Sympathy goes out to the Bill Hirchfeld family of Battleford West Park and Cando on the recent passing of Bill Hirchfeld of Battleford. Bill and his wife Rosemarie raised their family in the Cando area before they retired to the West Park area in Battleford.
Over the years Bill had many interesting hobbies. He was a good farmer, but also a softball player, collected antiques and coins and spent many hours hunting for treasures with metal detectors. He found a lot over the years. He was also one of the original organizing members of the Battlefords Treasure Hunters Club than ran for close to 20 years. He will be missed by all who knew him.
The funeral took place in North Battleford and burial was at the Cando Cemetery.
It is such a shame to see another historic building in North Battleford being demolished. When does it end? They will all soon be gone. What a loss of history. Why destroy everything? Just take much better care of these buildings. They are all so well built.
When the last tenants move out, why are they not boarding up the windows and taking better care of the property before someone else has an interest in the building? Why so much vandalism and all the broken windows to let the filthy pigeons get in and take over the building? Once they were in, it was the end of a good historic building.
Demolishing the old building does not solve the pigeon problem. Now where do they go but to other local buildings, spreading more filth on our streets that should be clean for the public and visitors to the city to walk on and park their vehicles. The pigeons are not going to go away on their own. They need to be controlled better and done away with before it gets to be a bigger problem. We don’t need the messy filth they leave and they could be disease carriers.
Let’s hope downtown North Battleford comes back to life and not with pigeons about. Goodbye to another piece of our history.
Visiting at the Mills farm was Susan Johnson and her two lady friends of Battleford as well as Kim Domont of Kindersley.
Where did our summer go? The schools are open again. The farmers are all well into the harvest season if the rains stay away. There has been a touch of frost in the local area. It’s going to be a long fall season with so many crops in all stages yet. It will be good when it’s all finished.
