Get well wishes go out to Robert Greer on his recent back surgery at the Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon. After his surgery, he spent a few days in Lloydminster with his youngest daughter Christine Greer.
Stanley Mills and his snow plane friend Ivan Towriss of Perdue took in the snow plane rally at Hawarden. Only three snow planes turned up for the rally but it still was a very busy day as it was Hawarden's skidoo rally as well. There were a good number of snowmobiles about. The community ladies had a beef on a bun meal for all attending. The next snow plane rally was held at Moosomin March 3. Anyone was welcome to attend. Due to the stormy weather, no one from this area attended. Many highways and roads were in poor shape.
Ninetieth birthday greetings go out to former Baljennie resident James Bailey. Jim has retired to a veterans' home for seniors in Saskatoon. Family and friends gathered for the special day Feb. 14. Happy birthday, Jim, from all your friends back home in Baljennie and Spiney Hill.
Talk about an old-fashioned winter on the prairies and that's just what has been happening this year. We have not had this amount of snowfall in the past several years. Some roads have almost become impassible with the huge piles of snow on the roadsides and more and more coming all the time.
Soon we hope the snow stops falling. The graders just about cannot keep up to move all the snow back off the roads. Some areas are calling for larger bulldozers to come and help out in some of the really bad areas. Snowplows and snowblowers are being dug out to try and blow the snow further back out of the way on road edges. Some of these snow machines have not been used for a few years.
We do need a few milder days to start melting and settling it all down a little more. It has not been all that cold but the start of March has been quite chilly and windy, which seems to be never ending to keep the newly fallen snow on the move. Semi-trucks are trying to haul grain and cattle out and it's a big job to keep roads open for them.
Now we are into March and likely to get lots more wet snow, freezing rain and lots of high winds. March is considered a windy month.
Days are getting much longer and now it has rolled around to the annual time where all across Canada set their clocks an hour ahead to fast time, all but Saskatchewan. They stay on the fast time all year long. Everyone is happy not to have to make that change twice a year. Also, we are not all that many days away from the first day of spring. Nothing around our area looks much like spring yet. Clocks will be an hour ahead across the country until the next change Nov. 3.
