The Western Development Museum's Those were the Days has come and gone for another year. All the volunteers did a fabulous job at all their important things to be done to make the show what it was.
There were a lot of different activities and demonstrations going on throughout the museum and Heritage Village. There were fire truck and wagon rides for anyone to enjoy. A fun area was set up for the children of all ages. There was also a dog show and a petting zoo that went over very well.
The story of threshing went over well and they had lots of help threshing. They had as many as they could of the antique equipment running. The Parade of Power each day did bring in a lot of interest. There were one or two antique tractors that did not make the parade.
A pancake breakfast each morning did bring out a lot of people. The barbecue show down and chili cooking contest went well. What a variety they had. The first day, Saturday, was a beautiful day weather wise. Sunday was a little different day. It started off a lovely day, but the heavy dark rain clouds moved in with more rain setting in to close things down much sooner than they were to close. The Parade of Power was cut back a little and a little shorter. It was so disappointing to not see the famous calliope not there. That has always been a part of Those Were the Days. It all ended with a pot luck supper for all the volunteers. Now looking forward to the next year.
On the second weekend of August, a family reunion for the Robert and Irene Greer family was held at Shawn Day’s home at Meota. It was well attended by family members from Ontario, Manitoba and Alberta. Some of the family had not seen each other for close to 20 years. Later this year Robert and Irene Greer will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary.
The Ranger Lake Bible Camp, with all their activities and with well over 100 people, was put under alert for a short time Aug. 10 when a shooting resulted in a death. The camp is close to the farm yard where the incident occurred.
I well believe many of the travellers between the Battlefords were disappointed with the people in a protest on the Husky Oil spill in the North Saskatchewan river. Think of all the big semi truckers with deliveries to be made on time and to all the holiday travellers from all parts of the country passing through this area at this time of year, then to have to get tied up in a long slow down with all the walking people. I would think there would be a much better way to protest. That was a poor time of the day to block and hold up a big major highway like Highway 16. It was just lucky no emergency happened and no one was hurt. Â
Our weather continues to do some queer things – more rain and thunder storms to tie up the haying and soon now the harvesting. We do all hope it ends soon, but the skies are not settled yet. A large low pressure is slowly moving along.
