In the Community

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.

"I don't think anything like this exists anywhere else in the world," said a former director of the Vienna Boys Choir at the conclusion of the 13th Summer School for the Solo Voice to be held in North Battleford.

What a kickoff to summer! Of course who could forget the storm of June 25? Like North Battleford, we suffered severe damage as well.

In addition to loving my husband and family I love country music and this weekend we have a fantastic time. Who needs Craven when you have the Carlton Trail Jamboree at Rabbit Lake? This festival is all Canadian country music.