Local Arts

Is it saskatoon berries? Campfires at night? Long, stretching roads through yellow rapeseed fields, where sky meets land? Cold winters spent at Broncos home games, Tim Hortons coffee in hand? Getting caught behind a slow-moving combine on the highway

Zyg Kondzielewski was never interested in painting or photography until he took an art class in Bruno nearly 50 years ago. A doctor by trade, Kondzielewski said he "caught the bug" all those years ago and hasn't put down a paintbrush or camera since.

Maymont potluck and jam session June 22 - what an enjoyable night. Over 75 people attended and some danced. The music was great. We had over 15 musicians and I can't name them all because I don't want to miss any. Rose from Borden entertained us.

Humboldt may not have an international reputation for culture on par with Paris or Rome, but it is part of an increasingly multicultural province.

The Canada Day and City of North Battleford centennial excitement has died down, and many of us are looking to the lakes or our own backyards for a place to enjoy the hot weather forecasted.

The premier summer event in Humboldt has come and gone for another year. The Summer Sizzler took over Centennial Park this past weekend, with everything from the midway to concerts to the always-popular demolition derby entertaining the crowds.

Patricia Thomas's grandfather wrote the original manuscript more than 50 years after he returned from the trenches in France. These days it's kept in a large green binder, yellowed pages full of charts and words and memories.

Local music student Victoria Mahmood, 10, has been awarded a Royal Conservatory Gold Medal for the highest mark in Grade 2 Violin in Saskatchewan for 2012.

Humboldt's gay and lesbian community now has an organization to call its own. The inaugural meeting of the Humboldt chapter of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) was held on May 19 at the Westminster United Church.

Irene Kerr, Marilyn Stewart and Tillie Linkert were some of the apartment people who were on a bus trip to the Holes and Evergreen greenhouses in Edmonton, Alta. They enjoyed the day with all the other travellers.