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The 24th annual Svoboda Dance Festival held in the Dekker Center over the last weekend was surely a delight to attend. We attended Saturday morning and afternoon only, but the performances were outstanding. The ages were from four to 18 years. While the wee ones are so cute, especially in their pretty costumes, to watch the older children perform left us in awe. It was an adjudicated competition so all care was taken to have complete quiet and no one entered or left while a number was in progress. Even after being asked many times to turn off cell phones and iPads people still could not manage without them, shining their lights around. It interferes with the judge's work because it is distracting.

The dancers came from many places in Saskatchewan and Alberta so it is not only local dancers taking part. We would have liked to know where each number came from, but this information was not given out. The adjudicator gave good advice and many compliments to the performers, and gave them a score. Sunday, solo and duet awards were presented at 11:30 a.m. and in the afternoon Special awards were given. Prize money is donated by businesses and individuals.

Duplicate bridge was played April 28 at the Do Drop In with eight tables in play. They held their Rookie - Master Tournament, which is organized once a year to help those beginners who are taking lessons, to play with an experienced player. The rookies take bridge playing lessons at the Pioneer Hall in North Battleford every Tuesday afternoon, with the North Battleford Bridge Club. Top scores Tuesday evening went to Beatrice Novlan and Bernard Gregoire and the second place team was Maureen Campbell and David Sharpe.

Contract Bridge held Monday evening had the top score go to Mary Greenwald and second to Clarence Dasilva.

The seeding of crops at Taber, in southern Alberta, is four weeks behind. I expect this time period applies across the board in every area since winter has held on so long. The Gouw Onion farm at Taber has the onion crop in the ground and they were seeding beets last week.

May 1 weekend usually sees the first of the garage sales, and I'm sure there were lots of them. Once one has to work at downsizing, it isn't too tempting to attend, but many people enjoy spending the weekend going to as many as they can.

The Purple Finches are back and hungry, and slowly the other summer birds are returning. The geese are happy to find open water at last. That west wind last week did get the ice starting to move, as it broke some of the bird barrier atop the swimming hole berm and you could see it piling up on the shore along Tobey's Point. So the big question every spring is, which way will the wind blow when the ice really breaks up and how much damage will it do? I haven't seen an ice pool like we always have at Chitek, just private guessing going on.

The United/Anglican Church is holding a plant and bake sale May 17 in the church basement.

Yvonne Mackereth enjoyed the company of her sister Elise Ventapora from Edmonton, Alta. last week. The girls also visited their brother and sister-in-law, Leon and Joanne Proulx, in Meota.

It's nice to have Yvette Lessard back home and managing by herself now her wrist is healed. She's taking therapy still.

Irene Theroux from St. Paul, Alta. is visiting her cousin Beulah Corbeil in Meota. She visited folks in Loon Lake on her way down to Meota.

Our family is excited to learn that a cousin, Michelle Willis from Cambridge, New Zealand, is coming in mid-May, for a month or two. She will start out with my girls in Wetaskiwin, Leduc and Taber, Alta., likely travelling into British Columbia with Joyce from Wetaskiwin.

Highway 3 between Shellbrook and Shell Lake closed April 27 due to a huge washout that would have dropped a vehicle between 25 and 30 feet, by the turn-off into Mont Nebo. The road grade is built up high there. This is very inconvenient for folks east of Shell Lake wanting to go to Prince Albert as the only paved road is through Blaine Lake, and the grid road options are rough.

Donna Lambert from Leduc, Alta. spent a couple days with her mother, Lorna Pearson, in Meota, which brought Mother's Day early. She also visited her granddaughter, Santana Lambert, in Turtleford. She enjoyed joining other seniors at the Do Drop In Monday for shuffleboard and Chit Chat. Irene Theroux also joined us. All visitors are most welcome.

The health program at the Meota Community Complex is still ongoing and you can walk at the hall every day from 9 a.m. to noon. In the winter it was to get out of the snow and cold, next it will be to get away from the mosquitoes and dust. The Strides program is on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, same time slot.

The Meota Community monthly luncheon, put on by the Hall Committee, will be May 16 at noon.

The next wellness clinic will be May 14. Since it's only every second month, try to remember to visit at the Do Drop In between 12:15 and 2:30 a.m.

Summer hours are now in effect at the transfer station, north of Meota - Saturday, Sunday and Monday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

With your library card, a computer or tablet, you have access to "Zinio" where you can read about 100 magazines without the high cost of subscribing. If you should service or repair your lawn mower before the grass gets ahead of you, go to www.lakeland.lib.sk.ca and click on the alphabetic list of resources to check out how to fix that lawn mower.

If the snow ever stops falling folks can get on with their yard cleanup job. The snow in Alberta found a father and two teenage sons headed to the mountains for their last ski trip of the year only to find themselves sitting for an hour and a half while the road was cleared, so they could go back home to Calgary last Sunday. They never did get to the mountains.

Christy and Trevor Gray of Meota are the proud parents of a son, Nathan Murray, on April 20. Proud grandparents are Gail and Murray Walker of rural Meota.

Top score at the Do Drop In on Monday evening was Robert Iverson and next was Trudy Iverson. They had three tables in play and enjoyed a nice evening.