds each. Two years ago they started out allowing 20 birds each, last year it was 40 and this year it is 60, and hardly making any difference. These geese do damage in the tundra where they nest that is causing problems with the caribou feeding areas.

The library here does not have either the Spiritwood History book or the Idylwild book, so does someone have either to donate?

Contract bridge was played at the Do drop In Monday evening with high scores by Robert Iverson and Ray Davie. Robert had been down in Moose Jaw attending the Moose Jar Regional Duplicate Bridge Tournament all last week. Also there were Joyce Antoine, Eric Callbeck and Gail Hilderman, Gerry Fernandez and his wife, Cletus and Donna Scherman. There were three sessions every day, totalling something like 500 tables played through the week. There were players from Manitoba, Alberta and the United States as well as Saskatchewan.