The recreation board for the RM of Glenside held their first meeting of a new season Sept. 5, at the home of Linda Hardenne of Lizard Lake. Attending were members from Baljennie and Lizard Lake. The Spinney Hill ladies could not attend due to harvest. Two visitors, Lillian Dove and Dixie Dehr from the west side of the Lizard Lake area, also attended.
New grant money has been issued for the upcoming season. Donations are going to be made to the Sonningdale and Crane Creek seniors' quilting group, Ranger Lake Bible Camp Youth, Dimond Lodge in Biggar. Monarch 4-H Club, Maymont Dance Club and a new group, Glenside Ladies on the Move, for a yoga zumba instructor. Their classes will be held November to March at Dixie Dehr's home in Lizard Lake. Everyone is welcome to attend.
There is some interest in having a learn to crochet class, birdhouse building class and glass etching workshop. Anyone in the RM of Glenside with other ideas for classes or projects is urged to contact members in each of the three districts. Members are Irene Greer, Dorothy Mills and Joan Rayner of Baljennie, Tracy Gardiner and Andrea Owen of Spinney Hill and Linda Hardenne of Lizard Lake. A second representative from the Lizard Lake area is still needed.
We are sorry to hear the Lizard Lake Community Centre has closed its doors due to a lack of new members interested. Most of the older people have moved elsewhere or passed away. It is so hard to get the new people in the areas to take part in much of anything. Community activities are all slowly shutting down as the children are all interested in the town and city where they go to school.
The next meeting is set to be held at the home of Dixie Dehr of Lizard Lake at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 7.
The RM of Glenside has been busy grading the back and side roads and mowing ditches. A gravel outfit moved into the area and has been spreading gravel on roads needing it.
September has been a month of variety in weather. It started off with a heat wave for the first week, but suddenly the heat swung right back and chilly nights resulted. Jack Frost had to have his hands in the pie and the whole area got a good shot of frost the night and early morning of Sept. 13 and 14. What was green and the flowerbeds were suddenly black. It did end a season much too quickly.
The better part of the crops were ripe and not harmed by the frost, but any that were still green may not have fared so well. During the hot days, a good number of combines harvesting canola did not run during the day, but waited for the cooler evenings and worked into the wee hours. Daytime temperatures made the canola too hot to store in metal bins. Cereal crops were still combined during the day.
It has been dry, providing good conditions to take off the crops. Most fields are swathed, while others are going to be straight combined. The countryside is swathed in dust and everywhere there is the roar of machinery working.
Let's hope the weather conditions hang on for awhile so the farmers can finish the harvest.
Big flocks of geese are slowly making their way south. They just love all the swaths of grain to munch on as they pass through. Many smaller birds have already left for warmer climates.
It is so quiet on our deck at the hummingbird feeders, as they too have travelled south. The time they spend in this area of Saskatchewan is brief. The arrived in early May and left in early September. We had as many as a dozen at the feeders at one time. They did a lot of fighting to all get their turn at the feeder and they did empty it quickly. It was a big job to keep syrup in the feeders. At least two met their end when they crashed into the big windows.
Now the yellow jackets and black and white wasps have taken over. It is so dry they are all looking for open water and nectar from the trees where the sapsucker pecked open holes that continue to drain. The did not seem to be too many honey bees about, but there was a host of bumble bees in the flowers. There are still a few butterflies about the yard.
