In the Community

After three days of dancing and over 100 individual dances, it was time to hand out awards.

Summer sports are well underway. A number of people from Waseca have joined with Maidstone to form a slo-pitch team, and others have joined to organize a ladies' fastball team.

After the Oddfellows departed in 1950, their former facility was converted into a fine community dance hall and renamed the Co-op Hall. The Co-op store was located below on the main floor.

Saturday, May 26 at the Chapel Gallery there will be a workshop for all artists who want to learn how to work through an "artist's block.

The Maidstone Drop In Centre March-April potluck noon lunch was held April 20 with 25 seniors in attendance. Seated at the birthday table were Mervin Burgess, Judith Holmberg, Rose and George Danychuck, Dororthy Kissick, Ray Hartman and Joan Smith.

It has been an eventful two weeks back from the Easter break. Over the break the Maidstone High School travel club went on an eventful, exciting 10- day tour of Italy and Greece. It was a great once in a lifetime experience.

Here we are in the beginning of May. The students are gearing up for track and field, class trips and are on the home stretch to final exams.

Colleen Wicks, local librarian, attended a combined Lakeland and Wheatland Library convention at the Travelodge in Saskatoon April 30 and found it to be informative.

When I sit here writing these articles, I just have to turn my head to look through a window which gives me a panoramic view of the countryside around here.

Monday morning dawned clear and sunny after a weekend of cloudy, showery, windy weather. The evening of May 5 a "super" moon was to be seen. However, here, we were not able to see the moon because of the clouds.