In the Community

The Borden library summer activity program for children aged 5 - 12 years started July 12 with Kandice Walker as the co-ordinator in charge of the program with teen helpers Graham Sargent and Nikita Pascoe.

Half way through summer already hoping yours has been a great one. Gardens and yards are looking fantastic with a great preliminary layer of moisture followed by some growing power provided by the heat.

Birthday greetings go out to Paul Kozlowski of North Battleford on the occasion of his 95th birthday. Greetings also to Margarey (Smith, Heaver) Jenny of British Columbia who has reached her 99th year.

Remember to mark on your calendar Oct. 6 for Maymont Legends. We're starting to round up the entertainment and found a young man at the Carlton Trail Jamboree who will be one of this year's entertainers.

I can't believe it. I just crossed another item off my bucket list. For a few years I've wanted to attend Windscape, the kite festival at Swift Current. This year we could make the trip. Windscape is amazing.

Water, a critically important subject for everyone, is not only an important life force; it conjures up notions of fluidity, flow, movement, power and peace.

For almost 20 summers, Norm Lehman, sporting a goatee, waxed moustache and crisp white uniform, marched at the head of the North Battleford parade with the North Battleford City Kinsmen Band setting the tone of the festivities with a lively Sousa mar

A few inches of welcome rain fell on the weekend after many days of dry hot weather. Crops, including the hay crop, were beginning to show signs of damage due to the dry conditions.

Our best wishes to Lyle Sutherland who left Waseca during the past weekend to make his home in Chilliwack, B.C. His house has already been sold to a new resident, Tracy Miller, who is busy doing some renovations on it.

The Avery came into being in 1919 - not any later than that. "She" was bought new for about $700 by a farm family near Climax in 1920. So, her work life would have started in the spring on 1920.